Passion

Summary

Dominique Pagani understands passion in the classical sense: everything that I undergo. 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 novel1. 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 state2. 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 life3. 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 there4.

1. 1S for Savagery2 Jan 2015 · 5:52
2. 2#15 Plato, Rousseau, Hegel and music9 Feb 2021 · 41:15
3. 3J for Jeunesse (Youth)24 Dec 2014 · 4:24
4. 4Napoleon, or the reasons of cunning2 Dec 2024 · 28:14

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