On the Individual and Historical Acquisition of Language
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Janet Ayers Academic Center, Room 4094
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Presentation
Start Date
23-9-2024 2:00 PM
Description
Humans, unlike other animals with language, must acquire their language, each individually, although it must be waiting there for us as a historical product of other humans, and we alter it in history, making it (the most?) prominent aspect of what Heidegger terms our thrownness (Geworfenheit), that is, how human beings are "thrown" into existence without a sense of where we come from or why.
Recommended Citation
Rand, Sebastian, "On the Individual and Historical Acquisition of Language" (2024). Humanities Symposium. 32.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2024/2024/32
On the Individual and Historical Acquisition of Language
Janet Ayers Academic Center, Room 4094
Humans, unlike other animals with language, must acquire their language, each individually, although it must be waiting there for us as a historical product of other humans, and we alter it in history, making it (the most?) prominent aspect of what Heidegger terms our thrownness (Geworfenheit), that is, how human beings are "thrown" into existence without a sense of where we come from or why.
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