By Milan Kundera
ISBN-10: 0060932139
ISBN-13: 9780060932138
a tender lady in love with a guy torn among his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one in all his mistresses and her humbly devoted lover—these are the 2 whose tale is informed during this masterful novel. In an international during which lives are formed by means of irrevocable offerings and via fortuitous occasions, an international during which every thing happens yet as soon as, lifestyles turns out to lose its substance, its weight. accordingly, we believe "the insufferable lightness of being" not just because the outcome of our pristine activities but additionally within the public sphere, and the 2 unavoidably intertwine.
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Les textes cités ci-dessus dans la note 37. 41 Voir en particulier, et en des sens très différents, Raeder (1905), p. 356 ; Dixsaut (1985), pp. 181–182 ; Natorp (1994), pp. 348–349. 42 Cf. Migliori (1993), notamment pp. 486–499. introduction 15 rigoureux et continu qui permet de comprendre la logique du passage de l’une à l’autre. Cette logique, nulle source externe ne pourra jamais l’expliquer : elle réside dans le cheminement interne du dialogue, qu’il s’agit dès lors de reconstruire par et pour lui-même.
Mais cela ne veut pas dire que la recherche manque son but, car ce type d’hédonisme est le seul qui soit susceptible d’être réfuté33. 30 On comprendra dès lors que nous résistions à toute tentative d’assimiler Philèbe à un personnage historique quelconque : non seulement parce que sa position est également celle de la multitude des hommes et des animaux (cf. 66 e2–3, 67 b1–7), mais aussi et surtout parce qu’il s’agit avant tout d’un personnage dramatique dont le comportement ne prend sens que dans le contexte du dialogue.
171, d’autant moins que la distinction entre ces deux approches et leurs implications est déjà faite relativement à la vertu en Ménon, 73 e1–8. Sur cette différence, voir également Aristote, Premiers analytiques, I, 40, 49 b10–13. 22 Cette position est explicitement énoncée à la fin du dialogue, où elle est attribuée à Philèbe : Φ ληβ ς φησι τ ν δον ν σκοπ ν ρ ν π σι ζ οις γεγον ναι κα δε ν π ντας το του στοχ ζεσ αι, κα δ κα τ γα ν το τ α τ ε ναι σ μπασι, κα δ ο ν ματα, γα ν κα δ , ν τινι κα φ σει μι το τω ρ ς τε ντ χειν (60 a7–b1).
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