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| 0618-2048-01 | Nonsense (In Plato, Kant, Kierkegaard & Wittgenstein) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| FACULTY OF HUMANITIES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 2.0
Course description
According to a traditional understanding, the notion of sense signifies the truth-content of a thought or proposition. The lack of sense therefore signifies the simple failure to think a thought or make a claim. Against and beyond this traditional understanding, the notion of nonsense does not signify the simple lack or negation of sense but the affirmation of a sense which does not stand in normative proportion to the truth. The investigation of nonsense is, accordingly, the investigation of the limits of the relationship between truth and sense. The course is devoted to the clarification of the concept of nonsense as it emerges from the writings of four thinkers: Plato, Kant, Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein.