One of the great Catholic philosophers of our day reflects on the way Language has been abused so that, instead of being a means of communicating the truth and entering more deeply into it, and of the acquisition of wisdom, it is being used to control people and manipulate them to achieve practical ends.
We are constrained to see things again as they are and from the truth thus grasped, to live and to work..
Josef Pieper shows with energetic zeal, but also with ascetical restraint, the path out of this dangerous situation.
They offer us apparent realities whose fictive character threatens to become opaque.
Tyranny, propaganda, mass-media destroy and distort words.
This mediating character of language, however, is being increasingly corrupted.
Man speaks so that through naming things, what is real may become intelligible.
Reality becomes intelligible through words.
One of the great Catholic philosophers of our day reflects on the way Language has been abused so that, instead of being a means of communicating the truth and entering more deeply into it, and of the acquisition of wisdom, it is being used to control people and manipulate them to achieve practical ends
