Vocabulary

In this week’s Main Project post we are going to be talking about the Babylonian creation myth found in the Enuma Elis. After thinking about it for quite a bit I decided to put forward a rather straight telling of the story. I plan, over the course of the week, to flesh out the philosophical…

“Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt” – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 1922 (The limits of my language mean the limits of my world) Meta- (Gr. μετά): The prefix meta comes from the greek preposition  originally meaning “with,” “beyond,” “after” or “among.” Its meaning evolved in different contexts, particularly linguistic, philosophical and technical…

Οὐκ ἐμοῦ, ἀλλὰ τοῦ Λόγου ἀκούσαντας, σοφὸν τὸ πάντ’ εἶναι ἕν. – Heraclitus “Listening not to me but to the logos, it is wisdom to recognize that all things are one” (translation mine).   1) Hermeneutics: The methodology of interpretation, especially of texts such as literature, religious scripture, legal documents or philosophical works. One uses hermeneutics…