Hercule Poirot

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mentions Hercule Poirot a few times between 2021 and 2022, almost always to compare him with Plato's Socrates. He calls Socrates Plato's Poirot or Sherlock Holmes1 and likens him to the detective who unravels riddles2. He also draws on the figure of the investigator to describe the work of thought: the investigator senses determinability before finding the determination3. He does, however, point out the limits of this comparison. Discussing the Gorgias, he makes clear that Socrates is not a detective who gets everyone to agree at the end4. In the session "Philosopher sous la menace" ("Philosophizing under threat"), he notes that Poirot is a detective whose author always makes him triumph5. Depending on the session, the comparison therefore serves sometimes to shed light on the Socratic approach, sometimes to set it apart.

1. 19 #11 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?7 Jan 2021 · 1:09:06
2. 2De Platon à la révolution mondiale par Dominique Pagani14 Jul 2022 · 44:01
3. 39 #23 "C'est réglé comme du papier à musique !" • Bach • Nerval • Lévi-Strauss9 Jun 2021 · 38:22
4. 410#7 L'éco-nazillonisme "post-moderne" - Le Gorgias de Platon23 Dec 2021 · 56:47
5. 5#8 Philosopher sous la menace27 Jan 2022 · 45:23

Summary produced automatically from 5 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.