ENTRE ÉLAN ET DÉNOUEMENT: LE TÉLOS DE LA PARTICIPATION

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How and why participation is an ontological concept, and even of the Being, what is its specificity as observed in ancient Greek philosophy (as a transition from the static and passive understanding of being part to its conception as an active principle, of taking part), how participation is the condition and result of telos – are the premises.
Therefore, the ontological decomposition of the concept of participation reveals its determining force, its telos. And in human ontology, the telos is the nail and highlights a universalizable normative. It is the origin of the impulse to participate. But the power relations divide participation into permitted and forbidden, generating the contradiction between this impulse and an impossible or disfigured participation. The result is that people weigh the calls for participation against its outcome. It is the consequences of participation that stimulate or hinder it.