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Alain Badiou. Philosophy's Conditions of Existence

Title:Alain Badiou. Philosophy's Conditions of Existence
Date:08/02/2010Length:1:24:59
Alain Badiou, French philosopher and author, lecturing on the conditions necessary for the inception of philosophy, discussing the five conditions for the inception of philosophy: democracy, common logic, equality, impurity and presence. Badiou argues how the intertwining of these conditions, present in Ancient Greece, formed a situation, which could give birth to philosophy. European Graduate School EGS