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The title of this article uses a phrase brought to philosophic significance by Robert Brandom, when 10 years ago he published his opus magnum Making it Explicit-1 This impressive book is widely regarded as an important achievement in analytic philosophy for the masterly manner in which it spells out in detail a comprehensive framework for understanding language and thereby our relationship to the world. But Brandom stretches the realm of analytic philosophy by explicitly claiming th...The title of this article uses a phrase brought to philosophic significance by Robert Brandom, when 10 years ago he published his opus magnum Making it Explicit-1 This impressive book is widely regarded as an important achievement in analytic philosophy for the masterly manner in which it spells out in detail a comprehensive framework for understanding language and thereby our relationship to the world. But Brandom stretches the realm of analytic philosophy by explicitly claiming the relevance of all this for our conception of man. «In making it explicit», he points out in the very last paragraph of his great book, «we make ourselves explicit».2 And indeed: a certainly plausible way of reading Making it Explicit focuses on the manner, in which Brandom unveils the logical powers of language as so many constituents of our specifically human way to life our lives. For Brandom, human beings are beings that can be characterized by their ability to make explicit linguistically what is implicit in our interactions with the natural world and the other members of our species.» weiterlesen» einklappen

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