Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Dogma of Meaning

The Dogma of Meaning

Martínez Sanz, Héctor

Paperback

Philosophy

ISBN13: 9798705701049
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 6 2021
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
In The Dogma of Meaning, Héctor Martínez argues that Western philosophy, since Plato and Aristotle, has developed around the existential demand that if life has value, then it must have meaning. Its meaning is its value. This demand for meaning, as a uniquely human demand, has remained unquestioned throughout the history of philosophy due to the linguistic bias of thought: a prejudice of a philosophy that begins by thinking with words and ends by taking words and their meanings (sense) as the very object of its philosophizing. It is a philosophy that began by asking about reality, deviated when attempting to explain reality, and ultimately came to believe that the meaning of the linguistic discourse with which it explains reality is the answer to the original question. Explanation and meaning have since been linked as substitutes for reality, because whenever we speak of reality we use words and their meanings, which we seek for consolation. Meaning has only been questioned in its various named manifestations (religious, anthropocentric, scientific...), but the demand for meaning, which arises from the fear of death, has endured. The author counters this demand with a vitalist attitude that affirms the value of life in itself, without displacing its foundation beyond life and the present moment in which it unfolds. Throughout this short essay, while invoking well-known figures (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, Marx, Bergson, Heidegger), Martínez grounds his reflection primarily in lesser-known or marginal thinkers such as Peter Wessel Zapffe, Georges Canguilhem, Ayn Rand, Giorgio Colli, Rüdiger Safranski, and E. M. Cioran

Also in

Philosophy

View All