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May 1, 2003 · literature gives death and dying many r oles to play. At one end of the scale is one of the most common. types of death in all fiction, the discovery of the body. in the whodunnit or murder ...
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Jan 2, 2018 · Abstract. This paper considers how death and dying are presented in literature. A wide range of texts, principally but not exclusively from the English language tradition, is used to illustrate themes.
- John Skelton
- 2003
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the reason a character dies related to the manner of death? Does the form these characters’ deaths take suggest anything about what Shakespeare understood tragedy to be, and how he went about writing it? In response to these questions, this essay presents two central ideas. First, Shakespeare dissemi-
- 2.1 Death as A Language-Game
- 2.2 The Question: What Is Death?
- 2.3 Death Is Not A Thought Or Concept
- 2.4 The Epistemological Primacy of Language
- 2.5 The Death of Mentalistic Meaning
- 2.6 There Is No Non-Linguistic Knowledge of Death
- 2.7 Language-Games Again and Again
- 2.8 What Death Is Not
- 2.9 Imagery and Sensation
- 2.10 Can We Imagine Death?
What mainly characterizes recent philosophy is the central concern with and analysis of language. We note, however, that there are ordinary-language strains in numerous previous philosophers. Our notions of death then must be related to and reduced to paradigms of what we know of what is present before us in the here and now. Wittgenstein presents ...
Does death exist? First tell us what death means, then we will see. The question about death is otherwise a faulty question with no possible answer. Do we mean death or Death with a capital “D,” or the word “death” in quotes? Do we mean death outside of language, somehow beyond language? What is it to have knowledge about death? Can we know anythin...
It is still curious to note that people, and perhaps most philosophers among them, still hold that they have such things as thoughts, ideas, cognitions, intentions, minds, imaginations, inner emotional entities. They do not. All such alleged are pseudo-psychological entities and commit the fallacy of mentalism. Although mentalism is in the literatu...
When starting points are looked by means of which to account for knowledge it is language, which has epistemological primacy. Thought presupposes language, but language does not presuppose thought. Language only presupposes language, itself. Thus, we are in what I call a “linguo-centric” epistemological predicament in regard to our understanding of...
In terms of theories of meaning, people typically think that words just stand for or symbolize ideas, that the words themselves are just vehicles of thought used to communicate ideas from one person to another. Language is not important, only ideas are. We think that we would still think as now do even if we had never learned a language, but we are...
We cannot have knowledge of death without language. There is no non-linguistic knowledge. Knowledge is a complex form of language-uses. Knowledge does not rest on alleged forms of knowing which supposedly transcend language, for example, intuition, special visions, revelation, direct knowledge, knowledge by acquaintance, “reine Gestaltwahrnehmung”,...
Because there are criticisms of language-games, some clarification is needed. By language-games I mean language-uses and all we can do with language. This does not mean that we just use language for a purpose. The meaning is identical with the use. It is within the full language situation. We use the very tool we investigate. There is not a separat...
Now we also know what death is not. It is not outside of language and it is not misuses of language. Error arises when we use words in the wrong language-games. It is not circularities, tautologies, abstractionisms, undefined and unintelligible terms like soul and eternity, faith, dogma, spirit, etc. What goes for evidence is constrained and ascert...
Two further candidates for the category of the non-linguistic are imagery and sensation . On Norwood Hanson’s view our theories and knowledge become part of our seeing. “The knowledge is there in the seeing and not an adjunct of it” . There are infinite ways in which things can be seen. But once again, if there is no language, there is no sensation...
Of course, we do not have an imagination any more than we have a mind. Thus we cannot get around language by speaking of such a mentalistic thing. In any case, it seems that people cannot imagine death or at least they are not very good at it. If one’s cat dies it is a tragedy; if a billion people die overseas it is a statistic. Madeleine Albright,...
- Barbara Maier, Warren A. Shibles
- 2011
To what extent does the literary representation of death refer to the extra-fictional, socio-historically constructed “Death”? Is it moral to represent death in children’s literature? What are the differences and similarities between representing death in literature and death representations in other connected fields?
Oct 22, 2019 · Abstract People worry a lot about death—about how to avoid it, of course, but. also how to think about it. As they develop cognitiv ely from the onset of. conscious awareness in early childhood ...
