Contre les moralistes

introduction and notes by Rene Lefebvre, translated by Rene Lefebvre

Extent: 360 pages

Publisher: Les Belles Lettres

Subjects: Philosophy

Series: roue a livres

Language: French

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(June 2024)

ISBN: 9782251455570

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Avec ce Par-dela le bien et le mal sceptique s’acheve l’ouvrage majeur de Sextus Empiricus Contre les dogmatiques reste longtemps inedit en francais. L’auteur (IIe-IIIe siecle ap. J.-C.) y administre une therapie de choc : les valeurs n’ont pas de realite, la croyance morale est prejudiciable, il ne saurait exister d’art de vivre. Ainsi se trouve consommee, apres celles de la logique et de la physique, la ruine de la morale. On s’est etonne d’une telle radicalite, qui parait trancher avec l’habituel refus sceptique de juger. On s’est aussi demande, avec Aristocles de Messine, si n’etait pas assuree, du meme coup, la ruine morale du scepticisme lui-meme : De quelle mauvaise action n’aurait-il pas l’audace, celui qui croit qu’il n’y a vraiment rien de mauvais ou de honteux, de juste ou d’injuste ? . Le scepticisme contemporain n’est pas a l’abri d’une accusation analogue. L’ouvrage laisse entrevoir, pourtant, la perspective d’un bonheur sceptique. S’y dessinent les contours d’une morale paradoxale qui, tout en semblant se moquer de la morale, marie conformisme de fait et anticonformisme de principe.

Introduction and notes by Rene Lefebvre
Translated by Rene Lefebvre

"Pour etre sceptique, il ne faut pas seulement douter de tout, il faut encore s'opposer a tout. Ainsi Sextus Empiricus (IIe-IIIe siecle), a peu pres le seul philosophe sceptique dont l'oeuvre soit parvenue jusqu'a nous."
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