Victor Goldschmidt (philosopher)
Victor Goldschmidt was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy.
Born in Germany, he came to France in 1933. Before the war he studied at the Sorbonne and at the École pratique des hautes études under Henri Marguerite.
Goldschmidt "made his name with the publication of his thesis, Les Dialogues de Platon, in 1947", for which Martial Gueroult was among the members of his examining committee. He taught at the University of Rennes from 1956 to 1966, then at Clermont-Ferrand from 1966 to 1976 and finally in Amiens until his death.
The manuscript of Goldschmidt's book on Aristotle's views of time was delivered to the editor on the eve of his death.
A volume was published in his memory as Histoire et Structure.
Though Goldschmidt is often considered a disciple of Martial Gueroult, Jacques Brunschwig has reconsidered their relationship, noting that the second edition of Godschmidt's thesis acknowledged a general debt to the "rigor" of Émile Bréhier rather than Gueroult.
Works
Essai sur le Cratyle, 1940.Les Dialogues de Platon, 1944. 2nd ed., 1963.Le paradigme dans la dialectique platonicienne, 1947Le Système stoïcien et l'idée de temps, Paris, Vrin, 1953.- 'A propos de Descartes selon l'ordre des raisons ', Revue de métaphysique et de morale, 1957.
- Platonisme et pensée contemporaine, 1970.
- Questions platoniciennes, 1970.
- Anthropologie et politique, les principes du système de Rousseau, 1974.
- La doctrine d'Epicure et le droit, 1978.
- 'Remarques sur la méthode structurale en histoire de la philosophie ', in Métaphysique, Histoire de la philosophie. Recueil d'études offert à Fernand Brunner à l'occasion de son 60ème anniversaire, Neuchâtel, 1981, p. 213-240.
- 'Préface' and 'La théorie épicurienne du droit', in Jonathan Barnes et al., Science and Speculation: studies in Hellenistic theory and practice, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.Temps physique et temps tragique chez Aristote: Commentaire sur le Quatrième livre de la Physique et sur la Poétique.