Season 14 · 13 Apr 2026Language and thought: The case of Lavoisier- 30:26The astronomer addresses a mute object, in monologue; Socrates addresses the astronomer, who can answer.
Dialogue
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What Dominique Pagani says
Dominique Pagani defines dialogue by contrasting it with monologue. He often returns to the same example, from 2015 to 2026: the astronomer, or the astrologer, questions a mute object such as the sun and remains in a subject-object relation, whereas Socrates addresses the astronomer, who can answer, and establishes a subject-subject relation12. One cannot dialogue with the sun; dialogue begins when one speaks to someone who can answer3. The question "what do you call…?", put to the one who names the thing, marks this shift. For him, it is the genuine philosophical question, in place of "what is it?"45. He specifies that dialogue does not aim at agreement with the other but at agreement with oneself6. He also stresses its dramatic form: discourses clash in it, and truth arises from their collision, like the spark between two stones7. Finally, he extends the notion to music, where the concerto is a concertation between the orchestra and soloists8.
- 1Platon14 Sept 2015 · 20:07
- 2Langage et pensée : Le cas Lavoisier13 Apr 2026 · 30:26
- 3De Platon à la révolution mondiale par Dominique Pagani14 Jul 2022 · 21:39
- 49 #11 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?7 Jan 2021 · 1:11:49
- 5Et le sujet dans tout ça ? Hölderlin, Mallarmé et Baudelaire28 Sept 2022 · 23:40
- 6Hegel Plage 1/51 Feb 2016 · 1:05:07
- 7De Platon à la révolution mondiale par Dominique Pagani14 Jul 2022 · 1:48
- 8Musicosophie 13. Mozart restitué2 Feb 2021 · 13:30
Summary produced automatically from 10 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
Season 14 · 13 Apr 2026Language and thought: The case of Lavoisier
Season 11 · 28 Sept 2022And what about the subject in all this? Hölderlin, Mallarmé and Baudelaire- 23:40The philosophical question is "what do you call?", addressed to a subject who can answer, and not "what is it?".
Talks · 14 Jul 2022From Plato to world revolution, by Dominique Pagani
Series · 2 Feb 2021Musicosophy 13. Mozart restored- 13:30The concerto is a dialogue, a concertation between orchestra and soloists.
Season 9.2 · 7 Jan 20219 #11 How can sciences of history be real?- 1:11:49The astronomer who questions the sun conducts a monologue on essence; Socrates dialogues with the astronomer and asks "what do you call the sun?"
Season 5.1 · 13 Jan 2019#5.3 bis FaceBookLive / Questions- 12:06The astronomer who questions a mute object is in monologue; Socrates, who addresses one who speaks, moves to dialogue.
Series · 1 Feb 2016Hegel on the Beach 1/5- 1:05:07With Socrates's "what do you call...?", one moves from monologue to dialogue: the point is not to agree with the other, but with oneself.
Series · 29 Jan 2016What is to be done? 1/3- 50:52The astronomer engages in a monologue with an object that does not answer; Socrates asks "what do you call?" of the one who names the thing.
Season 1 · 14 Sept 2015#1.2 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?- 20:07The astrologer is in monologue, a subject-object relation; Socrates is in dialogue, a subject-subject relation. Philosophy questions the words that connect us.