Species

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani defines the species as the middle term between the genus and the individual. He gives philosophy as an example, presenting it as a species of the genus thought1. He links the notion to the Greek eidos, which also means species. For him, the species is the ideal of knowledge: the genus is too general, while the individual is almost unknowable2. From a logical perspective, he sees the species as the highest degree of precision that a logic of natural language can reach, between the excessive abstraction of the genus and the contingency of the particular3. He also notes that perception thresholds define species4. In the context of anthropology, he contrasts the animal, made specifically for one environment, with the human species, whose evolution is without limit, whereas individuals are born and die5.

1. 1Platon14 Sept 2015 · 6:28
2. 2#12 • Retour aux logiques du sujet2 Jul 2020 · 35:41
3. 3#5.0 Présentation Atelier Saison 2018-1915 Oct 2018 · 16:11
4. 4#12 • Retour aux logiques du sujet2 Jul 2020 · 1:36:29
5. 5LES APORIES DE L’ANTHROPOLOGIE23 Nov 2022 · 1:23:10

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