Sophia

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani understands sophia as a double term, meaning both knowledge and wisdom. He stresses that these two notions are disjoint and overlap only in part: this, in his view, is what "makes the philosopher limp"1. Knowledge concerns the true and the false, a discourse that conforms to its object; wisdom is turned towards action, towards good and evil2. He restates this distinction as two questions: "what can I know?" and "what ought I to do?". On the second, the scholar is no better placed than the sage3. Philosophy, the love of sophia, lies precisely in the linking of the two terms4: the philosopher seeks to join the sage and the scholar through a theoretical detour5. He develops this reading from Plato in 2015 and keeps it without notable change in the sessions of 2017, 2021 and 20236.

1. 1#1.3 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?14 Sept 2015 · 2:10
2. 2#2.8 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?1 Aug 2017 · 4:08
3. 3Ni gauche ni droite ? Islamo gauchisme ?17 Oct 2023 · 59:34
4. 4Platon14 Sept 2015 · 8:33
5. 5Platon14 Sept 2015 · 36:25
6. 69 #11 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?7 Jan 2021 · 1:05:42

Summary produced automatically from 6 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.