Hegel held that philosophy needs no special terminology beyond the philosopher’s native idiom
Evidence
‘An idiom’, we were saying before. According to Hegel, the philosopher must think in his or her own, that is, native, idiom, the sole material for the work of philosophy, and must strip off all the ornaments that come from a technical or artificial language (Kunstsprache): … Philosophy therefore stands in no need of a special terminology; true, some words have to be taken from foreign languages but these have already acquired through usage the right of citizenship in it (i.e., in the philosophical realm) – and an affected purism would be most out of place where it was the distinctive meaning which was of decisive importance. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1136
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines Hegel’s stance on philosophical language: no Kunstsprache, native idiom as sole material.
- XREF: Connects to this reader’s plasticity work: idiom as the material medium parallels how plasticity reworks the given grammatical/philosophical forms from within rather than importing a technical metalanguage. — connects to: Philosophy needs no artificial terminology because usage naturalizes foreign words — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1137; Philosophy needs no technical language but only native idiom with naturalized borrowings; Hegel rejects ready-made philosophical idioms to preserve language’s alien character, not national purity. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1153 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Philosophy needs no technical language but only native idiom with naturalized borrowings
#corroborates(0.95) - Philosophy needs no artificial terminology because usage naturalizes foreign words
#corroborates(0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1137 - Hegel’s ‘foreign language’ critique targets jargon, not national tongues
#expands(0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1152 - Hegel rejects ready-made philosophical idioms to preserve language’s alien character, not national purity.
#qualifies(0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1153