Categoria: Barbara Cassin
CASSIN, Barbara. Vocabulaire européen des philosophies. Dictionnaire des intraduisibles. Paris: Seuil, 2004
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semeion (σημεῖον)
“Sign,” as a being or thing, encompasses a great diversity of fields. If, in an Augustinian perspective, every sign is first of all a thing, a thing is not necessarily a sign, even if it can always, to an extent, become one ( De doctrina Christiana, 1.2.2 ); thus, for example, for Christians the events recorded in…
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polis
Excerto traduzido de CASSIN, Barbara (ed.). Dictionary of Untranslatables. A Philosophical Lexicon. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014 (epub) A dificuldade de traduzir polis é menos uma questão de linguagem do que de história. Nenhuma entidade política moderna é idêntica à antiga polis. Geralmente vivemos em estados, cada um dos quais com soberania legal sobre uma…
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theologia
Some of them are old, such as “theology.” Plato coins theologia [θεоλоγία] to refer to the way in which the gods should be spoken of, one more dignified than what is later called “mythology” ( Republic II, 379a ). The word “theology” keeps that meaning for a long time, as found in Pascal: “The poets made a…
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eleutheria
Excerto de [CASSIN, Barbara. Vocabulaire européen des philosophies. Dictionnaire des intraduisibles. Paris: Seuil, 2004, p. 341] O que é surpreendente no léxico grego da liberdade é, antes de tudo, sua extrema riqueza. À noção fundamental de eleutheria são adicionados, de fato, os adjetivos hekôrt [ἑκών], hekousios [ἑκούσιος] (oposto: akôn [ἄκων]), “voluntariamente”, o primeiro referindo-se antes…
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skepsis
But the fact that in modern Greek the ancient terminologies of thought ( noêsis [νόησις] ) and reflection ( skepsis [σϰέψις] ) have been fused together leads to more palpable difficulties. Skepsis, a concept discussed by the Skeptical school, leads to paradoxes in modern texts, when we speak, for example, of “the thought of the Skeptics”( η σϰέψη τῶν σϰεπτιϰών )…