THE MIX OF LANGUAGES. A SOURCE OF TRANSDISCIPLINARY CONFLICTS Cover Image

LE MELANGE DES LANGAGES. UNE SOURCE DES CONFLITS TRANSDISCIPLINAIRES
THE MIX OF LANGUAGES. A SOURCE OF TRANSDISCIPLINARY CONFLICTS

Author(s): Marcel Bodea
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: explication; knowledge; language; communication; ethics values; interdisciplinarity.

Summary/Abstract: The Mix of Languages. A Source of Transdisciplinary Conflicts. Epistemological criticism will be applied in those cases when the claims of certain constructs to represent a particular kind of knowledge are not legitimate. The communication of knowledge in society must be made in a correct way. We understand correctness as “justness and neutrality towards knowledge”. However, there may be political, ideological, religious, or other interests in promoting certain kind of knowledge, which weaken the foundations of a society based on knowledge. Certainly, The incompetence, the lack of culture, the existential or value-engagements, the material interests extend from incorrect information to disinformation and cheating, and reach as far as manipulation and recruitment. Therefore the timeliness of the proposed research topic is supported, on the one hand, by the recognized value of knowledge in society, and on the other hand, by the parazite phenomena which accompany the presence of knowledge in society - imposture, deception, credulity, hidden interests - which ask for an immediat response of the community directly involved in cognitive actions: philosophers, scientists, theologists, etc. In a society based on knowledge the critical attitude towards everything that pretends to represent itself as knowledge, and implicitely towards the consequences of such claims is a deontological and ethical demand.

  • Issue Year: 56/2011
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 73-81
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: French
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