Laetitia Monteils-Laeng

Université de Montréal | UdeM · Department of Philosophy

Un passage du Sophiste (234a-e) de Platon semble avancer que sous l’effet de l’âge et des épreuves subies au cours de nos actions, nos opinions se transforment, nos illusions se dissipent. La Rhétorique (II, 13) d’Aristote semble à l’inverse dévaloriser l’expérience accumulée au cours de l’existence. Quels sont les effets du passage du temps sur ce...

The tripartite division of peoples described in chapter 7 of book VII of Aristotle's Politics identifies natural-born Greeks as the only people capable of free and well-ordered living in the polis. Ought we to infer from this passage that the underlying asymmetry between Greeks and non-Greeks somehow corresponds to the distinction, found in book I,...

Despite its "naturalism", Aristotle's ethics does not emphasize the goodness of child. Not in accordance with nature (kata phusin), impulsive movements of child must be rectified. Obsessed by pleasure, child is almost intemperate by nature. Because childhood is rational and human only potentially, Aristotle just underlines its weakness. Child is pa...

Dans les Lois de Platon, la danse ( choreia ) prend une place importante au sein de l’éducation. Substituant l’ordre aux gesticulations et aux mouvements désordonnés de l’enfance grâce au pouvoir du rythme, elle produit des effets apaisants mais aussi structurants au sein de l’âme agitée ou tourmentée. Don des dieux, elle enchante pour un temps le...

For the Stoics, the soul is a pneumatic and dynamic body, in permanent interaction with the outside world, Therefore, it is modified in various ways. In so far as its moral consistency is a function of its degree of firmness, on the basis of which criterion can one differentiate the morally insignificant psychic modalities from those which have a m...

VALUATION IN ROMAN STOICISM - Alexandre ( S.)Évaluation et contre-pouvoir. Portée éthique et politique du jugement de valeur dans le stoïcisme romain. Pp. 298. Grenoble: Éditions Jérôme Millon, 2014. Paper, €30. ISBN: 978-2-84137-300-0. - Volume 65 Issue 2 - Laetitia Monteils-Laeng

Socratic moral intellectualism proposes a realistic conception of action. Although they criticise it, Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics nonetheless retain this doctrine which considers freedom, responsibility and also psychic conflict, without hypothesising a faculty of will.

In the last pages of De Anima, Aristotle explores the conception of desire unified around a single psychic faculty, the desiring soul. For the rationally mature man, the desire (orexis) can be both rational and irrational. Furthermore, it's not the desire which gives to itself its own object. What does Aristotle invent with desire? A new faculty ab...

Sous quelles conditions – psychologiques, éthiques, voire cosmiques – le concept de consentement naît-il ? Sa thématisation philosophique, relativement tardive, peut être assignée aux stoïciens. Pourquoi sont-ce eux, et non pas Platon ou Aristote, qui le conceptualisent ? C’est la question à laquelle on s’efforcera de répondre en montrant comment u...