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Tetsugaku: tradurre la parola filosofia

Nishi si interessa soprattutto alla filosofia. La considera regina delle scienze, un’asserzione che parrebbe fichtiana, se non fosse per lo sfondo positivistico in cui si inscrive. Fu Nishi a imporre la sua traduzione giapponese del termine «filosofia» (philosophia). Non fu una scelta semplice, vista l’enorme differenza tra la lingua giapponese e il greco. Egli propose vari traducenti: rigaku («scienza del principio regolatore dell’universo» o «scienza della ragione»), kyurigaku («scienza della esaustività del principio regolatore dell’universo o della ragione») e tetsugaku («scienza della saggezza»). Fu l’ultimo termine a prevalere; anche in Cina la filosofia fu definita che-hsüeh, espressione equivalente a quella giapponese. Nishi considera la filosofia una forma di sapere relativo alla saggezza, anziché un «amore della sapienza» nel senso greco. La traduzione giapponese attribuisce un maggior valore alla figura del filosofo, da Platone relegato a semplice «amico» (o «amante»); della sapienza, poi, neppure della saggezza!

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Philosophy is erotic, not just epistemic

Socrates only seems to embody a weak paradox. On the one hand, Socrates is declared the wisest man in Greece by the Oracle at Delphi. On the other hand…

The Book Of Dead Philosophers (critchley, Simon) #philosophy #wisdom #knowledge #love #justice

Augustine advocates the devaluation of spoken word and written sign in favor of mental concept

In close analogy to this devaluation of the written word against the spoken one, Augustine in his later theory of verbum mentis (mental word) is advocating…

Medieval Semiotics (meier-oeser, Stephan) #words #spoken-words #language

Bacon distinguishing two modes of imposition: formal and tacit

Bacon intends to solve the resulting difficulties (which every causal theory of meaning based on the concepts of ‘reference setting’ and ‘reference borrowing’…

Medieval Semiotics (meier-oeser, Stephan) #language #words #imposition #place

IT cannot be made an object

The difficulty is not only that language is dualistic, insofar as words are labels for mutually exclusive classes. The problem is that IT is so much more…

The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are #words #language #difficulties #objects #sense

Lexical fields (structuralism)

The second is the idea of structuralism, in which every part of the structure of a language is related. Think of it like this: the real world is a plain patch…

12 Untranslatable Words (and Their Translations) | David Shariatmadari | Commentisfree | The Guardian #words #language #Sapir-Whorf-hypothesis

Meaning of snow for eskimos

“We have [In English] the same word for falling snow, snow on the ground, snow packed hard like ice, slushy snow, wind-driven flying snow – whatever the…

12 Untranslatable Words (and Their Translations) | David Shariatmadari | Commentisfree | The Guardian #words #language