History of philosophy

Summary

Dominique Pagani does not approach the history of philosophy as a succession of doctrines. He reads it through guiding threads. In 2020 he unfolds a "serial" of the relations between substance and subject: they converge in Antiquity and diverge in modern times. He thus contrasts Platonic transcendence with Aristotle's immanence and follows the movement that Hegel describes from substance to subject. He also relates the periods of thought to historical situations. The passage from the city to the Macedonian empire produces the unhappy consciousness. The shift from Descartes to Pascal is traced, with Goldmann, to the blocking of the Jansenists. He retraces the successive "declarations of independence" of the sciences from Aristotle's philosophical imperialism and contrasts Aristotle with Socrates, who brings philosophy down from the heavens1. Finally, he looks at how philosophers read one another: Thomas Aquinas builds on Aristotle, Althusser separates Marx from Hegel, Lenin reads the Science of Logic. At the tribute to Jacques D'Hondt, he links the return of Hegel to the present crisis2.

1. 1#9.16 How can sciences of history be real?4 Mar 2021
2. 2Tribute to Jacques D'Hondt (1)2 Aug 2016

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