Summary
Dominique Pagani reads the Bible first of all as a story about language. He sees in it a "tragic comedy" in three acts: Adam names the creatures and brings clarity into chaos, Babel establishes the confusion of tongues, and Pentecost lifts this curse1. He links Babel to Prometheus and draws from this story the distinction between speaking and saying. In 2022, he still counts this triptych among the constants of his teaching2. In a session on artificial intelligence, he presents Adam as an artificial creature, shaped from mud and brought to life by breath, who is in the image of God through speech and its double level of articulation3. He also uses the Bible to talk about falsehood. The Gospel of John makes the devil the father of lies. The murder of Abel shows, like Oedipus, a punishment immanent in the crime. In the expulsion from the earthly paradise, shame proves knowledge and the curse gives rise to work4. Asked about Joshua, he finds no question in the Bible that Joshua failed to ask5.
- 1#2.2 Between crisis and war: philosophising?15 Feb 2016
- 2#14 Caves of yesterday and today: from Plato to modernity10 Jun 2022
- 3#9.21 Science and/or philosophy of “artificial intelligence”12 May 2021
- 4#9 Return to the logics of the subject30 May 2020
- 5Roots or migration? From analytical reverie to current events, from Hölderlin to the war17 Feb 2023
Introduction produced automatically from the 6 sessions on this theme, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the sessions.
The 6 videos
Cycle 11Roots or migration? From analytical reverie to current events, from Hölderlin to the war
17 Feb 2023Between roots and migration, between the measure of the inhabited place and the pull of the infinite, how does man find his place, while war looms?
Cycle 10#14 Caves of yesterday and today: from Plato to modernity
10 Jun 2022What remains invariant, beneath their apparent discontinuity, in Dominique Pagani's talks?
Cycle 9.2#9.21 Science and/or philosophy of “artificial intelligence”
12 May 2021What should be understood by "artificial intelligence," and what separates a machine that simulates intelligence from a being who speaks, doubts, and sets itself ends?
Cycle 8#9 Return to the logics of the subject
30 May 2020Does a privation of truth exist, a lie to oneself, that is not culpable, provided it is accompanied by social justice?
Cycle 2#2.3 Between crisis and war: philosophising?
18 Feb 2016Why does philosophy, daughter of crisis, start from words of ordinary language, and what does modern poetry say about the historical moment named by the word "Occident"?
Cycle 2#2.2 Between crisis and war: philosophising?
15 Feb 2016How does a sonnet by Baudelaire, La Cloche fêlée, allow us to link the problem of language and communication to the thought of our historical present, modernity?