Octonary of Philosophical Sufficiency

Abstract

In this experimental philo-fiction, Laruelle groups eight paragraphs reflecting on the relationship between philosophy, man, and naming. This relationship itself serves as a kind of landmark, monument, or bridge that strives to connect, in its very sufficiency, the thought of man and man himself. Situated in the midst of Philosophy II and as part of the third issue of La décision philosophique, Laruelle’s text implicitly relates to other pieces from this same issue, such as reflections on Charles Péguy, human philosophy, anthropology, naming, and a non-epistemological description of science. This philo-fiction that appears towards the end of the third issue of La décision philosophique opens this issue of Oraxiom with the goal of highlighting the distinction between a human philosophy whose solitude is non-self-positing and the self-positing of philosophical sufficiency to account for philosophy, the real of man, and naming.