Does what we say dictate what mean and thus how we see the world? Language is the house of the truth of being (Heidegger - Letter on Humanism (1947)) (which the logical positivists drove to an incredible extreme trying to use human knowledge as truth) -- and if we really dumb it down pictures and seeing are a language because words are symbols for sound, definition and personal understanding. So in some sense yes, but even Derrida points out not everything we mean is what we mean because of the subjective nature of everyone else and the connotations we do not know about the words that we say. Kierkegaard was on to something when he said the world is subjective and thus we should chase meaning through passion and personal inclination-- But if meaning through passion means subjective experience it would mean that meaning in itself has to be chased through deriving our own rational understanding of how we see and speak. Not through rationalizing everything-- it is bad faith as Sartre would say to do this and in essence bracketing ones own world. But rather that one needs to find his own definition to the words and knowledge he sees something that Friedrich Nietzsche would avidly support. After saying man shouldnt be the servant of knowledge; knowledge should be the servant of man. And thus, man shouldnt be subservient to pictures (stereotypes and personal biases), but pictures should be subservient to man.
Posted on: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 18:49:53 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015