Difficult fragment about language

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Re: Difficult fragment about language

Postby Enjolras on Thu Aug 06, 2009 6:22 am

On the question of the insistence of the question of “who?”, does the emphasis placed on it for you stem from science (I’m thinking physics -"relativity") and not exclusively that of a philosophical discourse (if for a moment we consider the two courses as radically separate)?

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"Some lama sabachtani always ends history, and cries out our inability to keep still: I must give a meaning to that which does not have one. In the end, being is given to us as impossible".
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Re: Difficult fragment about language

Postby sparkinthedark on Thu Aug 06, 2009 8:01 am

Enjolras wrote:On the question of the insistence of the question of “who?”, does the emphasis placed on it for you stem from science (I’m thinking physics -"relativity") and not exclusively that of a philosophical discourse (if for a moment we consider the two courses as radically separate)?

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From a philosophical discourse. The human being is a unity in the same way a little village is a unity.
I certainly don't make use of the classical concept of "subject", but sometimes I use the word "who" (metaphorically, in a non essentialist way) when I'm talking about someone who has immanent power, whose "mind may enjoy very special relations established between effects in a situation of pure exteriority". That's not really a "who", but deserves to be called that way.
"Ich wohne in meinem eigenen Haus,
Hab Niemandem nie nichts nachgemacht
Und — lachte noch jeden Meister aus,
Der nicht sich selber ausgelacht."
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