Logic

What Dominique Pagani says

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. 1La Phénoménologie de L'esprit2 Jul 2018 · 23:21
2. 2"La parole est la meilleure et la pire des choses" (Esope)19 Oct 2022 · 18:51
3. 39 #16 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?4 Mar 2021 · 16:43
4. 4Arendt et Heidegger : la destruction de la pensée24 Sept 2020 · 54:32
5. 59 #18 Le Crépuscule des dieux ou de la répétition à la libération3 Apr 2021 · 1:30:14
6. 6Musicosophie 11. Musiques modales et tonales24 Jan 2021 · 1:40:38
7. 7Naissance et carnage - Le massacre des Innocents22 Dec 2023 · 30:11

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