Cette thèse de doctorat est consacrée à l’édition critique de l’œuvre Métaphysique ou Première Philosophie rédigée par Vikentios Damodos à Chavriata de Céphalonie en 1736. Il s’agit de la première édition (editio princeps) de cette œuvre dont témoignent sept manuscrits de différents endroits en Grèce et ailleurs. Vikentios Damodos, enseignant de philosophie, a reçu son éducation en Italie et y a fait la connaissance des érudits importants de son temps. Le résultat de ces rencontres apparait à travers son œuvre foisonnante d’idées philosophiques et scientifiques nouvelles du Siècle des Lumières. Il devient ainsi un précurseur des Lumières néo-helléniques. Son intérêt pour l’éducation, la langue, l’instruction des grécophones, occupés par les Vénitiens et les Ottomans, afin d’atteindre le niveau des autres nations européennes rend cet érudit important pour l’histoire néo-hellénique. L’édition est précédée d’une introduction qui tente d’éclairer les aspects considérables de sa production et de sa contribution intellectuelle à la philosophie de la Grèce contemporaine. / This thesis is devoted to the critical edition of the work Metaphysics or First Philosophy written by Vikentios Damodos at Chavriata in Kefalonia in 1736. This is the first edition (edition princeps) of this work as evidenced by seven manuscripts in different places in Greece and elsewhere. Vikentios Damodos, philosophy teacher, was educated in Italy and has met there important scholars of his time. The result of these meetings appears through his work rich in philosophical and scientific ideas Enlightenment. It becomes a precursor of the Modern Greek Enlightenment. His interest in education, the language, the instruction of the Greeks, occupied at the time by the Venetians and Ottomans, in order to reach the level of the other European nations makes this scholar stand out in Modern Greek history. The edition is preceded by an introduction that attempts to illuminate the significant aspects of its production and its intellectual contribution to the philosophy of contemporary Greece.

A Sceptical Aesthetics of Existence: The Case of Michel Foucault Emmanouil Simos (Hughes Hall) Michel Foucault's genealogical investigations constitute a specific historical discourse that challenges the metaphysical hypostatisation of concepts and methodological approaches as unique devices for tracking metaphysically objective truths. Foucault's notion of aesthetics of existence, his elaboration of the ancient conceptualisation of ethics as an 'art of living' (a technē tou biou), along with a series of interconnected notions (such as the care of the self) that he developed in his later work, have a triple aspect. First, these notions are constitutive parts of his later genealogies of subjectivity. Second, they show that Foucault contemplates the possibility of understanding ethics differently, opposed to, for example, the traditional Kantian conceptualisation of morality: he envisages ethics in terms of self-fashioning, of aesthetic transformation, of turning one's life into a work of art. Third, Foucault employs these notions in self-referential way: they are considered to describe his own genealogical work. This thesis attempts to show two things. First, I defend the idea that the notion of aesthetics of existence was already present in a constitutive way from the beginning of his work, and, specifically, I argue that it can be traced in earlier moments of his work. Second, I defend the idea that this notion of aesthetics of existence is best understood in terms of the sceptical stance of Sextus Empiricus. It describes an ethics of critique of metaphysics that can be understood as a nominalist, contextualist, and particularist stance. The first chapter discusses Foucault's late genealogy of the subject. It formulates the interpretative framework within which Foucault's own conceptualisation of the aesthetics of existence can be understood as a sceptical stance, itself conceived as nominalist, contextualist and particularist. As the practice of an aesthetics of existence is not abstract and ahistorical but the engagement with the specific historical circumstances within which this practice is undertaken, the second chapter reconstructs the intellectual context from which Foucault's thought has emerged (Heidegger, Blanchot, and Nietzsche). The third chapter discusses representative examples of different periods of Foucault's thought -such as the "Introduction" to Binswanger's "Traum und Existenz" (1954), Histoire de la folie (1961), and Histoire de la sexualité I. La volonté de savoir (1976)- and shows in which way they constitute concrete instantiations of his sceptical aesthetics of existence. The thesis concludes with responses to a number of objections to the sceptical stance here defended.

Spinoza, parce qu’il est à la pointe de la pensée scientifique de son époque, Freud, parce qu’il prétend fonder une nouvelle science de la nature sans se référer spécifiquement aux sciences humaines, adhèrent à un modèle épistémologique issu de la science déterministe classique. En étendant son application à l’âme humaine, tous deux ont, chacun à sa manière, bouleversé la conception de l’unité psychophysique de l’individu et proposé de nouveaux modèles de compréhension de ses rapports avec les autres et avec le monde.Or, partir de la question du corps pour remonter progressivement jusqu’à celle du mal, point névralgique de la pensée de la liberté, permet de mettre en évidence ce qui les rapproche et ce qui les sépare. Si, en situant la source de la destructivité à l’intérieur de la psychè et en dialectisant les différentes tendances qui la constituent, Freud adopte une perspective non spinoziste, sa conception de la mémoire, de la représentation, du langage, du rêve et du délire, se rapproche beaucoup de celle de Spinoza et permet d’éclairer aussi bien les virtualités que les points explicites de son système.Inversement, Spinoza, par les choix doctrinaux qui marquent l’évolution de sa pensée comme par les stratégies pédagogique et éthique qu’il met à l’œuvre dans ses textes, produit une illustration en acte de ce qui favorise la puissance de l’âme et de ce qui l’entrave. Sans créditer le mal d’une essence positive, il reconnaît néanmoins à ses principales figures : finitude, privation, crime, une efficience historique, dont la compréhension peut fonder une vigilance prophylactique. / Spinoza, at the top of the scientific thought of his time, and Freud, intending to found a new science of nature without specifically referring to human sciences, adhere to an epistemological model coming from the classical determinist science. Extending its application to the human mind, they both have, each in their own way, drastically changed the conception of the psychophysical unity of the individual and proposed new models of understanding his relationships with the others and the world.And yet, starting with the question of the body to progressively reach the question of evil so problematic for the thought of freedom makes it possible to reveal what separates and brings them closer. Setting sources of destructivity inside the psyche and giving a dialectical representation of its different constituent motions, Freud adopts a non-Spinozist perspective. But his conception of memory, representation, language, dream and delirium, gets closer to that of Spinoza and allows to throw light on potentialities as much as on the explicit points of his system. Conversely, Spinoza, marking the evolution of his thought by doctrinal choices and using pedagogical and ethical strategies in his texts, gives an acting illustration of what favours and hampers the power of the mind. Nevertheless without giving a positive essence to evil, he recognizes the historical efficiency of its main figures: finiteness, deprivation and crime whose understanding can found a prophylactic vigilance.

Nous analysons le dernier ouvrage écrit par Pierre Bayle, les Entretiens de Maxime et de Themiste (1707), où il livre un combat de plume ultime avec deux théologiens réformés, Jean Le Clerc et Isaac Jaquelot. Il s’agit d’une querelle entamée après la publication du Dictionnaire historique et critique (1697) de Bayle, et dont tous les ouvrages directement concernés sont aussi examinés. À partir du problème du mal et du péché, Bayle formule une critique à la théologie chrétienne visant à mettre en évidence la faiblesse des arguments rationnels qui doivent l’affirmer. Les seules forces de la raison ne suffisent pas à éclairer les dogmes qui forment la religion, et il faut avoir recours à la lumière de la foi, à la Bible, pour les accepter. De l’étude de cette argumentation nous concluons que, pour Bayle, la religion est une question privée, qui ne se prête pas vraiment au dialogue philosophique. / We analyze the last work written by Pierre Bayle, the Entretiens de Maxime et de Thémiste (1707), where he opposes for the last time two Arminian Theologians, Jean Le Clerc and Isaac Jaquelot. Their quarrel started with the publication of Bayle’s Dictionnaire historique et critique (1697) and continued until his death in 1706. By pointing to the insoluble problem of evil and sin, he proposes a refutation of rational arguments that attempt to prove Christian Theology. We examine all the writings involved in this controversy and review in great length its arguments. Bayle shows that Christianity is unable to demonstrate its dogmas by reason, and claims that only faith can legitimate them. Therefore it is concluded that religion for Bayle belongs to the private sphere, and cannot be rationalized through a philosophical dialogue.

The thesis deals with the Czechoslovakian philosophy in the nineteen-sixties. It focuses not only to its historical description but intends to enter its philosophical thinking from inside and analyse its principal categories. Especially it focuses on the category of work and examines its various formulations, developed in different theoretical perspectives of Czechoslovakian philosophers. This allows distinguish these perspectives in their similarities on one hand and differences on the other. The thesis notably focuses on so called "Hegelian movement" and its evaluation of category of work. This movement, which is in fact the Czechoslovakian variation to the philosophy of praxis, formulates the category of work in its philosophical meaning, i. e. as an ontological category decisive for an origin of the reality and human being. It was originally Hegel, who developed this meaning of category, and Czechoslovakian Hegelian movement continued in developing his ontology adopted through Marx. The Czech philosophers enriched it with aspects of socialistic humanism. The thesis is divided into three parts. The first part explains historical conditions of philosophical scientific performance in Czechoslovakia. The second interprets the texts of Czechoslovakian Hegelian philosophers and their expositions of category...

The thesis deals with the Czechoslovakian philosophy in the nineteen-sixties. It focuses not only to its historical description but intends to enter its philosophical thinking from inside and analyse its principal categories. Especially it focuses on the category of work and examines its various formulations, developed in different theoretical perspectives of Czechoslovakian philosophers. This allows distinguish these perspectives in their similarities on one hand and differences on the other. The thesis notably focuses on so called "Hegelian movement" and its evaluation of category of work. This movement, which is in fact the Czechoslovakian variation to the philosophy of praxis, formulates the category of work in its philosophical meaning, i. e. as an ontological category decisive for an origin of the reality and human being. It was originally Hegel, who developed this meaning of category, and Czechoslovakian Hegelian movement continued in developing his ontology adopted through Marx. The Czech philosophers enriched it with aspects of socialistic humanism. The thesis is divided into three parts. The first part explains historical conditions of philosophical scientific performance in Czechoslovakia. The second interprets the texts of Czechoslovakian Hegelian philosophers and their expositions of category...