Being

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani opposes being to act. Being designates a stable, motionless nature, "like Mont Blanc" ("Das ist"), and it shares this trait with having, whereas man is not a having but a doing12. This is why he criticizes identitarians for placing everything in the order of being, whether negritude or "Corsitude," rather than in the order of the act3. With Hegel, he notes that pure being is identical to non-being and holds only through pure personality. For him, man is the being who can posit being as what he is not, which defines transcendence45. He recalls that Aristotle distinguishes the science of being qua being from the particular sciences. He also presents Heidegger's thesis that philosophy has abandoned the concern for being since Plato. In opposition to Heidegger, he maintains that being is not the origin but the result: it arises from the subject's confrontation with a reality that seeks to eliminate it6.

1. 1#7 Réponses aux questions (suite)3 Dec 2020 · 44:09
2. 2#7 Réponses aux questions (suite)3 Dec 2020 · 48:51
3. 3Négritude et négrologues / Adotevi par Pagani (2017)8 Jun 2017 · 31:27
4. 4La Phénoménologie de L'esprit2 Jul 2018 · 39:31
5. 5La Phénoménologie de L'esprit2 Jul 2018 · 1:07:49
6. 6La mondanité chez Clouscard : Aragon et la positivité du négatif29 Jun 2023 · 36:30

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