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Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power - Softcover

Pieper, Josef

 
9780898703627: Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power
Softcover
ISBN 10: 089870362X ISBN 13: 9780898703627
Verlag: IGNATIUS PR, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

One of the great Catholic philosophers of our day reflects on the way language has been abused so that, instead of being a means of communicating the truth and entering more deeply into it, and of the acquisition of wisdom, it is being used to control people and manipulate them to achieve practical ends.

Reality becomes intelligible through words. Man speaks so that through naming things, what is real may become intelligible. This mediating character of language, however, is being increasingly corrupted. Tyranny, propaganda, mass-media destroy and distort words. They offer us apparent realities whose fictive character threatens to become opaque. Josef Pieper shows with energetic zeal, but also with ascetical restraint, the path out of this dangerous situation. We are constrained to see things again as they are and from the truth thus grasped, to live and to work.

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Josef Pieper, perhaps the most popular Thomist philosopher of the twentieth century, was schooled in the Greek classics and the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas. He also studied philosophy, law, and sociology, and he was a professor at the University of Munster, West Germany. His numerous books have been widely praised by both the secular and religious press.

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Verlag
IGNATIUS PR
Erscheinungsdatum
1992
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
089870362X
ISBN 13 
9780898703627
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
54
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