著者

石川 晃司

出版者

湘南工科大学

雑誌

湘南工科大学紀要 (ISSN:09192549)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.26, no.1, pp.87-99, 1992-03-31

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The problem of language shares an important part not only superficially but fundamentally in socio-political thought and socio-political philosophy. I think that one of the most prominent indexes which divide human beings and other animals is the fact that only human beings have a sphere of consciousness (self-consciousness) and that the origin of human consciousness and that of language are inseparable; in other words, there is a close relation between human essence and language. If we intend to argue some basic problems on socio-political thought and socio-political philosophy, we should start at certain examinations on human nature. And then we cannot ignore the problem of language. In this paper, as an introduction to my study on socio-political thought and socio-political philosophy, I discuss the ralations between language and thought and between language and self-consciousness, using the argument on an essence of language, developped in What is the beauty in the literary expression? written by Ryumei YOSHIMOTO. In this book Yoshimoto takes up language from the viewpoint of expression, which differs from the linguistic approach. But for this reason he can analyze language not as a system which has already been established but in a sphere where language and human consciousness or thought involve and support each other. From my concern for the relation between language and thought Yoshimoto's argument is extremely suggestive.