One of the great Catholic philosophers of our time offers us his thoughts on how language is corrupted. Ceasing to be a means of communicating truth, of entering more intimately into reality, of acquiring wisdom and discernment, language is constantly diverted by those who see it only as an instrument of power. Plato had been able to discern the subtle dangers that sophistry represented in ancient Greece. Pieper takes us back to the concerns of the Greek philosopher by demonstrating that the threat of the misappropriation of the word remains more current than ever.
ISBN: 9782884170338