Knowledge

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani approaches knowledge along two lines. The first is epistemological. He contrasts the knowledge of objects, which questions the sun for example, with the discourse that seeks to know the subject itself1. The aim is then to raise the "know thyself" to a logical rigour comparable to that of the hard sciences2. With Aristotle, he recalls that there is knowledge only of the general and existence only of the individual: to know is to classify, whereas the individual has an infinity of determinations3. The second line concerns the relation between knowledge, innocence and suffering. Regarding Kleist's text on the marionette theatre, he notes that knowledge usually prevents grace, but recovers it by passing through an infinite. So one should not ask forgiveness for having passed into knowledge, but eat of its fruit again45. In his sessions on the Grail, he says that knowledge hurts because it takes away illusions. Yet it alone can remove the suffering it brings, with no going back: the hand that wounds is the one that heals6.

1. 19 #11 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?7 Jan 2021 · 1:14:32
2. 29 #11 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?7 Jan 2021 · 23:33
3. 3#4 Nomade et sédentaire - Le cas Nerval4 Oct 2021 · 42:22
4. 4Kleist « Sur le théâtre de marionnettes » - Pagani - Lectures sur le vif29 Sept 2023 · 32:28
5. 5Kleist « Sur le théâtre de marionnettes » - Pagani - Lectures sur le vif29 Sept 2023 · 39:41
6. 6La quête du Graal, bondieuserie ou sacrilège ?1 Apr 2024 · 1:58:26

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