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Medieval Philosophy on Language - Dictionary of Arguments
Gadamer I 438 Language/Word/Object/Medieval/Gadamer: (...) the theological relevance of the problem of language in medieval thought [points] back again and again to the problem of the unity of thought and speech and [brings] (...) thereby (...) a moment to the fore (...) that had not been thought in this way in classical Greek philosophy. The fact that the word is a process in which the unity of what is meant is expressed to perfection - as is thought in verbum speculation (>Word of God/Gadamer) - means something new compared to the Platonic dialectic of the one and many. >Unity and Multiplicity. Because for Plato, the Logos itself moves within this dialectic and is nothing but suffering the dialectic of ideas. There is no real problem of interpretation here in so far as the means of interpretation, the word and the speech, are constantly overtaken by the thinking spirit. Trinity/Gadamer: In contrast to this, we found in the Trinitarian speculation that the process of the divine persons includes the Neoplatonic question of unfolding, i.e. the process of coming forth from the one, and therefore also does justice to the process character of the word for the first time. >Trinity/Gadamer. Scholasticism: But the problem of language could only come to a full breakthrough when the scholastic mediation of Christian thought was combined with Aristotelian philosophy through a new moment, which turned the distinction between divine and human spirit into a positive one and was to gain the greatest significance for the modern age. It is the common ground of the creative. (>Creation Myth/Gadamer.) In it, it seems to me that the position of Nicholas of Cues, which has been so much discussed recently,(1) has its real distinction. >Word of God/Nicholas of Cusa, >Language/Renaissance. 1. Cf. K. Volkmann-Schluck, who seeks to determine the historical location of St. Nicholas from the idea of the "image": Nicolaus Cusanus, 1957; especially pp. 146ff. (as well as J. Koch, Die ars coniecturalis des Nicolaus Cusanus (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, issue 16) and my own works "Nicolaus von Cues und die Philosophie der Gegenwart" (Kl. Schr. Ill, p. 80-88; Vol. 4 of the Ges. Werke) and "Nicolaus von Cues in der Geschichte des Erkenntnisproblems" (Cusanus-Gesellschaft 11 (1975), p. 275-280; Vol. 4 of the Ges. Werke)._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Medieval Philosophy Gadamer I Hans-Georg Gadamer Wahrheit und Methode. Grundzüge einer philosophischen Hermeneutik 7. durchgesehene Auflage Tübingen 1960/2010 Gadamer II H. G. Gadamer The Relevance of the Beautiful, London 1986 German Edition: Die Aktualität des Schönen: Kunst als Spiel, Symbol und Fest Stuttgart 1977 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-28