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TABLE DES MATIERES VOLUME I Avant-propos ............................................................................................ 17 Séance d’ouverture Mot de bienvenue du président du comité organisateur ...................... 27 Venant Cauchy, Montréal Allocution du vice-premier ministre du Québec ....................................... 29 Jacques-Yvan Morin Président d’honneur de la séance Allocution du recteur de l’Université de Montréal .............................. 33 Paul Lacoste Allocution du représentant de l’UNESCO ............................................ 37 André Bertels, Paris Allocution du président de la Fédération internationale des sociétés de philosophie ................................................................ 39 Alwin Diemer, Düsseldorf Conférence inaugurale Mutations culturelles et philosophie ..................................................... 45 Fernand Dumont, Québec Séance plénière I DÉTERMINATION PHILOSOPHIQUE DE L’IDÉE DE CULTURE Introduction ............................................................................................... 59 Évandro Agazzi, Fribourg Nature, Intellect and Culture ................................................................... 65 John Passmore, Canberra 644 PHILOSOPHIE ET CULTURE Détermination philosophique de l’idée de culture ...................................... 73 Emmanuel Lévinas, Paris Pluralité des cultures : l’enjeu égalitaire ...................................................... 83 Louise Marcil-Lacoste, Montréal Séance plénière II CULTURES ET VALEURS : PERSPECTIVES HISTORIQUES Cultures and Values in Historical Perspective ............................................ 89 Raymond Klibansky, Montréal Droit, Morale et Religion .............................................................................. 93 Chaïm Perelman, Bruxelles Language, Art and Culture ............................................................................. 99 Arthur C. Danto, New York Le rôle de la philosophie dans notre culture .................................................. 107 Vittorio Mathieu, Turin Séance plénière DI PERSONNES ET CULTURES DANS LE MONDE CONTEMPORAIN Introduction ...................................................................................................... 115 Vadim S. Semenov, USSR Mensch und Kultur in der heutigen Welt ......................................................... 119 Rita Schober, Berlin La culture hébraïque comme refoulé de la culture occidentale ................................................................................ 129 Éliane Amado Lévy-Valensi, Jérusalem Philosophy, Culture and Technological Progress ....................................... 143 J.M. Gvishiani and Vladimir V. Mshvenieradze, USSR Séance plénière IV PHILOSOPHIE ET CULTURE : PERSPECTIVES D’AVENIR Perspectivas del porvenir 163 Leopoldo Zea, Mexico TABLE DES MATIERES 645 Philosophie et culture : perspectives d’avenir ........................................... 167 Eugenio PucciarelÜ, Buenos Aires Philosophy and Culture : Perspectives for the Future .............................. 173 George Grant, Halifax L’actualité et la présence de la philosophie aux époques de changement culturel ........................................................ 183 Nikolaus Lobkowicz, München Symposium RÉALISME ET SCIENCE Science et réalisme ....................................................................................... 193 Yvon Gauthier, Montréal Le problème des ontologies régionales en science .................................. 195 René Thom, Paris TheRealistPictureandtheldealistPicture ................................................... 205 Hilary Putnam, Cambridge, USA The World we speak of, and the Language we live in .............................. 213 Bas C. van Fraassen, Princeton Symposium PROBLEMES DE LA RÉFÉRENCE Introduction .................................................................................................... 225 Willard Van Orman Quine, Cambridge, USA Reference and Sense ..................................................................................... 229 Dagfinn Fdllesdal, Stanford—Oslo A Problem in the Theory of Reference: The Linguistic Division of Labor and the Social Character of Naming ........................ 241 Saul Kripke, Princeton Direct Singular Reference: Intended Reference and Actual Reference ................................................. 249 Peter F. Strawson, Oxford 646 PHILOSOPHIE ET CULTURE CoDoque MARX Première introduction ..................................................................................... 257 Theodore Oiserman, URSS Second Introduction ...................................................................................... 259 Sava Ganovsky, Sofia Karl Marx: Some Preliminary Theses for a Tentative Balance Sheet After One Hundred Years ................................................ 263 Shlomo Avineri, Jerusalem Marxism and Class Reductionism ................................................................ 267 Frank Cunningham, Toronto L ’originalité de la philosophie de Marx ...................................................... 289 Jacques D’Hondt, Poitiers Marx et notre époque .................................................................................... 295 Ferenc Tökei, Budapest Colloque LAVELLE Introduction .................................................................................................... 303 Marc Renault, Trois-Rivières Mot de Claire Lavelle Luis Lavelle 1883-1983, En el Centenario de su nacimiento Devoto homenaje ....................................................................................... 305 Judith G. Garcia Caffarena, Rosario, Argentina Actualité de Louis Lavelle ......................................................................... 311 Alexis Klimov, Trois-Rivières Existence et participation ............................................................................ 315 Tarcisio Meirelles Padilha, Rio de Janeiro Lavelle et la mystique ................................................................................... 323 Karl Albert, Köln Louis Lavelle (juillet 1883—septembre 1951) 329 Antoinette Virieux-Reymond, Lausanne TABLE DES MATIERES 647 Colloque ORTEGA Y GASSET Ortega and Human Life: An Exploratory Essay ........................................ 335 William J. Kilgore, Waco The Centennial of Ortega y Gasset ............................................................. 341 Antonio Elias, Ambassador of Spain to Canada Concepto de Razön en Ortega ...................................................................... 345 Francisco Mirö Quesada, Perû Ortega, Today, as Seen from Catalonia ...................................................... 357 Xavier Rupert de Ventés, Barcelona Colloque JASPERS Karl Jaspers and the Prospect of a World Philosophy ............................... 363 Leonard H. Ehrlich, Amherst, USA Acceptability of Jaspers in Eastern Traditions ........................................... 369 R.C. Pandeya, Delhi Karl Jaspers en quête de l’Etre: Fonction créatrice de l’échec ................. 375 Jeanne Hersch, Genève Séance de clôture Allocution de Son Excellence le très honorable Edward Schreyer, Gouverneur général du Canada ............................................................. 385 Président d’honneur de la séance de clôture Conférence ..................................................................................................... 389 Pièges de la différence Paulin J. Hountoundji, Cotonou Discurso en la clausura del Congreso mundial .......................................... 397 Leopoldo Zea, México Address ........................................................................................................... 403 Ru Xin, Beijing, China Address ........................................................................................................... 407 Jdzsef Lukâcs, Budapest Conférence de clôture .................................................................................... 411 Venant Cauchy, Montréal Index 421 648 PHILOSOPHIE E J CULTURE VOLUME n Section IA CULTURE ET NATURE — CULTURE AND NATURE KULTUR UND NATUR — CULTURA Y NATURALEZA La determinaciön filosôfica de la idea de cultura ........................................ 9 Agustfn Basave, Mexico La non-culture comme exigence culturelle: rétrospective historique et perspectives actuelles ....................................... 13 Eisa Cardone, Italie Culture as a means for and an obstacle to communication .......................... 17 Jacinto Choza, Spain Claude Lévi-Strauss sur la nature et la culture ou les tentations du réductionnisme ............................................................ 23 Kiril D. Darkovski, Bulgarie Culture as Concrete Ontology ........................................................................ 28 James K. Feibleman, USA Déduction logique de la notion de culture ..................................................... 31 André Galimberti, Italie Vision filoseofica de la cultura desde la perspectiva actual ........................ 35 Luz Garcia Alonso, Mexico La dialectique de l’inné et de l’acquis ........................................................... 40 Georges Hélai, Canada Zweite Natur und Wertvermittlung ............................................................... 47 Peter Henriri, Italie Raison et culture : la téléologie de Kant ........................................................ 53 Patrice Henriot, France Die Kulturfunktion der Naturwissenschaften ..............................................
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