The Essence of Language as Saying: The Essential Truth of Being
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The Essence of Language as Saying: The Essential Truth of Being
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Marc Oliver dG. Pasco; School of Humanities, Ateneo de Manila University
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Humanities
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This essay follow Martin Heidegger's reflection on the essential meaning of language and its relation to the meaning of being human. Taking as his point of departure our common understanding of language as an 'instrument' for communication, Heidegger leaps back to the ancient Greek experience of language by pondering the essential meaning of the statement uttered by the Pre-Socratic thinker Parmenides, 'esti gar einai' ('For there is being' or 'Being is'). From here, we see how Heidegger retrieves and re-collects the pirmordial historical utterance of the truth of Being in the Greek experience of language as logos. In this manner, Heidegger shows how a leap back to the origin-al meaning of language through an examination of its etymological roots in the Greek logos may bring us near to the essential meaning of language and consequently 'nearer' to our own essence as human beings. In the end, Heidegger shows us how it is possible for us to gain insights into the myster of who we are and what we ought to be by simply allowing ourselves to be engaged by what the word 'language' essentially means.
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Loyola Schools, Ateneo de Manila University
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2008-05-22
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application/pdf
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http://www.philjol.info/index.php/LSR/article/view/193
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Loyola Schools Review; Vol 6 (2007); 23-46
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en
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Philippines
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