Le mythe de Socrate comme germe de l'Europe: Quelques traits de sa problématicité selon Jan Patočka
(2011) Revue Philosophique de Louvain — Vol. 109, n° 1, p. 7-25 (2011)
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- Setting out from the observation that Europe is today on the wrong track, Patočka posits the chorismos, as a critical gesture of the gap, which marks a distance in regard to that which is positively identical to itself. There results a constant requirement of the Socratic care of the soul inaugurated by Democritus, Plato and Aristotle, which branches out in three ways in that which is. Now, the figure of the absolutely truthful man who inaugurates Europe brings with it a movement of reciprocal reference between Socrates and the man-god, thus opening the way for an anthropology of excentricity or for a myth of breakthrough. Hence, the spiritual identity of Europe is above all understood as a germ or a heritage of the future (transl. by J. Dudley). © 2011 Revue Philosophique de Louvain.
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Frogneux, N. (2011). Le mythe de Socrate comme germe de l’Europe: Quelques traits de sa problématicité selon Jan Patočka. Revue Philosophique de Louvain, 109(1), 7-25. https://doi.org/10.2143/RPL.109.1.2067466 (Original work published 2011)