«Филеб» Самсонова и «Филеб» Румера. Платон. Филеб (32с–40c) / Перевод с греческого И.Б. Румера. Подготовка текста и публикация О.В. Алиевой

Вопросы философии. 2024. Т. 12. С. 80–95.

Alieva O.

In the first quarter of the 20th century, Plato’s “Philebus” was fully translated into Russian by N.V. Samsonov, an associate professor at the Moscow University and the The Higher Courses for Women in Moscow. After his premature death in 1921, the text —supplemented with commentaries and, apparently, partially reworked — was published in 1929. Around 1917, I.B. Rumer also made a partial translation of the dialogue. The manuscript of this translation was preserved in the archive of G.G. Shpet, who planned to include an excerpt from the “Philebus” in a reader on the history of psychology. Rumer translated the part that interested Shpet in connection with Plato’s “psychology”: these are the pages 32c-40c, where the definitions of feeling, memory, recollection, desire, and pleasure are given. Here, we publish this translation for the first time, accompanied by an introductory article that notes the most important differences between the translations of Samsonov and Rumer. In particular, Rumer’s translation preserves the distinction between the “fact of rejoicing” and the content of joy, which will be fully problematized in the research literature only in the second half of the 20th century in connection with the problem of “false pleasures”. The publication of the translation allows us to complement the picture of the reception of Platonic texts in the intellectual culture of Russia in the beginning of the 20th century. We show, in particular, that both translators, close to the circle of G.G. Shpet, were engaged in scholarly discussions on psychology, and in general the “Philebus” was read rather as a dialogue on psychology than on dialectics or metaphysics.

Keywords: Платон, переводы, translations, Plato, Г.Г. Шпет, Филеб, Philebus, G. G. Shpet