Philosophy needs no technical language but only native idiom with naturalized borrowings
Evidence
āAn idiomā, 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 artiļ¬cial language (Kunstsprache): ā¦ 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) ā and an affected purism would be most out of place where it was the distinctive meaning which was of decisive importance. ā Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1136
Categorization
Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims
- CANDY: Hegelās anti-purism doctrine ā borrowed words gain citizenship ā is a compact, quotable stance on language.
Related
- Hegel held that philosophy needs no special terminology beyond the philosopherās native idiom (similarity 0.94)
- Philosophy needs no artificial terminology because usage naturalizes foreign words (similarity 0.91)
- Hegel rejects ready-made philosophical idioms to preserve languageās alien character, not national purity. (similarity 0.85)
- Every language is already speculative and philosophy need only work with its accidents (similarity 0.85)
- Hegelās āforeign languageā critique targets jargon, not national tongues (similarity 0.84)