Anaxagore

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mainly returns to Anaxagoras through an episode reported by Plato in the Phaedo1: Anaxagoras places nous, intelligence, at the origin of everything, as what orders the cosmos2, then disappoints Socrates by explaining the detail of things through air, weight, water or fire34. He takes up this point in various contexts: a reflection on philosophy in times of crisis, Greek mythology, a session devoted to Madame de Staël, and music in Plato, Rousseau and Hegel. The elements he cites vary from one session to another (air and weight; water, air and fire; hot and cold). He sums this up as a thinker who is "a finalist turned mechanist"5. Elsewhere, he notes that Anaxagoras is a Presocratic known through fragments, whose problems are still debated67, and that he is among the predecessors surveyed by Aristotle8.

1. 1De Copernic à Lénine: Révolution !28 Aug 2026 · 49:19
2. 2#6.1-1/2 - Prélude • D.Pagani / Lacan : Fonction et champs de la parole et du langage10 Nov 2019 · 1:26:54
3. 3#1.4 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?10 Dec 2015 · 44:55
4. 4Staël (Mme de )26 May 2019 · 1:15:06
5. 5Musicosophie 15. Platon, Rouseau, Hegel et la musique9 Feb 2021 · 11:47
6. 69 #16 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?4 Mar 2021 · 27:37
7. 7Mon éco-cabane dans la ZAD : autonomie ou aliénation ? • Q&A Philosophique • Dominique Pagani30 Apr 2021 · 8:15
8. 8Les fondements de la distinction platonicienne et aristotélicienne5 May 2026 · 53:29

Summary produced automatically from 9 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.