Finality

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani places finality outside the cognitive order: natural science never brings in an end, whereas quality, too much and too little, the useful and the useless only make sense in relation to a presupposed aim. For him, reflecting on the end is the object of philosophy, while the means remains axiologically neutral12. The end is what is not there and can only be signified: it is meaning3. He links it to the subject, since only someone can represent an end to themselves; neither God nor the pebble pursues one, and it is found in man45. He calls the finalism attributed to nature a "cognitive catastrophe" and sees in it man's alienation of his own finality, while retaining, with Hegel and Marx, reason as an operation in accordance with an aim67. He finds the end in the form of a tool, in the function of an organic totality, in capital determining itself from its end, and in the "finality without representation of an end" of aesthetic pleasure.

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