Abstract: Abstract Philosophy is sometimes presented as a system of propositions. The fundamental model is then a legein ti kata tinos. “Saying something about something” would be paradigmatic of every philosophy. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and other thinkers, however, have pointed out various difficulties inherent to this model. Hegel argued that the determination of being or the universe must lie in a kind of self-determination through which the inner truth of the totality unfolds and explicates itself, and that the truth of beings is neither a something nor a thesis or ensemble of theses, but nothing else than the comprehensive, self-articulating identity of all determinations. If it is not possible to isolate the said from the sayer, a revolution in philosophy and metaphilosophy is inevitable. This chapter discusses the philosophy of saying something about something to someone. It examines receptivity, (self-)critique, individuality, speaking and listening and the logic of dialogue (dialogic), the arguments of Emmanuel Levinas, ethics and ontology, and addressing thought.
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-03-14
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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