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Plato, thus, is pointing in a direction that many years later Marshall McLuhan (although with a different mood and, of course, from another historical and cultural matrix) would also travel when theorizing about the mia. II Writing is a mium, and as such, it generates an undeniable impact on the way we approach reality and represent it . The phonetic alphabet, typical of Western culture, the written word and the invention of the printing press, which allow the massification of the book, are aspects whose confluence in the mid-15th century determin in a hegemonic way the transmission of cultural content and the establishment of a peculiar way of perceiving the world. Seek His Own Interest He  But this scenario – and this is one of the core ideas of McLuhan’s conception – has been radically transform after the emergence of electronic means of communication and information. Marshall McLuhan, the famous…

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Pharus or Beauty. Is a famous dialogue. Written by Plato. In addition to the central theme announc through the title of the work, some of its passages are also dicat to addressing the issue of the transmission of knowlge and the role that writing plays in this. The philosopher of the Academy, bringing up a myth of Egyptian origin, gives an account of the harm that comes with the use of this mium. Plato is convinc that true knowlge, that knowlge that would lead the philosopher to the august contemplation of archetypal ideas – those that constitute the true, imperishable and eternal world – cannot be transmitt through writing, since it cannot It is but a sum of inert characters that only Inflate Itself He Does Be formulat by someone who reads what is written. This is one of the reasons why plato uses dialogue as an exemplary means of…

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God, the soul and the universe conceiv as a totalizing idea. Thus, under the label of ontology, the disquisitions undertaken by philosophers dicat to treading the misty territories of being were delimiting a philosophical discipline with its own name, giving rise to the formulation of various theories about fundamental objects using a specializ conceptual lexicon, and, at the same time, they consolidat the flight towards transcendent planes following the route that was indicat by that ancient and equivocal meaning concentrat in the expression “metaphysics”, since, in effect, those investigations strove to reveal the deep structure of what exists, giving life to entities that no longer referr to the world “down here”, but, with increasing insistence, Has No Jealousy It Project themselves beyond the mundane boundaries to apprehend, without further ado, the essence of entities that presumably constitut “the most real », but which could not be access using the senses.…

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In the middle of the 16th century. Johann Clauberg would use for the first time the term. Ontology” (from the Greek ὄντος (ontos): what is, what exists): this notion is found in the prologue of his book. Elementa philosophiae sive ontosophia , publish in 1646. From then on, this term would be us profusely and works such as Ontologia, sive de ente in genere , by Jean Le Clerc, would appear in 1692, and later, in 1729, Christian Wolff would persist in its use by publishing Philosophia prima sive Ontologia (Marías, 1954). Proposes Love Is Patient and With the advent of this new term, a little more confusion was add to the scenario in which the problem of metaphysics was deploy, since under the same name the reference to the transcendent ins and outs of the world (cosmology), the soul (psychology) persist. rational) and the supreme entity (theodicy), these entities…

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vOf everything that exists. A science that was systematically integrat by those principles would constitute the “first philosophy”, that is, a type of paradigmatic knowlge, a supreme knowlge that would embody full wisdom. Thus, an expression that only referr to the position occupi by some writings comes to designate the type of knowlge that aristotle identifi with the maximum knowlge in the hierarchy of human knowlge . « ta meta ta physica » was contract by use and at some point in history it became simply «metaphysics»: a term that would begin to make history. Practice of Paul of Tarsus  The passage of years, centuries and millennia, and the discursive traffic that philosophers generat, would bring about a transformation in this concept. At some point in history, the word “metaphysics” began to designate a certain philosophical discipline that was only concern with studying the categories referring to the different orders…

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