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L'usage des amphibologies dans les dialogues de Platon : essai sur l'interprétation pré-philosophique de la différence
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Auteur / Autrice : Anne Gabrièle Wersinger
Direction : Pierre Aubenque
Type : Thèse de doctorat
Discipline(s) : Philosophie
Date : Soutenance en 1992
Etablissement(s) : Paris 4

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The philosophical discourse of the main characters of Plato's dialogues (Socrates, the stranger, the Athenian or Timaeus) is perturbed, in its logic, by the presence of amphibologies. There are two types : those that are simply used to weaken the dialectical resources or refute the person being addressed and those that elaborate directly philosophemas. A careful perusal of these dialogues without concentrating too much on the credit traditionally paid to the main characters and reconsidering the underlying testimonies of the other characters (sophists, rhetoricians and poets such as homer) allow the revelation of the pre-philosophical interpretation of the difference in which logic, mathematics, rhetoric and ethics are deeply interlocked. Such a model of difference characterized by the medley (poikilon) can be seen in logic where the amphibolies split up the topic, in rhetoric where are so justified pre-discursive procedures of statement (catalogue, non-logical comparison, praise, nominal-dieresis, putting on a stage of the world into a metrical sentence), in ethics where it inspires agonistical ways of being based on shame and pity (aidos), in the arts in which harmony is based on atomism, both impressionistic and mimetic, in mathematics in which the methods (anthyphairesis, arithmogeometria) privilege a contemplative and yet sensuous (aesthesis) will. . . With this in view, the presence of amphibologies signalizes the resurgence of amphibolic structures in the discursive methods of representation.