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In Service to the Return

Preface


This paper investigates the concept of the Word. Not any words in particular, but the concept that makes us think that these marks and noises we make mean something and have real bearing on our world. Indeed, these marks do have bearing on our world, but it is of a sort that I think we tend to misunderstand. I begin this essay, by considering what this concept has meant to various cultures, then narrowing it down to the two that I think have had the most effect on our ways of thinking, the Greek and the Hebrew. I try to explore some of the thoughts which have been carried by these words in service to clarifying the nature of existence: Being. En route to my conception of the meaning of Being and the meaning of the Word, I hope to clarify the only place where these two concepts matter, that is us, the humans. I will visit upon the thoughts of Parmenides, Heraclitus, Sartre, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and very briefly, Levinas and Wittgenstein in hopes of rendering an old w...

Posted by: Angelia Holliday

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