Species

Summary

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 thought. 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 unknowable1. 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 particular2. He also notes that perception thresholds define species3. 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 die4.

1. 1#12 Return to the logics of the subject2 Jul 2020 · 35:41
2. 2#5.0 Presentation of the 2018-2019 workshop15 Oct 2018 · 16:11
3. 3#12 Return to the logics of the subject2 Jul 2020 · 1:36:29
4. 4The aporias of anthropology23 Nov 2022 · 1:23:10

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