Darwin

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani refers to Darwin mainly for the theory of evolution and the gradual passage from nature to man1. He points out that this theory was accepted only little by little2. He counts it among the "wounds" dealt to mankind: we come from the ape3. He sees it as a gain to be defended today, along with Galileo and Newton4. He sets a limit, however: evolution exists, but it is not history5. In the same way, linking the smile to the teeth that mammals bare is right as to the material, but reductive6. On the struggle for life, he considers it mistaken to set mutual aid against the "struggle for life", since Darwin had seen the threshold at which mutual aid favours evolution7. The struggle for life presupposes solidarity, without which the human species would not have survived8. He links Darwin with Malthus and places him in the same positivist century as Freud. He also thinks that Hegel, had he known Darwin, would have given the dialectic of nature more room9.

1. 1#1.4 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?10 Dec 2015 · 1:28:03
2. 2#4 • Les Attelé(e)s de la confinitude11 Apr 2020 · 31:07
3. 3Robert (Marthe)8 Jan 2020 · 1:49:57
4. 4Musicosophie 11. Musiques modales et tonales24 Jan 2021 · 15:43
5. 5L'Histoire est elle une matière ?9 Mar 2017 · 26:13
6. 6#1.4 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?10 Dec 2015 · 46:30
7. 7Dominique Pagani : « Ce qui menace les sociétés, ce sont les hommes et femmes bénéficiaires de l’exploitation des autres »12 Mar 2019 · 1:34:02
8. 8Musicosophie 7. Les Grecs, le mythe et la musique17 Dec 2020 · 59:15
9. 9Ce soir, on repolitise. 2ème partie31 Mar 2018 · 1:26:47

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