An original and insightful account of nature and our place in it from one of France’s preeminent historians of philosophy.
One of France’s preeminent historians of philosophy, Marcel Conche has written and translated more than thirty-five books and is recognized for his groundbreaking and authoritative work in Greek philosophy, as well as on Montaigne. In Philosophizing ad Infinitum , one of his most remarkable and daring books, Conche articulates a unique and powerful understanding of nature, inclusive of humanity, as infinite in time and space—ever self-renewing, eternal, and beyond complete understanding or control.
In today’s world the notion of infinity is at the core of the crisis humanity faces understanding nature. For the last two hundred years economies have been running at full speed, fueled by the implicit belief that natural resources are infinite; however, it is clear that they are not and that humanity needs to radically rethink the foundations of environmental and economic systems. Conche seeks to begin this rethinking, illustrating along the way insightful and sometimes unorthodox ideas about Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Bergson, and others.
“ Philosophizing ad Infinitum : this book paints a perfect picture of the life of Marcel Conche, a natural-born philosopher. His aptitude to question absolutely everything drove him to the pre-Socratics, even at an early age, in his relentless quest for the truth. With Montaigne, the thinker to whom he feels most akin, Marcel Conche stands tall as an exceptional figure in contemporary French philosophy, renewing and enriching a great philosophical tradition.” — Françoise Dastur, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis
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Conche, Marcel; Ledoux, Laurent; Bonne, Herman G.; Callicott, J. Baird

Marcel Conche, Herman G. Bonne, J. Baird Callicott, Laurent Ledoux

SUNY series in environmental philosophy and ethics, Albany, 2014

SUNY series in environmental philosophy and ethics, Albany, 2015

State University of New York Press, Albany, 2014

United States, United States of America

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出版日期: 2014.06

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Contents 10
Foreword 12
Translators’ Introduction 18
Why We Translated Marcel Conche’s “Philosopher à l’infini” 18
A Brief Introduction to Marcel Conche’s Life and Work 20
With and Without Marcel Conche—A Short Introduction to the Book 21
Preface to the English Translation 24
I. Flashback 26
The Foundation and Spontaneity of My Rejection of the Monotheist Creed 27
Being and Appearances 29
Duties toward Shadows 31
Where Pyrrho, Heraclitus, and Parmenides Meet 31
Getting to See the “Real Force” 32
Nature as Phusis, Nature as the Whole of Reality 34
II. Presence of the Infinite: Plato and Science in Opposition to the Infinite 36
Milestones 36
Infinity as the Most Important of Positivism’s Notions 37
Freedom from Daily Concerns Is a Necessity in Order to Contemplate the Infinite 38
Truth, the Philosopher’s Passion 40
The Rejection of Systems such as Hegelianism and the Search for Truth 41
The Two Ways to Philosophize: In the Narrow or in the Eternal Time 41
The Limits of the Dialogical Method: Leading to a Truth-Authenticity, not a Truth-Reality 43
Ideas as Realities and Mathematics to the Rescue 44
Principles and Mathematical Analysis Once Again to the Rescue 45
Numerical Ratios, Dialectic, and the Essence of Things 47
Plato and Science against the Multiplicity of the Cosmos 48
The Scientists’ Unending Dialogue with Nature 49
Science Blinds us from “Naked” Nature 51
III. With and Without Aristotle 54
Milestones 54
Aristotle’s Return to a More Immediate Approach to Nature 54
Aristotle’s “Qualitative” Rationalism and Determinism 55
Aristotle’s Apparent Contradiction Solved by His Overdetermination of Nature 56
Aristotle’s Methodical Finalism: Phusis as a “Fully under Control” Force for Organic Growth Leading to a Perfect Cosmos 56
Lucretius’s Nature as a Force of Love Guiding without Preconceived Finality 58
One Perfect Cosmos or a Multiplicity of Cosmoi? 59
Aristotle’s Nature: Potentially but not Actually Infinite 60
My Vision of Nature: Actually Infinite 61
Aristotle’s Vision of Beings: Reduced to a Finite Succession of Events 61
Reality, Action, Movements, and Events 63
The Movement as Such or as “Gesture” and the Events 64
Events that Delimit the Present and Those Which Do Not 64
IV. With and Without Chrysippus 66
Milestones 66
Reducing Beings to Events? 67
Unreal Events—Real Beings? 67
Aristotle’s Notions Renewed: Bodies Are Events; Reality Itself Is Event 68
The Eternity of Individual Forms Secured by Their “Eternal Return” 69
Accidents in the Successive Worlds that Do not Alter the Identity of Individuals but Distinguish Worlds 69
Different Events, All Compatible with Zeus’s Will 71
Only the Wise Is Free, Unaffected by External Events 72
Aristotelian and Heraclitean Visions Combined: Perfect Worlds but Forever Somewhat Different, Due to Changes in Small Events 73
Chrysippus’s Belief in Destiny: Obstacle to Consider Individual Creativity as a Force Allowing Individuals to Maintain a Stable Basis, Even Though They Constantly Change 74
V. With and Without Epicurus 76
Milestones 76
Epicurus’s Imagination and Common Sense 76
Epicurus’s Starting Point: The World, not the Whole 77
The Basis of Epicurus’s Explanation: The Atom 78
Epicurus’s Failure to Explain 79
Chance as the Origin of Everything 80
Capacity or Incapacity of the Cause to Explain the Effect 81
Reductionist and Emergentist Materialisms 82
VI. With and Without Montaigne 84
Milestones 84
Montaigne’s Humble but Ambiguous Way to See Reality as a Whole 85
Merge God and Nature 86
Montaigne’s Chasm with Epicurus 87
Nature’s Unity through God’s Purpose 87
Montaigne’s Meditation on the Infinite: Foundation of His Wisdom 88
Emptying Nature from the God-Person 90
The Stoical Side of Montaigne 92
Lao Tzu and the Fundamental Goodness of Reality 93
VII. A Moment with Omar Khayyam 96
Milestones 96
Where Khayyam’s and Montaigne’s “Nihilisms” Meet and Part 96
Khayyam’s Taste for Wine and Negative Feelings 99
Khayyam’s Courage as a Free Thinker 101
Khayyam’s Sad View of the Human Condition 103
Khayyam’s Presentiment of the Infinite 104
Khayyam’s Final Refuge in Love 105
VIII. Concerning Nietzsche 108
Milestones 108
Nietzsche’s Originality: His Emphasis on Eternity? 109
Eternal Recurrence of Events or Eternity of the Present? 110
Nietzsche’s Rejection of the Cyclical Recurrence of Events 111
Nietzsche’s Mythical Usage of the Eternal Recurrence 112
The Thought of Eternal Recurrence Creating the Overman 113
Nietzsche’s Denunciation of the Concept of the Whole as an Organism: Nature as Infinite 114
Nietzsche’s Rejection of the All Unity 116
Nietzsche’s Admission of the Infinite Plurality of Worlds 117
Eternal Recurrence of the Moment: Time Is Infinite 118
IX. My Path with and Without Bergson 122
Milestones 122
Science and Metaphysics 122
Unimportance of the Philosopher’s Life? 123
Absence of the Idea of Infinity: Open Door to God? 124
Real Duration: Incompatible with God? 126
Where Bergson Parts with Heraclitus 127
What We Share and What Divides Us 127
X. With Pascal and Without Him 130
Milestones 130
The Three Orders of Infinity 131
1. Infinity in the Order of “Bodies”: Enabling Man to Estimate Things According to Their True Proportion 132
2. Infinity in the Order of the Mind: Enabling Man to Be His World’s Self-Creator 135
3. Infinity in the Order of Love: Enabling Man to Open Up to Infinity 140
XI. With the “Old Sage” and Without Him 148
Milestones 148
Post-Bergsonian Nature: The Pre-Socratic Infinite? 149
Lao Tzu’s Perpetual Mutability: Heraclitus’s panta rhei Combined with Anaximander’s Phusis 150
The Tao: Liberating the Incomplete Man from Fixed Forms 150
The Tao: Renouncing to Fulfill Ourselves to Be in Accord with Nature 152
The Artists’ Way of Non-Action 153
The Philosophers’ Way of Non-Action 154
The Requirements: Ataraxia and Absence from Self-Preoccupation 156
The Philosopher and His Loved One: A Shared Tone of Happiness 157
Appendix: Correspondence between Marcel Conche and Gilbert Kirscher 160
1. Marcel Conche to Gilbert Kirscher 160
2. Gilbert Kirscher to Marcel Conche 162
Acknowledgment by Marcel Conche 167
3. Gilbert Kirscher to Marcel Conche 168
4. Marcel Conche to Gilbert Kirscher 171
Glossarium 174
Bibliography of Marcel Conche 188
1. History of Philosophy 188
2. Oriental Thought 188
3. Metaphysics 188
4. Ethics and moral philosophy 189
5. Literature 189
Notes 192
Index 210

"In Philosophizing ad Infinitum, one of his most remarkable and daring books, Conche articulates a unique and powerful understanding of nature, inclusive of humanity, as infinite in time and space - ever self-renewing, eternal, and beyond complete understanding or control. In today's world the notion of infinity is at the core of the crisis humanity faces understanding nature. For the last two hundred years economies have been running at full speed, fueled by the implicit belief that natural resources are infinite; however, it is clear that they are not and that humanity needs to radically rethink the foundations of environmental and economic systems. Conche seeks to begin this rethinkinf, inllustrating along the way insightful and sometimes unorthodox ideas about Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Bergson, and others.

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