Praxis, Language, Dialogue

• Authors: Brandon Claycomb , Greig Mulberry
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Human engagement with the world develops and evolves into increasingly social, complex, and explicit modes. This essay examines the evolution of meaningful human engagement from simple embodied activity, to language-less social praxis, and then to praxis incorporating increasingly rich forms of linguistic action, culminating in theory. Each mode of meaningful engagement creates a space in which new modes of meaning can develop. These new ways of experiencing, acting, and communicating create their own meaning contexts, which provide the settings for the further evolution of humans' phenomenological, hermeneutic, and practical involvements. Each mode of meaning gives rise to its successors, allowing humans to acquire new powers to understand and manipulate their environments and each other. This increase and refinement of human power raises ethical issues that we address using the Gadamerian concept of dialogue.

Keywords

EN

Social practices; language; hermeneutics

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human Affairs
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 182-194

Dates

published

2007-12-01

online

2007-12-17

Contributors

author

Brandon Claycomb

• 45 S. National Ave., Fond du Lac, WI 54935 USA

author

Greig Mulberry

• 53 Morgan Ave., Starkville, MS 39762 USA

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10023-007-0016-7