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Apr 30, 2021 (posted viaProZ.com): A book translation of Xavier Léons 'The Philosophy of Fichte', Léons seminal 1902 work which introduced the German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte to French academia for the first time. It is a comprehensive overview of his philosophical doctrine, which, like his contemporaries, engages questions left over from Kant's 'Critiques' as concerns the question of the possibility of knowledge. Quite a mouth full, but very rewarding! Expect to find it in print and online sometime next year!...more »
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French to English: German Idealism: 'The Philosophy of Fichte' Xavier Leon General field: Art/Literary Detailed field: Philosophy
Source text - French Ainsi, dans la conscience du Devoir, nous trouvons déjà chez Kant la trace d’une intuition qui n’est pas une intuition sensible puisque la sensibilité est précisément ce que le Devoir comprime et combat comme étranger à la nature delà Raison, d’une intuition qui exprime l’Acte pur de la Raison, sinon à titre de réalisation immédiate, du moins à litre de devoir être ; or, cette intuition d’une Idéal qui de soi-même se réalise, l’intuition de l’idée produisant de son propre fond et par son acte propre une réalité conforme à elle, qu’est-elle sinon une intuition intellectuelle, l’intuition ou Acte de l’Esprit qui construit l’Être ? Et c’est précisément là ce qui
fait chez Kant la valeur éminente de la Moralité, le primat de la Raison pratique…
Translation - English As thus qualified, we already find within Kant’s doctrine the trace of this notion of an intuition which is not sensible, seeing as sensibility is precisely that which the Command compresses and combats as foreign to the nature of Reason. This is the trace of an intuition which expresses the Act of pure reason, if not as immediate realization, then as necessary being. Thus, this intuition of an Ideal –as that which realizes itself, this intuition of the idea producing, from its own substance and by its own activity, a reality which conforms to itself –what is it, if not an intellectual intuition, the intuition or the Act of the I which constructs Being (Être)? And it is exactly this notion which, within Kant’s doctrine, makes of Morality such an important feature, which makes of it the executive function, even, of practical Reason itself.
French to English: Manager Training, Conflict Resolution General field: Bus/Financial Detailed field: Human Resources
Source text - French Quel est le but de la gestion des conflits pour une organisation ? Pourquoi y avoir recours ?
Afin d’être efficace et performant pour atteindre ses objectifs, il est essentiel que chaque équipe, département et employé partagent une même vision des objectifs. Il est tout aussi important d’avoir des outils à sa disposition pour reconnaître et résoudre les conflits qui peuvent survenir ; une escalade des conflits entre employés peut rendre le travail en équipe et la coopération impossibles. Le conflit ne doit pas s’éterniser. Ces outils permettent de régler les conflits au plus vite ; de plus, ils permettent de dénouer un conflit, avant qu’il ne devienne un obstacle majeur au travail de l’organisation. Les conflits surviennent dans toute organisation, quelle que soit l’ONG, une commission budgétaire, un parti politique, la société ou le gouvernement.
La gestion des conflits se fait par un processus de planification afin d’éviter que les conflits se déclarent, autant que possible ; Il est important de discerner « conflit » et « compétition ».
Translation - English What is the purpose of conflict management for an organization, and why is it employed?
In order for an organization to be effective and efficient in attaining its objectives, it is essential that each team, department, and employee share the same vision of said objectives. Similarly, it is important to have the proper tools at one’s disposal in order to recognize and resolve those conflicts which may crop up, as an escalation of conflict between employees may render teamwork and cooperation impossible. Such a situation must not be left to fester. These tools help to find a quick resolution for such conflicts; and what’s more, they provide a method through which these conflicts might be de-escalated before becoming major obstacles to the work and functioning of an organization. Conflicts crop up in any organization, whether they be an NGO, a budgetary commission, a political party, society at large, or a government.
Conflict management is achieved through a planning process which aims as much as possible at minimizing the possibility of a conflict manifesting as such, and it is important to recognize the difference between “conflict” and “competition”.
French to English: Nadja -Andre Breton (1964) General field: Art/Literary Detailed field: Poetry & Literature
Source text - French Nous voici, au hasard de nos pas, rue du Faubourg-Poissonnière. Autour de nous on se hâte, c’est l’heure de dîner. Comme je veux prendre congé d’elle, elle demande qui m’attend. « Ma femme –Marié ! Oh! alors... »et, sur un autre ton très grave, très recueilli : « Tant pis. Mais...et cette grande idée ? J’avais si bien commencé tout à l’heure à la voir. C’était vraiment une étoile, une étoile vers laquelle vous alliez. Vous ne pouviez manquer d’arriver à cette étoile. A vous entendre parler, je sentais que rien ne vous en empêcherait : rien, pas même moi... Vous ne pourrez jamais voir cette étoile comme je la voyais. Vous ne comprenez pas : elle est comme le cœur d’une fleur sans cœur. » Je suis extrêmement ému. Pour faire diversion je demande où elle dîne.
Et soudain cette légèreté que je n’ai vue qu’à elle, cette liberté peut-être précisément : « Où ? (le doigt tendu :) mais là, ou là (les deux restaurants les plus proches), où je suis, voyons.
C’est toujours ainsi. » Sur le point de m’en aller, je veux lui poser une question qui résume toutes les autres, une question qu’il n’y a que moi pour poser, sans doute, mais qui, au moins une fois, a trouvé une réponse à sa hauteur : « Qui êtes-vous ? » Et elle, sans hésiter : « Je suis l’âme errante. » Nous convenons de nous revoir le lendemain au bar qui fait l’angle de la rue Lafayette et du faubourg Poissonnière. Elle aimerait lire un ou deux livres de moi et y tiendra d’autant plus que sincèrement je mets en doute l’intérêt qu’elle peut y prendre. La vie est autre que ce qu’on écrit. Quelques instants encore elle me retient pour me dire ce qui la touche en moi. C’est, dans ma pensée, dans mon langage, dans toute ma manière d’être, paraît-il, et c’est là un des compliments auxquels j’ai été de ma vie le plus sensible, la simplicité.
Translation - English We’d now arrived, through sheer chance from the path our steps had traced, at rue du Faubourg-Poissonniere. All around us people were hurrying; it was coming on dinner time. As I want to take my leave of her, she asks me whose waiting for me. “My wife.” “ –Married! Oh! so…” and, in a different, very serious tone, resigned. “Just as well. But…and this big idea? I’d just begun to see it so well. It really was a star, a destiny towards which you were heading. You couldn’t have failed to reach that star. To hear you talk, I feel that nothing can stop you; nothing, not even me…you could never see this destiny like I see it. You don’t understand: it’s like the heart of a flower without a heart.” I am extremely moved. To make a diversion, I ask her where she is dining. And suddenly that lightness that I’d not seen but in her, that freedom more precisely: “Where? (pointing a finger) Well there, or there (the two restaurants closest to us), where I am, understand. It’s always like that.”
Just as I’m going, I want to ask her a question, which sums up all the others, a question that there is no one but me to ask, without a doubt, but which –at least once –found an answer in her nobility; “Who are you?” And her, without hesitation; “I am the soul wandering.” We agree to meet up again the next day at a bar on the corner of rue Lafayette and faubourg Poissonière. She wanted to read one or two of my books and this will stick with me all the more, for I doubt she would have found them interesting. Life is other than what we write. A few moments more she kept me to tell me what it is in me that’s touched her. It’s in my thoughts, in my language, in all my manner of being, it seems it's (and it’s this which makes it one of the most sensitive compliments I’ve ever received in my life) my simplicity.
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