Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: Man könnte auch sagen: einer denkt, wenn er in bestimmter Weise lernt.-Wittgenstein When speak ing of "re li gions," one is likely to re fer quite mat ter-of-factly to the "teach ings" of Zoroaster or to those of the Bud dha.And rightly so, for much of the (trans lat ed) vo cab u lary of what we per sist in call ing "re li gions" is os ten si bly ped agog i cal (though the Greek et mol ogy of that term might, of course, give us pause).Consider, for in stance, the sig nif cance of doc trine and of dis ci pline (to in voke Latin ate terms) or the di verse fg ures of learn ing and-but where shall it be found?wisdom (to turn to the Ger man ic).With these and oth ers, oc ca sions might have abounded to learn some thing about, well, learn ing.I write this out of a sense of won der.For when, not a mo ment be fore 1758, and bliss fully ig no rant of the fact that Yuval Noah Harari would in 2011 make a kill ing with the "brand" (you know, like Peugeot), 1 Linnaeus came up with the phrase homo sa pi ens, he did jux ta pose the no to ri ous Greek say ing-in Lat in-right next to it: "Nosce Te Ipsum," wrote Linnaeus, pre sum ably to sig nify that a few steps might re main be fore claiming for our selves, with regard to wis dom, knowl edge, or in deed learn ing, "mis sion ac complished."As Talal Asad puts it with im pec ca bly re strained stle, there have been, in the past, cir cum stances that "in di cated that the learn ing pro cess was in com pleteor more dras ti cal ly, that it had failed." 2 Such co or di na tes-in com plete ness, fail ure-might well gov ern "the learning pro cess," the "prac ti cal pro cess of learn ing" to which Asad has de voted much at ten tion here and else where ("a 'nat u ral' life that is born, that learns, suc ceeds and fails" 3 ).It might none the less seem awk ward of me to float a poorly refreshed mon i ker for the hu man here, or worse, to pro pose a def ni tion for an thro pol ogy
Source: Critical Times
Author: Gil Anidjar
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
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