Cycle 12 · 17 Oct 2023Neither left nor right? Islamo-leftism?- 59:32The word designates now knowledge (what can I know?), now wisdom (what must I do?).
Sophia
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Summary
Dominique Pagani understands sophia as a double term, meaning both knowledge and wisdom. He stresses that these two notions are disjoint and overlap only in part: this, in his view, is what "makes the philosopher limp"1. Knowledge concerns the true and the false, a discourse that conforms to its object; wisdom is turned towards action, towards good and evil2. He restates this distinction as two questions: "what can I know?" and "what ought I to do?". On the second, the scholar is no better placed than the sage3. Philosophy, the love of sophia, lies precisely in the linking of the two terms: the philosopher seeks to join the sage and the scholar through a theoretical detour. He develops this reading from Plato in 2015 and keeps it without notable change in the sessions of 2017, 2021 and 20234.
- 1#1.3 Between crisis and war: philosophising?14 Sept 2015 · 2:10
- 2#2.8 Between crisis and war: philosophising?1 Aug 2017 · 4:08
- 3Neither left nor right? Islamo-leftism?17 Oct 2023 · 59:34
- 4#9.11 How can sciences of history be real?7 Jan 2021 · 1:05:42
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Cycle 12 · 17 Oct 2023Neither left nor right? Islamo-leftism?
Cycle 1 · 14 Sept 2015#1.3 Between crisis and war: philosophising?- 2:10The Greek term joins wisdom and knowledge, two notions that only partly overlap: hence the philosopher's limp.
Cycle 1 · 14 Sept 2015#1.2 Between crisis and war: philosophising?- 8:33For the Greeks, sophia is both knowledge and wisdom. Reduced to either one alone, philosophy drowns; it is the joining of the two.