LA FILOSOFÍA DEL DIÁLOGO INTERIOR: DESDE EL SEMEION DAIMONION SOCRÁTICO HASTA EL EXISTENCIALISMO
THE PHILOSOPHY OF INNER DIALOGUE: FROM THE SOCRATIC SEMEION DAIMONION TO EXISTENTIALISM

Summary/Abstract: In this article we analyze the idea of «inner speech» from a philosophical perspective. To do this, we start with the psychological category as a tertium quid between the ideas of thought and language. We will show that philosophers has always put inner speach in the center of their interests, from the socratic semeion daimonion to the existentialist «call of conscience», from the musical exhortation of Phaedon to the myth of the inner city, the Christian theology of prayer and confession, Cartesian introspection, German idealism and Gandhi’s inner voice, among other episodes. The notion of inner speech serves us to illuminate important moments in the history of philosophy and religion, as well as helping us to understand the versatility of the phenomenon beyond the psychological category, which ranges from the negativity of criticism and retraction to the positive character of Christian life, from non-transferable speech to a universal language linked to silence.

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