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Dialectic, rhetoric and writing: The problem of method

✍ Scribed by Carlo Sini


Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
1990
Tongue
English
Weight
495 KB
Volume
4
Category
Article
ISSN
0920-427X

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✦ Synopsis


The problem of method is the problem of knowledge itself. As it is known, method (methodos) also means way (od6s). Philosophy is at the same time a form of knowledge and a technique of argumentation. In this second meaning, philosophy is mainly an art of both logical and rhetorical word. Consequently a profane voice reveals itself in the signs of philosophic knowledge, which on the one hand establishes the "logistic" (logistike) soul, on the other the totalizing view of truth. Then the philosophic voice requires purification of word and writing from any sensible compromising and identification of truth with the ultrasensible panoramic view. This process is reflected in philosophic writing, which is the origin and the foundation of today's world of science and technology. Scientific and technical knowledge is therefore concentrated on the question of method and loses any reference to knowledge as a way as well as a sensible relationship with things. Hence the crisis of meaning of knowledge nowadays. Deep understanding of such a crisis requires first of all recognition of the fact that the act of thinking is wider than the art of logistic and rhetoric word established by philosophy. In the second place, it requires that a hermeneutic writing of the event of truth is reached, as a more original writing than traditional logical transcription of voice.


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