Universal

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani understands the universal as what holds everywhere, always and for everyone, on the model of "if A equals B, B equals A": logic and geometry establish it against those who see only opinions1. With Euclid and Kant, he holds it to be intersubjective: knowledge is universal only if it can be shared2. In Hegel, language stands in the element of the universal, what I say belying what I mean. Together with man and progress, it forms a "cursed triangle", discredited since the 1970s by culturalist relativism, which serves capitalism by dividing people into identities34. He links this rejection to Burke, to the counter-revolution and to Nazism5. He distinguishes the false universal, which it is legitimate to criticise, from the concept itself. With Adotevi, he defends a thought that wills the universal. Regarding Nerval, he speaks of a dialectic of the particular and the universal: the great writer starts from his own mother to reach "the mother"6.

1. 1T comme Triangle3 Jan 2015 · 3:23
2. 2Hegel Plage 4/52 Feb 2016 · 1:34:40
3. 3Monde d'avant, Monde d'après - 2e partie16 Jan 2021 · 45:45
4. 4Dominique Pagani ▷II Michel Foucault2 May 2019 · 26:08
5. 59 #22 Science et/ou philosophie de l' "intelligence artificielle" - 2ème partie27 May 2021 · 38:44
6. 6#4.8 Angélique (de Nerval)16 May 2018 · 2:48

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