Naturalism

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani takes naturalism to be the thesis that nature, heredity or genes determine human beings, at the expense of history, culture and praxis1. In his view, cognitive science and neuroscience illustrate it today, as does a neo-Spinozism that neglects the historical dimension of the affects2. He contrasts heritage with heredity and faults naturalism for seeing only the relation to the thing: one does not eat merely to relieve hunger, one eats at table with fellow diners3. He links it to ecologism, which he distinguishes from ecology: the idea of a natural balance there is religious in origin, and this discourse makes man a devil and nature a divinity4. He holds it to be contrary to Hegel and to Marxism, Marx having broken with the naturalism of his youth5. He sees in it an anti-humanism, which is also the core of Nazi ideology6. He specifies that he does not attack nature itself, that materialism and naturalism are not the same thing, and that he defends the environment against nature.

1. 1#4 • Les Attelé(e)s de la confinitude11 Apr 2020 · 20:06
2. 2Q comme Qualité31 Dec 2014 · 6:31
3. 3« D’un triangle de folie au cœur de la conscience moderne »19 Dec 2014 · 4:40
4. 4Platon14 Sept 2015 · 45:11
5. 5H comme Hegel22 Dec 2014 · 4:06
6. 6L'idéologie naturaliste / Réponses aux questions - Dominique Pagani25 Jul 2025 · 1:09:26

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