The “unknown voice” in Western history since Socrates
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Aarne Ruben
Abstract
Socrates remains one of the most prominent paternal figures of Western dialogism and phonocentric paradigm; the man who stirred up the dialectic imaginations of his days. In Plato’s Socratic dialogues, his inner voice (daimonion) sounds as a last-instance statement to cast the light on the final solution of the conversation. In the context of antiquity and following cultural tradition, Socrates was the only hearer of warning signals from inside. The rest of the voices were urging (voices of the imaginable cursed souls, saints, angels, etc.). There was no need for a “personal” dictating voice when a divine dictation was already present. According to Charles Peirce’s classification, a “voice without evident source” or a voice from the head is a dicent indexical legisign.
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- Frontmatter
- Passing-by “Ça va?” checks in clinic corridors
- Globalization and its determinative influence upon the humanities: A semiotic/hermeneutic diagnosis
- Gendering the nation: A case study on the postage stamps of Cyprus
- Clues as information, the semiotic gap, and inferential investigative processes, or making a (very small) contribution to the new discipline, Forensic Semiotics
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- The “unknown voice” in Western history since Socrates
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- Spectatorship as a play on moral ambiguities: Neuro-evolutionary semiotic approach to lowly arousal emotions
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