PREMIUM-Ep. 282: Alain Badiou: What Is Philosophy? (Part Two)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

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🗓️ 29 November 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Continuing on Conditions, "The (Re)turn of Philosophy Itself."

What makes philosophy possible? The four "conditions," i.e. mathematics, politics, art, and love, generate the truths, and philosophy is the pincers that gather these together in thought. But how exactly?

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0:00.0	The partially examined life philosophy podcast Part 1 episodes are designed to be self-contained,
0:12.7	fully satisfying experiences in themselves.
0:15.6	But for hardcore philosophy fans, we record for another hour or so to release behind
0:20.0	our various paywalls to folks that pitch in to help us make this show.
0:24.1	What you're about to hear is a preview of one of these Part 2 episodes, we hope you
0:27.7	enjoy it.
0:28.7	This is the partially examined life episode 282 Part 2.
0:33.3	We've been reading a land by do's book conditions, specifically the first chapter of it, the
0:40.4	return of philosophy itself.
0:42.1	Let's see, did we actually finish his third thesis?
0:45.9	Yes, we did.
0:47.4	We need to get into thesis four.
0:49.1	All right, so what is thesis four?
0:51.7	How does it actually read?
0:53.4	Every definition of philosophy must distinguish it from sophistry.
0:57.0	All right, let's get into it.
0:58.6	The central category of any possible philosophy is the category of truth, regardless of the
1:04.4	name it is given.
1:06.6	Towards the bottom of page 10, he basically starts to outline, and let's just call it the
1:12.2	conditions for philosophy.
1:14.4	The first is, he says, before philosophy that is in it before that is non-temporal, there
1:20.6	are truths.
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