Greek philosophy

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani approaches Greek philosophy through the Socratic initiative, which he regards as a revolution whose effects are not yet exhausted1. Unlike the Presocratics, "physicists" turned towards the heavens, Socrates moves from true and false to good and evil. He replaces "what is?" with "what do you call?", a question addressed to someone, which founds dialogue and an embryo of democracy; philosophy appears here as the daughter of crisis2. With Plato and Euclid, he makes geometry a propaedeutic to the intelligible and non-contradiction the form of truth against opinion3. He reads the Republic through the preface to Hegel's Elements of the Philosophy of Right, against Popper, and draws on the Seventh Letter and the Gorgias4. In Aristotle, he sees the science of being qua being in Book Gamma as a "philosophical imperialism" in which the Socratic message is already tending to be lost5. He also explains the absence of a Greek physics by slavery, and links the Stoic and Epicurean schools to the passage from the city to the empire.

1. 1De Platon à la révolution mondiale par Dominique Pagani14 Jul 2022
2. 2Adamov (Arthur)18 Feb 2016
3. 3T comme Triangle3 Jan 2015
4. 4Dominique Pagani sur Michel Clouscard - Les chemins de la praxis 1/28 Dec 2015
5. 59 #16 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?4 Mar 2021

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