Man

What Dominique Pagani says

From 2014 to 2024, Dominique Pagani repeats that being born a man is not enough to be one: one must become one, and the state of being a man is rarer than the rank of king1. Neither nature nor God makes man; man makes himself, over a long time2. Born of human parents, each person is a man in potentiality, not in actuality. Man is therefore not an origin but a process, as the example of feral children shows3. He cannot be defined by qualities or by an environment, unlike the badger. Finite in space and in time, he is "zero", the only animal aware of its finitude4. An unfinished animal born before term, he becomes viable only through the relation to others. Pagani calls him a historical rather than a cultural animal. As the existing concept, man produces his world: the animal subsists, while man exists by projecting himself through his production5. In 2024, he describes man as the unfinished movement from animality toward a humanist ideal, with no essence prior to the citizen6.

1. 1« D’un triangle de folie au cœur de la conscience moderne »19 Dec 2014 · 8:51
2. 2H comme Hegel22 Dec 2014 · 7:09
3. 3IL NE SUFFIT PAS DE NAÎTRE HOMME, POUR ÊTRE HOMME • Q&A Philosophique • Dominique Pagani19 Jul 2021 · 20:48
4. 4Z comme Zéro9 Jan 2015 · 6:14
5. 5JE ne suis pas celui que vous croyez - L'identité introuvable4 Jan 2024 · 1:41:01
6. 6Pour une apocalypse "fraiche et joyeuse" ?24 Jun 2024 · 2:03:10

Summary produced automatically from 14 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.