Contract

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani links the contract to political freedom: in it, each person is at once governing and governed, active and passive, when obeying the law they have prescribed to themselves1. He thus contrasts the contract, as the foundation of freedom, with geometry, which belongs to the reign of law2. He also describes the passage from the bad society of fact to the good society of right founded on the contract: this passage takes place through a return to nature, as a "neo-savage"3. He specifies that the contract is tacit and primary, that it has existed since the dawn of time, and that humanity would not have appeared if there had been only force4. In 2026 he states that one bows only to what the contract founds, that is, to the decrees of our fellow humans, and not to nature or God5. He warns, however, that the employment contract, presented as a negotiation between free persons, conceals a relation of force6. Finally, he takes up the figure of Wotan in Wagner, whose power rests on pacts engraved on his spear; when Siegfried's sword breaks this spear, Wotan is no more than a wanderer78.

1. 1P comme Peuple30 Dec 2014 · 6:49
2. 2T comme Triangle3 Jan 2015 · 10:20
3. 3S comme Sauvagerie2 Jan 2015 · 10:42
4. 4#3.6 D'Ulysse à Dédale1 Aug 2017 · 1:06:09
5. 5Leur "Europe", c'est la guerre.28 Feb 2026 · 38:48
6. 6S comme Sauvagerie2 Jan 2015 · 8:21
7. 79 #15 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?18 Feb 2021 · 19:36
8. 89 #15 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?18 Feb 2021 · 1:16:18

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