Reason

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani starts from the Kantian distinction between reason and understanding. Understanding operates in the natural sciences and in technology. It aims at objective knowledge, on the model y = f(x), and ignores both purpose and the subject. Reason is the faculty of ends: it aims at action and transformation, and concerns good and evil, the just and the unjust, meaning123. He also links it to the Latin ratio, which translates the Greek logoi: reason is relation, a putting into relation, and not merely ideas in the head4. With Hegel, he takes up the formula "what is real is rational", specifying that rational means "having causes" and not "reasonable"5. Reason then becomes essence, what leads to freedom. Finally, he ties rationality, understood as a non-contradictory discourse on which people agree, to equality, to democracy, and to the rejection of both authority and closed identities, from the slave in the Meno to the world revolution67.

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6. 6#5.2 L’Odyssée du philosophe : La pensée révolutionnaire21 Nov 2018 · 17:39
7. 7De Platon à la révolution mondiale par Dominique Pagani14 Jul 2022 · 28:48

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