Season 13 · 25 Jul 2025Naturalist ideology / Answers to questions - Dominique Pagani- 46:12The tool differs from the animal instrument by its typical form, which presupposes a model and prior thought before production.
Tool
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What Dominique Pagani says
Dominique Pagani approaches the tool through Hegel, for whom it is, along with memory and language, one of the three powers of spirit: there would be no spirit without the tool12. In the syllogism of labour, the tool is the existing, rational middle term between the worker and the object, passive towards the one, active towards the other3. When the worker and the object wear out, the tool remains. It is that in which labour has its permanence; it prevents a return to zero and grounds transmission and the progress of the productive forces45. He distinguishes the tool from the animal's instrument, which is found already there or modified: the tool has a typical form, an eidos, which presupposes an idea prior to production6. He sees in it a first victory over chaos and time. From 2021 on, notably in connection with artificial intelligence, he stresses one point: one does not put the tool on trial, but those who use it and their ends7.
- 1Freud1 Aug 2017 · 1:43:14
- 2La mondanité chez Clouscard - Le monde comme "ruse de la raison"22 Jul 2023 · 50:29
- 3Un chapitre de Marx écrit par Hegel • Q&A Philosophique • Dominique Pagani22 May 2021 · 19:24
- 4Café Marxiste - Travail et droit au travail20 May 2018 · 37:21
- 5La mondanité chez Clouscard - Le monde comme "ruse de la raison"22 Jul 2023 · 1:27:21
- 6L'idéologie naturaliste / Réponses aux questions - Dominique Pagani25 Jul 2025 · 46:12
- 7Heidegger ou la Panzer Philosophie • Q&A Philosophique • Dominique Pagani21 May 2021 · 12:13
Summary produced automatically from 28 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
Season 13 · 25 Jul 2025Naturalist ideology / Answers to questions - Dominique Pagani
Season 11 · 22 Jul 2023Worldliness in Clouscard - The world as "cunning of reason"
Talks · 27 Mar 2023Interview with Dominique Pagani, praxis and psyche
Season 11 · 28 Sept 2022And what about the subject in all this? Hölderlin, Mallarmé and Baudelaire- 1:48:26Technology is the world of means; it is the one who wields the tool who is responsible, not the tool.
Series · 22 May 2021A chapter of Marx written by Hegel • Philosophical Q&A • Dominique Pagani
Series · 21 May 2021Heidegger, or Panzer Philosophy • Philosophical Q&A • Dominique Pagani- 12:13A club or a particle accelerator: one does not put the tool on trial, but those who use it and their ends; return to the subject.
Season 9.2 · 12 May 20219 #21 Science and/or philosophy of "Artificial Intelligence"- 1:53:10One does not send the knife to prison; the more powerful the tool, the more it increases power, but it is up to the collective subject to decide between good and evil.
Season 9.2 · 14 Jan 20219 #12 How can sciences of history be real?- 1:15:50Evil does not lie in tools, the helmet or the ring, but in the one who uses them for purposes of exploitation.
Season 9.1 · 23 Oct 2020#2 Benefits and harms of amnesia...- 1:25:12The tool, of typical form, is the first victory over chaos and time; together with memory and language, it gives rise to spirit.
Series · 23 Aug 2019D. Pagani / M. Clouscard's reply to C. Morilhat (1987)- 45:07Unlike the instrument, found and modified, the tool imposes a typical form, the eidos, which repeats itself.
Season 5.1 · 6 Dec 2018#5.2 bis FaceBookLive / Questions (1)- 36:52The animal uses instruments already at hand; man produces a tool of typical form, which presupposes a fixed representation, an eidos.
Season 5.1 · 6 Dec 2018#5.2 ter FaceBookLive / Questions (2) following Workshop #5.2- 1:06:48The tool is the middle term that persists when the worker and the object have vanished; it alone allows progress and the stability of the human world.
Season 5.1 · 21 Nov 2018#5.2 The philosopher's Odyssey: Revolutionary thought
Talks · 2 Jul 2018Tribute to Domenico Losurdo- 2:01:57In the syllogism of labor, the worker and the object wear out, the tool remains for future generations and reacts on the one who holds it.
Talks · 20 May 2018Marxist Café - Work and the right to work
Season 3 · 1 Aug 2017#3.4 From Ulysses to Daedalus- 1:29:23The tool progresses endlessly because it serves an infinity; one judges the end pursued by whoever uses it, not the means.
Season 3 · 1 Aug 2017#3.2 From Ulysses to Daedalus- 21:48A middle term between the worker and the worked object, both worn down in the labor process; the tool remains and becomes the essential thing.
Season 3 · 1 Aug 2017#3.1 From Ulysses to Daedalus- 1:43:14In Hegel, the tool is the third power of spirit after memory and language: no spirit without the tool.
Series · 2 Feb 2016Hegel on the Beach 4/5- 35:20The instrument is the existing rational middle term between the worker and the object; it sustains labor and transmits the acquisitions of history.
Series · 29 Jan 2016What is to be done? 1/3- 21:20Middle term between the worker and the object, the tool outlives both and carries the progress of the productive forces.
Series · 8 Dec 2015Dominique Pagani on Michel Clouscard - The paths of praxis 2/2- 14:12For Hegel, the tool is a power of spirit. It is the existing rational middle term, at once passive and active, where work acquires its permanence.
Series · 23 Dec 2014I for Island- 3:09Robinson saves material tools (saws, hammers, nails) and theoretical tools (calendar, sextant).