Cycle 13 · 13 Oct 2024The eternal return… of the death camps?- 17:29A statement that is not proven, but that serves to prove all others. In Kant, freedom is a postulate of practical reason.
Postulate
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Summary
Dominique Pagani defines the postulate as a necessary and non-demonstrable supposition, a statement that is not proved but serves to prove all the others1. He stresses the name Euclid gives it: postulates are "requests". For him, this word shifts the focus from something to someone: the request is an appeal to the other, and the true becomes what has been agreed upon together2. From this he draws the idea that truth rests on an agreement between subjects and that a definition is a decree of the mind3. In Kant, he points to two uses. The possible, the actual and the necessary are the postulates of modality, and the possible, defined by non-contradiction, belongs to logic. Freedom, for its part, is a postulate of practical reason. It must be presupposed for the rest to hold, without asserting that it exists41.
- 1The eternal return… of the death camps?13 Oct 2024 · 17:29
- 2What is to be done? 2/329 Jan 2016 · 48:16
- 3#3.4 From Ulysses to Daedalus1 Aug 2017 · 1:01:27
- 4#2.7 Between crisis and war: philosophising?1 Aug 2017 · 1:01:50
Summary produced automatically from 6 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
Cycle 13 · 13 Oct 2024The eternal return… of the death camps?
Cycle 2 · 1 Aug 2017#2.7 Between crisis and war: philosophising?- 1:01:50Freedom is a postulate of practical reason: what must be presupposed for the rest to be valid, without affirming that it exists.
Cycle 3 · 1 Aug 2017#3.4 From Ulysses to Daedalus- 1:01:27Euclid calls postulates "requests": truth rests on an agreement between subjects, and a definition is a decree of the mind.
Series · 29 Jan 2016What is to be done? 2/3- 48:16In Euclid, postulates are requests: an appeal to the other, the true is what we have agreed upon together.
Cycle 1 · 11 Dec 2015#1.7 Between crisis and war: philosophising?- 5:22Possible, real, necessary are the postulates of modality; the possible, defined by non-contradiction, is of a logical order.
Cycle 1 · 14 Sept 2015#1.2 Between crisis and war: philosophising?- 15:57The postulate is a necessary and undemonstrable assumption. In Euclid it is called a "demand", which shifts from something to someone.