Platon

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani sees Plato as the greatest artist and stage director in the history of thought: in his dialogues, truth is born from the clash of discourses1. He links Plato's philosophy to his political failure in Syracuse, recounted in the Seventh Letter2. For him, philosophy is political at the outset and at the end, as shown by the "immense detour" of the Republic. He often retells the allegory of the cave, the divided line and the sun, offspring of the good, which also gives growth and nourishment3. He reads the Gorgias closely, a confrontation between Socrates and Callicles on the edge of violence. He also reads the Sophist, where there is no same without other, and the Phaedo: its distinction between the cause and that without which the cause would not be a cause prevents seeing Plato as a mere idealist4. Following Hegel, he judges him reactionary in the face of nascent subjective freedom, yet makes his rational method the pivot of the revolution5.

1. 1De Platon à la révolution mondiale par Dominique Pagani14 Jul 2022 · 1:09
2. 2#3.4 D'Ulysse à Dédale1 Aug 2017 · 16:10
3. 3#1 Bien-et Mé-faits de l'amnésie...8 Oct 2020 · 31:10
4. 4Staël (Mme de )26 May 2019 · 1:13:45
5. 5Ni gauche ni droite ? Islamo gauchisme ?17 Oct 2023 · 1:14:12

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