Displaying similar documents to “Pourquoi il faut traiter autrui á l’égal de soi-même. Interprétation et charité en anthropologie”

L’art de faire crédit ou comment ne pas prendre les autres pour des imbéciles

Isabelle Delpla (2002)

Philosophia Scientiae

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The principle of charity is here analysed as one form of interpretive benevolence whose aim is to give others credit and not to take them for idiots. In this very aim, however, it is in competition with other maxims, each of which fights against one kind of stupidity. That being the case, we must criticize the false alternatives between charity and contempt, on the one hand, and charity and nonsense, on the other. The principle of charity cannot be granted legitimacy as a principle specific...

L’idée d’un sens commun

Vincent Descombes (2002)

Philosophia Scientiae

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This article, which emphasizes the hermeneutic origin of the principle of charity, attempts to resituate the contemporary theories within a tradition of reflection about the anthropological problem (how can we claim to reach an understanding of other types of human lives?). These doctrines actually propose a philosophy of common sense, in other words a solution to the problem of exercising rationality. Due to a failure to relate this common sense to any particular form of social life,...

«Si un lion...»

Jean Bazin (2002)

Philosophia Scientiae

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The philosophical language game of radical translation, which consists of splitting the atoms of linguistic behavior in a quasi-experimental way, amounts to the construction of a non-situation wherein one renders oneself incapable of understanding the uses of language. The debate needs to be reoriented: we need to shift the focus from the problem of meaning (or the pairs meaning/translation and meaning/belief) to accounting for action. If there is charity, it consists not so much in...

Soyons charitables, mais pas trop !

Ruwen Ogien (2002)

Philosophia Scientiae

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In this paper, I insist on two limits of the principle of charity. 1) The principle is supposed to help us solve the problem of the observational under-determination of our attributions of beliefs and desires. But it fails on that ground. The principle rules out attributions of beliefs and desires that are incompatible with the principle, but it cannot help us decide between incompatible attributions of beliefs and desires that are compatible with the principle; 2) Strong versions of...

Quine, entre Lévy-Bruhl et Malinowski

Sandra Laugier (2002)

Philosophia Scientiae

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The article examines the anthropological relevance of Quine’s indeterminacy of translation thesis, and shows how this thesis questions relativism, but also a species of universalism. This is demonstrated through an analysis of Quine’s critique of the idea of prelogicity, in connection with which he specifically devised the principle of charity, which was later taken over by Davidson. Examining the uses and scope of this principle, as well as comparing it to the claims of Lévy-Bruhl,...

La rationalité ouverte. “From swords to words”

Alain Boyer (2007)

Philosophia Scientiae

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Le maître mot de la philosophie poppérienne est l’ouverture. Cette conception de la rationalité, fondée sur le thème de la faillibilité, échappe à la mise en question de la clôture de la raison moderne dominatrice. La rationalité n’est pas tant un ensemble de techniques qu’une attitude morale d’ouverture à l’autre, reposant sur l’idée qu’à la violence peut être substitué un jeu polémique, la discussion critique, codifiée par des règles. «Vous pouvez avoir raison et je peux avoir tort,...

«Comment ne pas être charitable dans l’interprétation»

G. E. R. Lloyd (2002)

Philosophia Scientiae

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The first part of this paper expresses some reservations about certain ways in which the principle of charity has been employed. Some deflationary remarks criticize the application of some pet western ideas to the analysis of other cultures, namely mentalities, metaphors, mythology. I turn next to suggest that, contrary to the claim of the defenders of the principle of charity, intelligibility cannot be a universal assumption considering the various roles that deception and the cultivation...

Le pragmatisme en sémantique et en épistémologie contemporaines

Michael Esfeld (2005)

Philosophia Scientiae

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L’objectif de cet article est de présenter une position dans le cadre du pragmatisme contemporain : le but est d’esquisser comment une théorie pragmatique peut expliquer la détermination du contenu conceptuel de nos croyances. La première partie expose la motivation d’une théorie pragmatiste du contenu conceptuel — à savoir notamment apporter une solution au problème de suivre des règles. La deuxième partie introduit l’idée d’une sémantique inférentielle. La troisième partie retrace...