Ontology

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani reserves the term ontology for the study of being qua being, a discipline that arises with Plato and Aristotle and that Aristotle sets out in Book Gamma of the Metaphysics1. He defines it as a discourse, a logos, on being. He stresses that Marx almost never speaks of it and deals with human activity rather than with being2. For him, ontology is not reactionary in itself: it must be wrested from Heidegger3. He reports Michel Clouscard's thesis that if the question of being appears, it is because being is already lost4. He holds that being in the raw sense precedes anthropology, and that praxis was needed to bring existence to light5. In 2020, he accepts a second ontology, that of being produced by history, which he distinguishes from a primitive and naturalist ontology6.

1. 1Dominique Pagani sur Michel Clouscard - Les chemins de la praxis 1/28 Dec 2015 · 42:37
2. 2#7 Réponses aux questions (suite)3 Dec 2020 · 38:43
3. 3Dominique Pagani sur Michel Clouscard - Les chemins de la praxis 2/28 Dec 2015 · 7:32
4. 4Dominique Pagani sur Michel Clouscard - Les chemins de la praxis 1/28 Dec 2015 · 49:06
5. 5Dominique Pagani sur Michel Clouscard - Les chemins de la praxis 2/28 Dec 2015 · 17:58
6. 6#7 Réponses aux questions (suite)3 Dec 2020 · 58:07

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