Cycle 9.2 · 27 May 2021#9.22 Science and/or philosophy of “artificial intelligence” (part 2)- 1:29:05Finalism imputed to nature is a cognitive catastrophe; it comes from man alienating his own finality, which must be relocated in him.
Finality
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Summary
Dominique Pagani places finality outside the cognitive order: natural science never brings in an end, whereas quality, too much and too little, the useful and the useless only make sense in relation to a presupposed aim. For him, reflecting on the end is the object of philosophy, while the means remains axiologically neutral1. The end is what is not there and can only be signified: it is meaning2. He links it to the subject, since only someone can represent an end to themselves; neither God nor the pebble pursues one, and it is found in man34. He calls the finalism attributed to nature a "cognitive catastrophe" and sees in it man's alienation of his own finality, while retaining, with Hegel and Marx, reason as an operation in accordance with an aim56. He finds the end in the form of a tool, in the function of an organic totality, in capital determining itself from its end, and in the "finality without representation of an end" of aesthetic pleasure.
- 1L'île du Peuple: the debate23 Jun 2015 · 1:05:19
- 2#1.4 Between crisis and war: philosophising?10 Dec 2015 · 21:40
- 3#1.4 Between crisis and war: philosophising?10 Dec 2015 · 52:12
- 4#5.2 bis Questions (Facebook Live)6 Dec 2018 · 39:37
- 5#5.2 bis Questions (Facebook Live)6 Dec 2018 · 16:36
- 6#9.22 Science and/or philosophy of “artificial intelligence” (part 2)27 May 2021 · 1:29:05
Summary produced automatically from 31 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
Cycle 9.2 · 27 May 2021#9.22 Science and/or philosophy of “artificial intelligence” (part 2)
Cycle 9.2 · 17 Mar 2021#9.17 The geopolitical metaphor: Planck, Descartes, Clouscard- 29:29Aristotle's physics explains the fall of bodies by their tendency to rejoin their natural place, distinguishing natural and violent motions.
Cycle 9.2 · 4 Mar 2021#9.16 How can sciences of history be real?- 1:25:19The notion of end articulates the first part and the second; asking "why" several times leads back to the question of the end of life.
Cycle 9.2 · 29 Jan 2021#9.13 How can sciences of history be real?
Talks · 16 Jan 2021The world before, the world after (part 2)- 26:57Value judgments presuppose an end beforehand: rain is a disaster for the beach operator, a blessing for the farmer.
Series · 3 Dec 2020#2 From Lévi-Strauss to Nerval, on music- 42:12Marx rehabilitates finality; the post-modern contempt for teleology takes advantage of the justified discrediting of finalism in nature.
Cycle 9.1 · 30 Nov 2020#6 Answers to questions- 5:04Man's finality is most often unconscious: avoiding situations in which he could not help but think of his finitude.
Cycle 8 · 9 Jul 2020#13 Return to the logics of the subject
Cycle 5.2 · 30 Jun 2019#5.8 Nature or landscape?- 21:44The setting is human because it bears the mark of an end, a telos; the form of a tool is a realized end.
Cycle 5.1 · 13 Jan 2019#5.3 bis Questions (Facebook Live)- 44:01Form expresses finality, the function of the object. An end introduces into space and time a hierarchy and a finalized course.
Cycle 5.1 · 31 Dec 2018#5.3 The philosopher's Odyssey: revolutionary thought- 34:21"Useful" means nothing without the presupposed end; reflecting on the end is the object of philosophy, and the means remains axiologically neutral.
Cycle 5.1 · 6 Dec 2018#5.2 bis Questions (Facebook Live)- 16:36External finalism places an end in things prior to human action; Hegel rejects it but rehabilitates reason as an operation conforming to a purpose.
- 39:37God pursues no end, nor does the pebble: it is only in the milieu, in man, that there is an end.
- 1:03:26The human end is an infinite end, a means of never ending up with a determinate end.
Cycle 3 · 1 Aug 2017#3.1 From Ulysses to Daedalus- 1:18:45The concept designates a function, that is, an end, invisible and subjective; the science of nature never brings in ends.
Cycle 2 · 1 Aug 2017#2.6 Between crisis and war: philosophising?- 12:21Metaphor refers to the order of ends and desire; caught up in means, one no longer knows where the end is.
Talks · 9 Mar 2017Is history a subject?- 1:09:51The table is defined neither by its shape nor its matter but by a function, a human intention; humanity too is a notion to be constructed.
Talks · 2 Aug 2016Tribute to Jacques D'Hondt (1)- 19:46Capital acts in a mode of finality, hence Hegelian: it engenders itself, self-posits, and self-determines from its end.
Cycle 1 · 10 Dec 2015#1.5 Between crisis and war: philosophising?- 2:17Useful, overproduce are not objective terms: they only make sense if one specifies the end, the examination of which falls outside the field of science and technology.
- 55:50In Aristotle's finalism, the principle of motion is internal to the body; every end presupposes not a something but a someone.
- 1:07:27Overproduction presupposes an unstated end: the expected profit margin.
Cycle 1 · 10 Dec 2015#1.4 Between crisis and war: philosophising?- 13:20One cannot speak of the soul without the notion of finality, which lies outside the cognitive order; the end is what lies behind goals.
- 21:40The end is what is not there: it can only be signified; the end is meaning.
- 52:12As soon as there is finality, there is a subject: only someone can represent an end to itself.
Talks · 23 Jun 2015L'île du Peuple: the debate
Series · 31 Dec 2014Q for Quality