Post by Charlotte on Dec 8, 2018 9:14:27 GMT -5
Meantime I came across note from my great Philosophy Teacher, Roger Weir.
"As soon as the perception that language can be had by a structual insight, unschooled young men toy with it and toy with everybody in term of it because they are putting this insight into the service of something worldly.
Philebus, a Socratic Dialogue written by Plato.
"Put the thing like this. We got this identity of the one and the many cropping up everywhere as the result of the sentences we utter. In every single sentence ever uttered, in the past and in the present, there it is. What we are dealing with is a problem that will assuredly never cease to exist. This is not its first appearance, rather it is in my view something incidental to sentences themselves, never to pass, never to fade.
"As soon as a youg man gets wind of this, he is as delighted as if he discovered an intellectual gold mine. He is beside himself with delight and loves to try every move in the game. First he rolls the stuff to one side, and jumbles it into one, then he undoes it again and takes it to pieces to the confusion first and foremost to himself, next to his neighbors, at the moment, whether they be older, younger, or his own age. He has no mercy on his father or mother or anyone else listening to him, and were he to find an interpreter for animals, he would bedevil them too."
"This structure of language which has a ceiling of what can be talked about accurately yields an insight that this insight itself has a structure.The insight of the mind which sees the limitation of language can be the subject which becomes objects to a deeper subjects which can see that this insight is also somewhat inadequate".
True, when we realize we are no longer understood we stop communicating, and we know that there is no language for the most profound secrets.
"As soon as the perception that language can be had by a structual insight, unschooled young men toy with it and toy with everybody in term of it because they are putting this insight into the service of something worldly.
Philebus, a Socratic Dialogue written by Plato.
"Put the thing like this. We got this identity of the one and the many cropping up everywhere as the result of the sentences we utter. In every single sentence ever uttered, in the past and in the present, there it is. What we are dealing with is a problem that will assuredly never cease to exist. This is not its first appearance, rather it is in my view something incidental to sentences themselves, never to pass, never to fade.
"As soon as a youg man gets wind of this, he is as delighted as if he discovered an intellectual gold mine. He is beside himself with delight and loves to try every move in the game. First he rolls the stuff to one side, and jumbles it into one, then he undoes it again and takes it to pieces to the confusion first and foremost to himself, next to his neighbors, at the moment, whether they be older, younger, or his own age. He has no mercy on his father or mother or anyone else listening to him, and were he to find an interpreter for animals, he would bedevil them too."
"This structure of language which has a ceiling of what can be talked about accurately yields an insight that this insight itself has a structure.The insight of the mind which sees the limitation of language can be the subject which becomes objects to a deeper subjects which can see that this insight is also somewhat inadequate".
True, when we realize we are no longer understood we stop communicating, and we know that there is no language for the most profound secrets.