Great Minds Think Differently: Naturalism and Conventionalism: An assessment on the origins and communicative functions of the language from Plato to Rousseau

Abstract

One of the main questions in social sciences is the origin and formation of language. Although the history of theinquiries about the origin of language dates back to ancient times, it was first and systematically examined in AncientGreece. One of the architects of today's philosophical thinking Plato’s endeavour to discover the formation and thelogic of the signs/names through his own dialogues in Cratylos and partly in Sophist elucidated the language debatesto some extent. The attempt to discover the secrets of language has continued from the time of Plato until the Age ofEnlightenment. The thinkers of the Enlightenment vigorously worked on this issue and some of them contributed tothe subject with major works. Thinkers such as Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Leibniz, Rousseau studied the origins andfunctions of language. Thus, concepts such as language and signs have become one of the basic subjects ofphilosophical writings. In the field of language philosophy, two approaches have increasingly emerged as general andeven obligatory: Naturalism and conventionalism. This study aims to reveal the language theories of historicallyrenowned philosophers and thus to redraw attention to the importance of language. The goal of the study is to drawattention to the importance of articulated language by considering the fact that all meanings generated in daily life, and tried to discover in the field of science are produced by articulated language and its signs. And also the study aims toraise awareness on the medium of language which is one of the basic establishing mechanisms of communicationsystems and even society by revealing philosophical debates. In the study we initially examine Plato's linguistic viewsin his dialogues Cratylos and Sophist at full length, and later try to form a general philosophical perspective onarticulated language by reflecting on certain Enlightenment philosophers such as Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Leibnizand Rousseau.

Keywords

• Dilin kökeni
• dil felsefesi
• iletişim ve dil
• gösterge
• anlam üretimi

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  author = {Dursun, Onur},
  title = {{Great Minds Think Differently: Naturalism and Conventionalism: An assessment on the origins and communicative functions of the language from Plato to Rousseau}},
  journal = {Hacettepe University Journal of the Faculty of Letters},
  volume = {36},
  number = {2},
  pages = {221--243},
  publisher = {Hacettepe {\"U}niversitesi},
  year = {2018},
  month = {6},
  issn = {1301-5737},
  doi = {10.32600/huefd.433460},
  url = {https://hacettepe.hbtech.com.tr/en/publication/aklin-yolu-iki-naturalizm-ya-da-konvansiyonalizm-platondan-rousseauya-dilin-kokeni-ve-islevi-uzerine-bir-sorusturma},
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  abstract = {One of the main questions in social sciences is the origin and formation of language. Although the history of theinquiries about the origin of language dates back to ancient times, it was first and systematically examined in AncientGreece. One of the architects of today's philosophical thinking Plato's endeavour to discover the formation and thelogic of the signs/names through his own dialogues in Cratylos and partly in Sophist elucidated the language debatesto some extent. The attempt to discover the secrets of language has continued from the time of Plato until the Age ofEnlightenment. The thinkers of the Enlightenment vigorously worked on this issue and some of them contributed tothe subject with major works. Thinkers such as Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Leibniz, Rousseau studied the origins andfunctions of language. Thus, concepts such as language and signs have become one of the basic subjects ofphilosophical writings. In the field of language philosophy, two approaches have increasingly emerged as general andeven obligatory: Naturalism and conventionalism. This study aims to reveal the language theories of historicallyrenowned philosophers and thus to redraw attention to the importance of language. The goal of the study is to drawattention to the importance of articulated language by considering the fact that all meanings generated in daily life, and tried to discover in the field of science are produced by articulated language and its signs. And also the study aims toraise awareness on the medium of language which is one of the basic establishing mechanisms of communicationsystems and even society by revealing philosophical debates. In the study we initially examine Plato's linguistic viewsin his dialogues Cratylos and Sophist at full length, and later try to form a general philosophical perspective onarticulated language by reflecting on certain Enlightenment philosophers such as Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Leibnizand Rousseau.},
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