Skip to content

(Sub-Saharan) Paths of PraxisSupport

Confession

aveu

Worked through in 3 videos · 4 passages.

Play the 4 passages in a row

Season 9.1 · 17 Dec 2020#9 Benefits and harms of amnesia...

59:55Phèdre is a tragedy of confession, a succession of confessions of which Phèdre's comes in nth position.

Season 2 · 1 Aug 2017#2.5 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?

27:04Phèdre is a tragedy of confession: once spoken, the crime becomes public and political.

Season 2 · 1 Aug 2017#2.6 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?

35:39In ancient ethics, what matters is not what one does but that one says it: speech made public becomes political and irretrievable.
1:37:38Without Theseus's center, the cascade of confessions releases every hubris.