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What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mentions Aeolus mainly through an ironic remark he attributes to Socrates. Faced with the fear that the soul, like smoke, might dissipate at the moment of death, Socrates suggests praying to the god of the wind so that the soul is not carried away1, or so that there is no wind on the day of death2. He returns to this image of the smoke-soul in other sessions3. He also uses Aeolus for a question of language: the divinity who made the wind blow would be the origin of personal constructions, where today one says "it is windy" with no definite subject4. More recently, he takes the god of the wind as an example of the immanence of the divine among the Greeks, for whom the divine lies within the phenomena themselves5. Aeolus thus remains a secondary figure for him. He serves to illustrate the ancient conception of the soul, grammar and the Greek relation to the sacred.

1. 1Keller (Helen)15 Feb 2016 · 1:13:48
2. 2#5.3 bis FaceBookLive / Questions13 Jan 2019 · 46:36
3. 3Robert (Marthe)8 Jan 2020 · 45:07
4. 4Popper (Karl)3 Dec 2019 · 22:45
5. 5"Je est un autre" ou l'identité contradictoire12 Dec 2023 · 13:02

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