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Paradox, Poetry, And Eternity: Socrates, Parmenides, And Nietzsche, Scott Austin
Paradox, Poetry, And Eternity: Socrates, Parmenides, And Nietzsche, Scott Austin
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Abstractly, some metalanguages and their allied languages are such that the metalinguistic truths cannot be put into the language itself without a (fruitful or devastating) paradox which breaks the very rules which the metalanguage itself enunciates for the language. Others are such that the transposition of metalanguage into language occurs without difficulty. The status of philosophy as a purported "science of all sciences" from classical times to the present hangs on this difference; for, unless there can be speech about speech in one’s own (however elaborated) natural language, the metaphysical enterprise sooner or later topples, to be replaced by faith, …