[lit-ideas] Plato as the first constructivist
- From: Torgeir Fjeld <torgeir_fjeld@xxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 19:09:42 +0000 (GMT)
Social constructivism doesn't hold much of an esteem currently (doesn't hold
much of a currency, estametly), nevertheless and nonwithstanding, Plato
hisselfes held there's a social side to things in their constructs. As per
below, and see also further clever authorial comments as per piss.
From http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/cratylus.html
Socrates: Well, now, let me take an instance;- suppose that I call a man a
horse or a horse a man, you mean to say that a man will be rightly called a
horse by me individually, and rightly called a man by the rest of the world;
and a horse again would be rightly called a man by me and a horse by the
world:- that is your meaning?
Hermogenes: He would, according to my view.
PS:
Let's say there's three possibl positions as to regarding the relation language
to man and their contexts-
a) man makes up words, so that when gregory, say, arrives, i decide to hail him
horsely "hey, horse!"
b) words make up man, so that when gregory, say, arrives, words have decided
that i hail him manly "hey, man!"
c) man makes up words howee\ver not in conditions of his own makes, so that
when gregory cums -- fnally -- i hail him. period.
three and only three options.
yrs.
phatic
(inquisitor)
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