CMST-3120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Logology, Dialectic, World View
6 Oct 2016
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Religion = a center from which all other forms of human motivation gradually diverged: unifying principle. Religion is designed as exceptionally thoroughgoing modes of persuasion. Since the theological use of language is thorough, the close study of theology and its forms will provide us with good insight into the nature of language itself as a motive. Theology: words about god; logology: words about words. Our purpose is to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language. In the study of human motives, we should begin with complex theories of transcendence rather than with the terminologies of simplified laboratory experiment. Whether or not the supernatural exists, there are words for it. There is a sense in which language is not just natural, but really does add a new dimension to the things of nature.
