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 happiness,  and  purity.  Candide  is  fascinated  by  the  kingdom  and  inquires  about  their  religion…   At  length  Candide,  having  always  had  a  taste  for  metaphysics,  made  Cacambo  ask  whether  there  was   any  religion  in  that  country.    The  old  man  reddened  a  little.   “How  then,”  said  he,  “can  you  doubt  it

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Latin translations influenced by ancient and Arab commentaries, notably those of Avicenna and Averrhoes. It was accepted that, outside the truths revealed by Holy Writ, Aristotle’s logical texts (but not his writings on natural science, ethics and metaphysics, all judged ‘pagan’) contained the best of what human reason, uninspired by Christianity, could produce. Both teaching and study were conditioned by respect for the authority of ancient writers and the church fathers. Even so, thinking was a rigorous

water, and the words which we pronounce have no meaning except through the silence in which they are bathed. We seek to know that we may learn not to knowledge, that which can be pure reason, know " known by the being after metaphysics, " indispensable on all this side of the " frontiers," precisely what is least since least essentially ourselves. sess a self essential to us, " pos- We more profound and more boundless, self . . than the

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celebrate 350 years of the Royal Society, Britain's scientific national academy. The contributors include Margaret Atwood, Steve Jones, Richard Dawkins, James Gleick, Richard Holmes, and Neal Stephenson, among many others, on subjects ranging from metaphysics to nuclear physics, from the threatened endtimes of flu and climate change to our evolving ideas about the nature of time itself, from the hidden mathematics that rule the universe to the cosmological principle that guides "Star Trek." STANDARD

MARILLIER, Remarques sur le mécanisme de l'attention (Revue philosophique, 1889, t. XXVII). - Cf. WARD, art. Psychology de I'Encyclop. Britannica, et BRADLEY, Is there a special activity of Attention ? (Mind, 1886, t. XI, p. 305). HAMILTON, Lectures on Metaphysics, t. I, p. 247. WUNDT, Psychologie physiologique, t. Il, p. 231 et suiv. (F. Alcan, éd.). MAUDSLEY, Physiologie de l'esprit, p. 300 et suiv. - Cf. BASTIAN Les processus nerveux dans l'attention (Revue philosophique, t. XXXIII, p. 360 et suiv.). W

Political Theory 12, 1984, p. 5-27. Stokes, Michael C, Plato's Socratic Conversations. Drama and Dialectic in Three Dialogues, Baltimore [MD], Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. Kahn, Charles H., « Plato's theory of desire », Review of Metaphysics 41, 1987/1988, p. 77-103. Santas, Gerasimos, Plato and Freud. Two Theories of Love, Oxford, Blackwell, 1988. Price, A.W., Love and Friendship in Plato and Aristotle, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1989. Turano, Gianfrancesco, « L'alimentazione nel

programs. He claims that such attempts to produce certainty are totalizing moves that endeavor to close off the possibility of the ethico–political. To understand what this means it is necessary to examine the basics of Derrida’s critique of Western metaphysics, or ‘logocentrism’. Logocentrism, a way of reasoning that is fundamental to contemporary thought, specifically that derived from the European world, operates through the production of dichotomies such as inside/outside, man/woman, memory/forgetting

au Pythagorisme est peutêtre plus secondaire qu'on ne le dit souvent. En réalité, c'est la réflexion critique sur l'Éléatisme qui est, comme le montrent le Parménide et même le Théétète, à Contre cette interprétation, cf. W. D. Ross, Aristotle's Metaphysics, p. LXVII sqq., et l'édition citée de la Métaphysique de Théophraste, p. 58. 25 95 l'origine de la réforme: contre lui il s'agit de sauvegarder la multiplicité et le devenir, l'apparence et l'erreur; autrement dit, de faire à l'Héraclitéisme