Héraclite

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani sees Heraclitus as the first thinker for whom being itself is dialectical, with contradiction as the driving force of becoming1. He keeps coming back to "panta rhei", "everything flows", and to the river one never steps into twice. He points out that the river implies both what moves and what does not move2, and that this movement calls for a fixed point3. He sets this mobilism against the Eleatics and Parmenides, and finds a synthesis of the two in the pause at the water's edge4. From "everything flows" he draws the absence of any natural measure and the absolute error in all physical measurement5. He quotes several fragments: "the bow's name is life, its work is death"6; fire as a principle bound up with logos; strife as the father of all things; and the Delphic oracle that "signifies", in which he reads the modern theory of the sign7. He also mentions Heidegger's reading, which makes Heraclitus an original Germanic power.

1. 1D. Pagani / Réponse de M. Clouscard à C. Morilhat • Seconde Partie10 Sept 2019 · 31:13
2. 2#1.3 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?14 Sept 2015 · 1:12:57
3. 3#3.3 D'Ulysse à Dédale1 Aug 2017 · 1:11:02
4. 4Chateaubriand26 Mar 2019 · 51:23
5. 59 #13 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?29 Jan 2021 · 11:22
6. 6#6.6 • La Logique du Sujet face à la reconstitution du nazisme29 Mar 2020 · 1:24:17
7. 7Adamov (Arthur)18 Feb 2016 · 7:04

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