Phenomenon

Summary

Dominique Pagani understands the phenomenon in a sense he calls fundamentally Kantian: the totality of the objects of a possible experience, which unfold in space and time1. It is neither the reality in itself of the realist nor the pure subjectivity of the idealist, and the laws of physics apply to it2. It results from the collaboration of a matter coming from the sensible manifold and a form supplied by the mind. What we see is therefore a compromise between the real and the a priori structuring of our knowledge3. He insists on the translation: Erscheinung means appearing and not appearance (Schein), and it designates something active45. The phenomenon is appearance taken as a whole, a totality that comes from the subject. It is more real than an appearance, less real than the real in itself6. He also cites Hegel, for whom manifestation is the movement of arising and passing away, a movement that does not itself arise or pass away. In 2026 he relates the phenomenon to the opposition between nature and freedom: nature represents objects as phenomena, freedom as things in themselves.

1. 1#4.4 Angélique (by Nerval)15 Jan 2018 · 22:07
2. 2#1.6 Between crisis and war: philosophising?10 Dec 2015 · 33:10
3. 3#4.4 Angélique (by Nerval)15 Jan 2018 · 28:03
4. 4#1.6 Between crisis and war: philosophising?10 Dec 2015 · 41:46
5. 5#10.5 The figure of Antigone, such as into herself at last…24 Nov 2021 · 1:33:44
6. 6#4.4 Angélique (by Nerval)15 Jan 2018 · 40:18

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