LINGUISTIC TURN AND PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS
Language-use is such an impressive and fascinating human capacity that human beings are called homo loquens - speaking beings. Speaking is not only natural for human beings but also distinctive of human species, in fact, so distinctive that human being is defined in terms of the speaking: "man...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2009
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Journal of Dharma
Year: 2009, Volume: 34, Issue: 2, Pages: 135-151 |
| Further subjects: | B
LINGUISTIC
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Volltext (kostenfrei) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | Language-use is such an impressive and fascinating human capacity that human beings are called homo loquens - speaking beings. Speaking is not only natural for human beings but also distinctive of human species, in fact, so distinctive that human being is defined in terms of the speaking: "man shows himself as the entity which talks. Language enables human beings, thus, to be precisely that living being which they are: as the speaking beings, human beings are human. Language provides a determinative characteristic to human nature: "the ability to speak is what marks man as man" and, according to Heidegger, language is the "foundation of human being |
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| ISSN: | 0253-7222 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Dharma
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