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What Dominique Pagani says

What Dominique Pagani mainly takes from Aesop is a saying he quotes regularly from 2016 to 2025: language, or speech, is "the best and the worst of things." He comments on it the same way each time: language educates, transmits, communicates and consoles, but it also serves slander and lies123. In 2022 this sentence gives its title to a session, where he sees it as the expression of a contradiction4. He then compares it with Hegel's Science of Logic, which would also contain the best and the worst5. In 2025 he extends it from language to man himself6. He also presents Aesop as a fabulist about whom little is known, like Homer, and points out that La Fontaine took up many of his subjects and that Molière also drew on him78. Finally, he credits him with a fable about pleasure and pain as two bodies joined under a single head, which he mentions when discussing identity and difference9.

1. 1#2.2 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?15 Feb 2016 · 1:36:17
2. 2Left-washing : Les wokes sont-ils les plus endormis ?17 Nov 2021 · 54:12
3. 3WAGNER - LA VÉRITÉ DE LA MUSIQUE PURE • Pagani Parle Musique20 Jul 2022 · 13:40
4. 4"La parole est la meilleure et la pire des choses" (Esope)19 Oct 2022 · 3:40
5. 5"La parole est la meilleure et la pire des choses" (Esope)19 Oct 2022 · 32:24
6. 6La répression du sujet dans la société civile bourgeoise9 Aug 2025 · 36:00
7. 7"La parole est la meilleure et la pire des choses" (Esope)19 Oct 2022 · 8:04
8. 8#3.3 D'Ulysse à Dédale1 Aug 2017 · 56:29
9. 910#2 Dialectiques de l'identité et de la différence6 Oct 2021 · 1:03:39

Summary produced automatically from 11 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.