Charles Taylor: "The Language Animal" - Institute for Social Justice
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- In The Language Animal, Professor Charles Taylor shows that the accounts of the nature of language that have dominated analytic philosophy in recent decades are much too narrow, focusing on the function language plays in encoding information, at the expense of the constitutive powers of language. In this lecture, Professor Taylor refocuses attention on the creative, meaning-making, and meaning-articulating powers of language.
Professor Taylor is one of the most important thinkers of the last half-century and is the recipient of the Berggruen Prize, the Templeton Prize, the Kyoto Prize, and the John W. Kluge Prize (the Nobel Prize for scholars in the humanities and the social sciences). A philosopher and public intellectual of enormous range and depth, Taylor has achieved a very large and diverse readership through the huge impact of such books as Sources of the Self (1989), Multiculturalism and the Politics of Recognition (1994), and his magnum opus, A Secular Age (2007), hailed by the New York Times as “a work of stupendous breath and erudition.”
The Language Animal is published by Harvard University Press:
www.hup.harvard...
Recorded at the Institute for Social Justice on 22 April 2016, ACU North Sydney (Cameraygal Country).
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Video by Chris Wiseman and Simon Dougherty.
Thank you, Charles Taylor, for this discussion .
I have read many books on various subjects, beginning as a child. Philosophy, history, literature, sciences, religions, music, and art.
One book that was also in my Papa's library was "Substance and Function," Einstein's Theory of Relativity by Ernst Cassirer, copywrite 1923, The Open Court Publishing Company of Chicago.
A poison dart frog makes and raise their young in a very special way. A father will place each one tadpoles in its own tiny pool of water. He might have 5 other tadpoles, but he must remember where he puts them, and if the water dries out, he must find another one.
Fathers are bigger than a human thumbnail. There is no food here, somewhere in the forrest is mum. A female can do something a male cannot. But first dad must lead his partner to their hungry tadpole, and mother deals with the problem. She lays a single unfertilized egg, and her tadpole much needed meal. For the next six weeks, parents continue their rounds of teamwork and memory.
Heraclitus stated that one can not step into the same river twice. Nature is hidden in nature.
Mothering nature Mothering nature.
Professor Michael Hudson's books and lectures on geopolitical economics I regard highly as I do you, since I have your lectures and acquiring your books.
Charles Taylor critiques the narrow focus of recent analytical philosophy, particularly its emphasis on language and logic. He argues that this focus can lead to neglecting broader philosophical questions about human existence, ethics, and politics. Taylor advocates for a more expansive approach that includes the richness of human experience and interdisciplinary insights. This broader perspective can help address the ethical and political dimensions of our lives, ensuring that philosophy remains relevant and connected to real-world issues.
brilliant!
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anything that has human language, cannot be an animal
17:00 >> develop new vocabulary regestalt felt experience
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