第21回CAPEレクチャー:仏教学と哲学のコラボレーション
日時:2013年7月23日(火)16:30-18:00
場所:京都大学文学部総合研究棟2号館1階第8演習室
講演者:Chien-hsing Ho (Nanhua University (Taiwan))
タイトル:How to say the unsayable
概要:
A number of traditional philosophers and religious thinkers advocated an ineffability thesis to the effect that the ultimate reality cannot be expressed as it truly is by human concepts and words. However, if X is ineffable, the question arises as to how words can be used to gesture toward it. We can’t even say that X is unsayable, because in doing so, we would have made it sayable. In my talk, I examine the solution offered by the fifth-century Indian grammarian-philosopher Bhartrhari and develop it into a linguistic strategy based on the imposition-cum-negation method. The purpose is to show how we can non-contradictorily say, or rather indicate, the unsayable