Fernando Oliveira à l'horizon : introduction à l'étude de son oeuvre accompagnée de la traduction de son traité ''L'Art de la guerre en mer''

Fernando oliveira on the horizon. An introduction to a study of his work followed by a translation of his treatise : the art of naval warfare

• Auteur / Autrice : Jose Antonio Palos Pereira
• Direction : François Dagognet
• Type : Thèse de doctorat
• Discipline(s) : Philosophie
• Date : Soutenance en 1990
• Etablissement(s) : Lyon 3

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Oliveira, Fernão de (1507-1581?)

Résumé

Le but de ce travail est la recherche d'une ''unite'' possible entre trois themes apparemment heterogenes: la grammaire, l'ethique et la politique, et la construction navale, themes qui ont preoccupe oliveira, auteur portugais du seizieme siecle. Nous avons ainsi analyse les rapports entre le langage et la pensee et sous ce rapport general, d'autres themes, comme la phonetique ou encore le probleme de la signification. Avec l'etude de l'ethique et de la politique nous avons assiste a l'expansion de l'etat et au probleme de l'esclavage, themes face auxquels oliveira prend des attitudes du plus grand interet. Enfin, en abordant l'architecture navale, oliveira montr comment on passe d'une pratique routiniere a un art de la construction (ou a une science). Le passage n'en est pas pour autant consomme. Pour unir ces themes deux points essentiels: la mer comme ''type de destin'' et le pre-encyclopedisme comme souci intellectuel.

The object of the present work is a search for a possibility of ''unity'' between three themes apparently heterogeneous: grammar, ethics and politics, and naval architecture; the themes which were of a great concern to oliveira, a portuguese author of the sixteenth century. Thus we have analysed the relationship between language and mind, and within this general framework, we have looked up other subjects such as phonetics or even the problem of meaning. While examiming ethics and politics we have watched closely the expansion of state and the problem of slavery, the themes towards which oliveira adopts a philosophical standpoint of a great interest. Finally, oliveira tackles naval architecture to show how a routine practice changes into an art or a science of construction. The transistion from a shipwrigt to an architect is not for all that accomplished. In order to combine these themes two essential points should be stressed: sea as ''type of destiny'' and the pre-encyclopaedism as an intellectual concern.