Passion

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani understands passion in the classical sense: everything that I undergo1. He takes sexuality as an example: it is a passion undergone in the service of the species, which in the civil state is ennobled into institution, marriage, love, and even the world of the novel2. He takes up this analysis again in 2018 in the same terms. In Rousseau, he distinguishes needs, which drive people apart, from passions, which bring them together: the passions are the origin of languages and of the passage to the civil state3. He also links a personal trait to Rousseau: because he remains attached to the passions, Rousseau stays ready to catch fire like an adolescent until the end of his life4. In a session devoted to Napoleon and cunning, he takes up the idea that nothing great has been accomplished without passion: reason makes use of the subjective passions that are already there5.

1. 1Assemblée nationale24 Oct 2018 · 23:23
2. 2S comme Sauvagerie2 Jan 2015 · 5:52
3. 3Musicosophie 15. Platon, Rouseau, Hegel et la musique9 Feb 2021 · 41:15
4. 4J comme Jeunesse24 Dec 2014 · 4:24
5. 5"Napoléon ou les raisons de la ruse", avec Dominique Pagani2 Dec 2024 · 28:14

Summary produced automatically from 5 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.