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What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani approaches right (droit) mainly through Rousseau and the formula of the Social Contract, which he takes up from 2017 to 2024: the strongest must convert his strength into right and obedience into duty1. Force explains a power without making it legitimate. One does not obey it, one submits to it, and force alone leads to the war of each against all. Only right stabilises a political order23. He stresses that there is no continuous passage from one to the other: force is a relation between things, right a relation between persons1. For him, Rousseau thus opposes the state of right to the state of fact, and making the success of the strongest the measure of justice, as in the Gorgias, amounts to reducing right to fact4. He distinguishes positive right, laid down by human beings, from natural right understood as the universal5. He links archaic vengeance to right, and the vendetta ends when right becomes bound to the public. Finally, he notes that formal right matters, but that it can conceal the worst crimes6.

1. 1#3.6 D'Ulysse à Dédale1 Aug 2017 · 39:16
2. 2#1.5 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?10 Dec 2015 · 1:14:06
3. 3Ibn Battûta19 Feb 2020 · 1:00:18
4. 410#7 L'éco-nazillonisme "post-moderne" - Le Gorgias de Platon23 Dec 2021 · 15:24
5. 510#5 La figure d'Antigone, telle qu'en elle-même enfin...24 Nov 2021 · 1:22:51
6. 6"Napoléon ou les raisons de la ruse", avec Dominique Pagani2 Dec 2024 · 1:30:32

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