Logic

Summary

Dominique Pagani understands logic first in the Hegelian sense: a concrete logic that takes in the diverse, the different and even the contradictory1. He places it in the first circle of Hegel's system, the circle of the logos, where the idea and concepts develop, and which touches on language, including in mathematics2. He also recalls the tradition of the Organon, in which language, the tool of all the sciences, is studied before any applied discipline3. Against Arendt, who accuses logic of destroying the faculty of thinking, he holds it to be the foundation of humanism4. He extends the notion to other fields. In Wagner's Ring, an algebraic logic rules like a law of the hard sciences: to obtain the gold, one must renounce love. The love potion stands for an external necessity whose prey the characters are5. In music, "ancient", "modern" or "Western" refer for him to moments of logic, not to periods or places6. Lastly, he speaks of a logic of sensory qualities (smells, tastes, sounds) alongside the logic of concepts7.

1. 1The Phenomenology of Spirit2 Jul 2018 · 23:21
2. 2“Speech is the best and the worst of things” (Aesop)19 Oct 2022 · 18:51
3. 3#9.16 How can sciences of history be real?4 Mar 2021 · 16:43
4. 4Arendt and Heidegger: the destruction of thought24 Sept 2020 · 54:32
5. 5#9.18 Twilight of the Gods, or from repetition to liberation3 Apr 2021 · 1:30:14
6. 6#11 Modal and tonal music24 Jan 2021 · 1:40:38
7. 7Birth and carnage: the Massacre of the Innocents22 Dec 2023 · 30:11

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