La question de l'étonnement vue à travers certains thèmes de la pensée philosophique occidentale y correspondant
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Abstract EN:
The question of astonishment as it is reased here is based on a study of different representations of the phenomenon; thoses of plato and aristotle for the grek philosophers, thoses of descartes, spinoza, malebranche for the moderns philosophers and thaht of kant. Following upon this mostly descriptive study is a critical analysis which attempts to distinguish the fundamental nature of the phenomenon of astonishment, both in the sensitive and the rational dimensions of its articulation. Upon the fundamental nature, (which is, for men, his openess to and participation in the metaphysical dimension of his own being), depends the primordial epistemological role that the phenomenon exercises in so far as it determines will. The study, in its finals pages, raises the issue of the actuel function of astonishment in the question of being as seen by heidegger, while recognizing in it the primordiality of the question of astonishment.
Abstract FR:
La question de l'etonnement se trouve ici posee a partir de l'etude de diverses representations du phenomene; celles de platon et d'aristote pour les philosophes grecs, celles de descartes, spinoza, malebranche pour les philosophes modernes et celle de kant. A cette etude surtout descriptive fait suite une analyse critique qui tente de degager le caractere fondamental du phenomene de l'etonnement, tant dans la dimension sensible et rationnelle de son articulation. De ce caractere fondamental, (lequel est ouverture et participation pour l'homme a la dimension metaphysique de son etre), depend le role epistemologique primordial qu'opere le phenomene en ce qu'il determine la volonte. L'etude aborde en finale la fonction actuelle de l'etonnement dans la question de l'etre chez heidegger, en y reconnaissant la primaute de la question de l'etonnement.