Really Trying to Mean

It is no accident that the best writers tend to be amongst the most predatory and most thoughtful of readers. To be called into nitty-grittyful existence a text cannot stand by itself that is, it cannot unrecorded outside of culture. When we ordinate that a particular text means roughlything, we are incorporating our own ideas as readers into what we envisage the author meant, ultimately producing another version of what the text really means. This is a significant delineation that brings aside the notion of reading, writing, and interpretation in the realm of discourse.Worlds collide in the act of interiorizing alphabetic literacy. Truth and meaning become contingent upon the heterogeneity of thought that is necessary to determine how a text relates to the reality of the reader. In Ongs words, The text has no meaning until someone reads it, and to make sense it must be interpreted, which is to say related to the readers world. Following this lead we can say that we create me aning except we are not the original creator because the reading from which we base our conceptions has been in existence since before Socrates himself.To make up from this past, Jaspers locates the reality and the implications of historical thought when he writes, It is impossible not to form an find of the historic Socrates. What is more, some image of Socrates is indispensable to our philosophical thinking. We have an indispensable point of consultation to discourse in the image of Socrates in our reading of Socrates so that today no philosophical thought is possible unless Socrates is get, if only as a pale shadow. The import of this type of reading, a reading with a historical point of reference to the current reality, is in the veins of western sandwich thought going back to Socrates while at the making Socrates present in todays dialogue, if only as a pale shadow. Jaspers and Ong are alluding to the notion of a certain kind of synthesis, as Taylor will help to flesh out . Taylor questions what this all ultimately means to doctrine and to our lives, What is the real significance of Socrates in the history of Western thought? Simply put, he created the intellectual and moral tradition by which Western civilization has incessantly since lived. The role of Socrates is, as Ong and Jaspers also believe, is a never ending presence in the paradigm of Western civilization. Socrates is therefore still very much alive in philosophy today. His image alone represents the ongoing debates taking place at conferences, in mid-terms, and in the public dialogue. The reality of his death defies the fact that he maintains a presence today. Speaking of letters and reading between the lines of history will allow us to create another reality than the one of alarm clocks, lunch breaks, and taxes a debate that resonates all the room back to before Socrates drank the hemlock.