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Old 01-Jul-2007, 19:35
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Default Re: A casual topic

Dr Jamshid,Liberté, égalité, Fraternité is originally a freemason motto borrowed by the Enlightened harbingers of lnotre République. Funny isn't it.

I chose the sentence doxies of the doxa on purpose for it exemplifies a subeconomy inherent to language and writing . The question, after all ,didn't entail any answer.

However, I will take back Bianca's last sentence : It depends on our views on established truths...
I first of all, because I'm dubious about sociology which is, nowadays, at the top of its popularity, takes the individual as the starting point of my reasoning and leaves aside groups minorities or majorities albeit the fact, I grant, that everyone of us belongs, willy-nilly, to a society and a group. Sociologits have been tackling the issue successfully.

Language as many other "objects"of the socius are prior to the individuaL
That's another point. Plurality is in every individual.
After marking these obvious facts, I firstwonder what could be wrong with the doxa that is the general opinion, codes, social positions, propositions of truth, and differents answers to life and manhood ( scientific, popular)?
Nothing, provided that the individual reaches happiness and freedom.
and yet, is not the individual fooled ' DrJamshid' word' for the sake of some universal principles and general purposes ? The general interest or its opposite the egoistic appraisal are parts of the doxa. Moral values are here at stake : To think in favour of the doxa or stand against, good or evil. One can follow one of these propositions and consequently belongs to the community.
I don't think -and I claim it again- to escape the doxa . However, I guess the individual hasn't got a proper place .
To be aware of the fact that language (for its the primal medium) is fraught with common truths , general propositions and presupposed parcels of meaning. One should break through the linearity of doxa and its communicative tenet. To question , decipher and criticise every sample of discourse . Are we entering culture ?
Knowing that language in its linguistic stratum ( stylistic, rhetorical , syntactical strata) are inheritance of the general , can the individual stamp language with her/his singularity From language to writing there must be a place, a nexus where general matter( language) and personal history meet:Can we call it the act of writing? Personal history, that is psychological conflicts (nevrosis),is moulded into general words and leaves its print ( I'm back on semiotics and Kristeva). The act of writing as a place of freedom safe from the yoke of general propositions. The act of writing leaves the soul at rest to the nearest point to eternity ( reminds me of a Christian belief).
The question is Can(should) one share this privilege with the community? Dr Jamshid: In your writings,you offer moments of freedom . That's the reason why I once asked you why you kept on editing your texts. ( personal conflicts ,urge to mould some inner struggles into prose or poetry let' s call it proesy). Education comes to the fore now : to teach how to read and deconstruct!
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