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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...

Pourquoi il faut traiter autrui á l’égal de soi-même. Interprétation et charité en anthropologie

Gérard Lenclud (2002)

Philosophia Scientiae

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This article defends the position that anthropological interpretation is necessarily charitable to others. Nevertheless, given that charity seems to imply that others should systematically be absolved–in advance–of the mistakes they (like the interpreter) are likely to make and that these mistakes are significant (just as those of the interpreter are), it may be preferable to evoke a “Postulate of Equality” rather than the “Principle of Charity”.

«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...