Konsekwencje rozumienia filozofii jako gry i interpretacji językowej

Abstract

Modern problems with value assessment and the pluralist approach to the issues of education and morality are strictly inspired by the specific nature of philosophical thinking. In philosophy, which always provides (willingly or not) the foundations for views and behaviours, everything began from placing accent on the language as a “sign” of reality, when philosophy and language met each other – or rather when philosophy and literature met each other on the field of language and naming. The 20th century philosophy was reduced to language, interpretation, commentary on texts, philosophical hermeneutics. Thus, the view expressed by Friedrich Nietzsche in the 19th century was proven right: “There is no truth, only interpretation of truth” Culture became the area where meanings, concepts and texts are shaped so that using metaphors and allegories one can create new contexts, meanings and texts. The whole cognitive discourse began to take place within the world of language, texts, metaphors, sayings. Are we, therefore, doomed to the language and semantic ambiguity? Should we agree to such propositions and solutions, both philosophical and anthropologic? The culture deprived of the leadership of objectively discovered values may become not so much the carrier of content but the dumpsite of our civilisation.