The dawn of philosophy. On the flow of speech Unfortunately we can not go back to the days of ancient Greece. I say unfortunately 'because I must confess that I sometimes after Fresh naive in thinking of the ancient Greek philosophers yearn. Even today, more than two thousand years later, their lyrics seem like fruits that have just picked and still wet from the dew. Her words still seem to be unloaded, the terms free from war, the beauty of directly erotic.
Solon of Athens (640 - 560 BC) to have said: "The speech was to defeat by silence, the silence but by the time". Even today, this statement requires us to reflect on the fresh phenomena of speech, silence and time. Somehow seems to contain the mystery is a truth that we can think perhaps not immediately, but but feel it. A truth makes itself felt, before we really understand.
From Pittacus from Mylene - handed (650 570 BC) is: "Painted wood is the best protection of the polis," a statement that was like that of Solon meant as a puzzle. It is clear that the old way has spoken about the laws that have been recorded in Athens on wooden boards and placed in the streets. Is puzzling, however, why not simply Pittacus spoken in laws, but refers to the wood.
And then the hammer of Thales of Miletus (first half of 6th century): "The oldest of the nature of God, the father of the unknown, the most beautiful is the world the work of God, the largest of the room, the all-embracing, the fastest of the spirit that permeates everything, the greatest need, the all-dominant, the wisest time to invent anything. " With this statement, Thales said, all sorts of questions about life and the world would be answered. Behind the words but a smile can be felt, above all, because the last part of the statement - "the wisest is the time to invent everything" - retroactively makes the whole thing almost ironic in question. (Because it's not quite ironically, remains the wisdom.)
from such statements, we are in today's far away. Philosophers write very complicated books, politicians make statements supple, scientists overload us with results of investigations to publish daily news journalists and especially comments, Wikileaks created a backlog of documents. A summary of the urgent messages into the ocean is not human.
In the current linguistic-cultural and ideological "Diversity defines words and terms again and again, that is the first" deconstructed "and then again" constructed ". No matter what you are talking, in almost every discourse, the words of contaminated land to be freed before they can be used. Mostly, I think, succeed not sustainable, most for the duration of the text.
There are a lot of words that can use it no more, without creating confusion with security. Alone in the text that I write now would be described as problematic thinking, philosophers, concepts, beauty, erotic, life, world, language, culture, deconstructing ideological, (was Jacques Derrida expected that the term deconstruction would be continually deconstructed ?)... And in every other sentence will be listed words and terms, their meanings (!) Get lost easily in the wide variety.
This fact it seems to me that makes two movements. The first movement, we all know it is really just describe as a non-movement, because it means fixing: We try the words and terms in certain linguistic contexts - one might even say, in discourse - to define. To avoid misunderstanding, we try desperately to give the words of a stony uniqueness. The result is that the words are no more juicy fruits, like peaches, but only seeds without meat.
The second movement, we notice less, it is much more important. It means that we move away from the obvious and just come to a linguistic games. Above all in the pubs, bedrooms, kitchens, trams and on the road this tendency can be observed. It is based on the inner attitude that "no matter" is how we name things, the main thing would be that we "see ourselves". And this attitude is staggering increases when we move into the Internet.
You could also say: in the language is increasingly important that meanings are "intuitive" (!!!) taken. Not the outer garment of the language that counts, but their inner-gambling-transforming dynamic. We are beginning to listen on the specified language, the thus come off of insightful concepts and access associated with an ethereal (excusez le mot!) level, where objects are no longer objects, words, no bottles, no news reports, footnotes, no semantic screws.
and interesting: in the twilight of the philosophy that goes with these two movements along, get the statements of Solon, Pittakes and Thales - they were among the so-called "Wise Men", which have spurred more than two thousand years, the philosophy - an unexpected effect. They seem utterly fresh, because they have a proximity to the flow of the ethereal world. To be eligible to their mysterious meanings approached, they demand something from us, we just want to learn: us off center in the variety keep reinventing.
