Carlos Vaz Ferreira on intellectual flourishing as intellectual liberation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21597662 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Juan Garcia Torres (0000-0001-7514-6694, Wingate University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1374-1395 |
| Publication date | 2024-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal for the History of Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0960-8788 • E-ISSN: 1469-3526 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09608788.2024.2315593 |
| OpenAlex | W4392369242 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
I argue for a substantive interpretation of Carlos Vaz Ferreira’s account of intellectual flourishing as intellectual liberation. For Vaz Ferreira, I argue, there is an inescapable master-slave dynamic between language and language users, so that flourishing intellectually essentially involves a type of mastery of language that frees up thinking from enslaving linguistic/conceptual confusions and thus facilitates the acquisition of truth. Central to this project are Vaz Ferreira’s most interesting, and radical, views on the nature of language signification and thus on human’s ability to accurately describe and know reality, for failing to keep these linguistic limitations in mind, Vaz Ferreira argues, is a central way for language to enslave humans to confused thinking and thus prevent their intellectual flourishing
Flourishing · Liberation · Chemistry · Critical Realism in Sociology · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Social Psychology · Biochemistry
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |