With Exact Words
“Occupying oneself with public language and its quality is neither a luxury for intellectuals nor a question for academics. It is a crucial duty of civil ethics.”
You cannot think clearly if you cannot speak and write clearly. These are the words of the philosopher John Searle, a theoretician on the relationship between language and institutional reality.
Societies are constructed and held together essentially on a linguistic premise: based on the fact that saying something involves a commitment to the truth and correctness with respect to the listener.
Not observing this commitment puts the first social contract of the community in danger, that is, the trust in a shared language. The antidote is civil writing, clear and democratic, respectful of words and ideas. Writing well, in every field, has a direct correspondence to the quality of reasoning and thought. It implies clarity of ideas on the part of whoever is writing and produces in the reader the perception of honesty.
Publication date: 10.09.2015
Publisher: Laterza
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