Invisible Language Its Incalculable Significance for Philosophy [Hardcover]

Invisible Language: Its Incalcuable Significance for Philosophy affirms that a greater awareness of language, philosophy's universal medium, could have altered the history of philosophy beyond recognition. Striking a balance between in-depth studies and more over-arching discussions, Garth L. Hallet proves the greatness of the possibilities of philosophy conducted with fuller linguistic awareness.??Invisible Language: Its Incalcuable Significance for Philosophy reveals that although the use of language is visible or audible, the medium employed boasts neither of these attributes. Garth L. Hallet suggests that from Plato until now, the intangibility of language has exercised a far more profound influence in philosophy than even Wittgenstein came close to demonstrating. Indeed, without that pervasive factor of language, the history of philosophy would have been undeniably different. Yet philosophy is, and can legitimately aspire to be, much more than a struggle between language and human comprehension of it. Ultimately, this book suggests that philosophys positive possibilities, so often obscured by linguistically-inattentive practice, reach as far as human thought can reach.?Chapter 1: Platos PhaedoChapter 2: Aquinass TruthChapter 3: Descartes MeditationsChapter 4: Kants Critique of Pure ReasonChapter 5: Jamess PragmatismChapter 6: Moores Principia EthicaChapter 7: Wittgensteins Tractatus Logico-PhilosophicusChapter 8: Husserls Cartesian MeditationsChapter 9: ConfirmationChapter 10: Concluding Dialectic: Philosophys Incalculable PossibilitiesGarth L. Hallett is a Jesuit priest and longtime dean of the College of Philosophy and Letters at St. Louis University.