Cycle 13 · 2 Dec 2024Evil, or the “unknowing” of the self- 45:39If the lie is the opposite of truth, truth also has the false as its opposite: 3 + 2 = 7 is false, not a lie.
Truth
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Summary
Dominique Pagani distinguishes truth from reality: truth belongs to logos and to statements, while reality belongs to things1. He also sets it against certainty, which is subjective and dogmatic. It took millennia to arrive at a few objective truths, such as the earth's motion, which overturned the certainty of an immobile ground2. In his view, truth imposes itself on everyone through non-contradiction, which makes rational thought a democratic thought3, and it can only be reached with others: I, the others and the true must be held together4. He separates two antonyms, the false and the lie. From Hegel he takes the sense of "the truth of": the fulfilment of a moment, which is also its suppression, as the fruit is for the flower. From this he draws the thesis that secularism is the truth of religion5. For him, illusion is an inverted truth. Finally, he discusses Nietzsche, who questions the value of truth, and Hölderlin, for whom truth is something to fear.
- 1#1.3 Between crisis and war: philosophising?14 Sept 2015 · 1:00:57
- 2#2 Harnessed to confinitude30 Mar 2020 · 33:44
- 3#2.7 Between crisis and war: philosophising?1 Aug 2017 · 1:17:32
- 4From Plato to world revolution14 Jul 2022 · 39:29
- 5Secularism, the truth of religion?18 Feb 2024 · 11:22
Summary produced automatically from 34 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
Cycle 13 · 2 Dec 2024Evil, or the “unknowing” of the self
Cycle 12 · 30 May 2024From fidelity to grace: from substance to subject- 1:20:46Secularism, the truth of religion: truth in the Hegelian sense, accomplishment and suppression at the same time.
Cycle 12 · 18 Feb 2024Secularism, the truth of religion?- 11:22"The truth of" is not the opposite of the false or the lie: it is the accomplishment of a moment, which is at the same time its abolition, like the fruit for the flower.
- 2:03:00Secularism, truth of religion: it preserves what matters most in religion, binding people together, and abolishes the fantasized form in which it appeared.
Cycle 12 · 17 Oct 2023Neither left nor right? Islamo-leftism?- 1:22:30With Plato and Euclid, I need the other in order to be in the truth: the first principles are postulates addressed to someone.
Talks · 14 Jul 2022From Plato to world revolution- 39:29Our relation to the true passes through others, but it is not enough to be with them: one needs myself, others, and the true.
Cycle 10 · 23 Jun 2022#15 Nietzsche: philosophical or musical relevance? Answers to questions- 51:35Plato and Aristotle agree against the sophists: truth exists, it is to be sought through long labor, and language is the path to it.
Cycle 10 · 3 Nov 2021#10.4 From Lascaux to modern music, the permanence of the political stakes in aesthetics
Cycle 8 · 23 Jul 2020#15 Return to the logics of the subject- 1:16:00Scientism presents a univocal science; the contradictions about the mask maintain anxiety and accustom the population to obedience.
Cycle 7 · 17 May 2020#8 Harnessed to confinitude- 7:07Logico-mathematical truth has the false as its opposite, following the excluded middle; in a trial, telling the truth means not lying, not saying nothing false.
Cycle 7 · 18 Apr 2020#5 Harnessed to confinitude- 2:42For Nietzsche, truth is not necessarily a value: if it is fearsome, it may be better to ignore it.
- 1:19:28With Hölderlin, truth is feared not because it brings bad news, but because the enjoyment of it hurts as much as misfortune.
- 1:34:24Truth is a violence that comes from within consciousness, not imposed from outside.
Cycle 7 · 11 Apr 2020#4 Harnessed to confinitude- 43:51Nietzsche moves from "what is truth?" to "what in us wants truth?", then to the value of this wanting: a criterion no longer cognitive but of value.
Cycle 7 · 30 Mar 2020#2 Harnessed to confinitude- 33:44Truth is the worst enemy of certainty: we were certain that the ground was motionless.
Talks · 20 Jul 2018Education: can beauty be learned?- 1:01:01The beautiful expresses a truth that is out of place and that must be put back in its place; then one moves from aesthetics to philosophy.
Talks · 2 Jul 2018The Phenomenology of Spirit
Cycle 4 · 12 Apr 2018#4.7 Angélique (by Nerval)
Talks · 16 Nov 2017The philosopher's two enemies: the dogmatist and the sceptic- 3:16Certain things, such as the symmetry of equality or the earth's motion around the sun, belong to truth and not merely to certainty.
Cycle 4 · 12 Nov 2017#4.2 Angélique (by Nerval)- 1:42:54There is a profound truth to the text, but truth is not reality.
Cycle 2 · 1 Aug 2017#2.8 Between crisis and war: philosophising?
Cycle 2 · 1 Aug 2017#2.7 Between crisis and war: philosophising?- 1:17:32Epistemic truth is not opinion: it imposes itself on everyone through non-contradiction, hence a democratism immanent to rational thought.
Cycle 1 · 10 Dec 2015#1.6 Between crisis and war: philosophising?- 1:08:24Old criterion: adequation of mind to thing, a relation of copy to model; modern criterion: adequation of mind to itself.
Cycle 1 · 14 Sept 2015#1.3 Between crisis and war: philosophising?
Talks · 8 Aug 2015Mythology and truth
Series · 8 Jan 2015Y for Yonville- 8:21In illusion, the true is not merely different from the false: it is its inverse.
Series · 24 Dec 2014J for Jeunesse (Youth)- 6:05Nietzsche tries to act as though untruth were a value superior to truth.
Series · 21 Dec 2014G for Gauche (the Left)- 2:20Without others one cannot reach the true; philosophy is only worthwhile if myself, the true, and others are held together.