Communicational Tools of Self-knowledge

AuthorSorea, D.
PositionDepartment of Social Sciences and Communication, Transilvania University of Brasov
Pages77-82
Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov • Vol. 5 (54) No. 1 - 2012
Series VII: Social Sciences • Law
COMMUNICATIONAL TOOLS OF
SELF-KNOWLEDGE
Daniela SOREA1
Abstract: Contemporary Western culture is under the sign of t he interest
for communication. Internet and mobile telephony place over the world,
network-type structures, analogous to those in the Renaissance
representation of the world. Internet ensures, through the very technical
conditions of its use, the creation of a private space wherein the indi vidual
faces himself. The use of the mobile pho ne favours the replacement of the
individual in the network of his personal relations and in his own history.
Internet and mobile telephony support self-knowledge.
Key words: communication, self-knowledge, Internet.
1 Department of Social Sciences and Communication, Transilvania University of Braşov.
1. Introduction
The contemporary West lives under the
bombardment of the information and of the
various radiations emitted by the means of
transmitting them. Referring, for the time
being, with a mixture of pride and anxiety,
to this bombardment, the Westerner
permits meanwhile his own moulding. The
current approach aims at emphasizing the
implication of using the contemporary
communication means, especially the
Internet and the mobile phone, in t he
human process of self-knowledge.
2. The contemporary Westerner’s
orientation towards communication
In the hist ory of phi losophy, the intere st
in the prime principle is f ollowed by the
one in knowledge and then by the one in
communicat ion. The se shifts of the
knowing int erest overl ap, with a w ide
tolerance range, the pass age fro m the
antique philosop hy to the modern and,
respectivel y, contemporar y ones. The
information and fa cts that exist i n
themselves, that can be known and that
can be communicat ed, succeeding
themselves in the core of the
philosophi cal approach, mark its
progressive moving away from the issu e
of the Bein g, sim ultaneousl y with
restraining its cognitive field. To it, it is
what it is, follows i t is what it is known ,
and then it is wha t can be communicated.
The restricti on is a pparent since ,
reorientin g its a pproach, philosophy
attaches t o its n ew study objects, t he
status of reality criter ia, co nsolidating the
insertion o f anthropol ogy into o ntology.
The entra nce of philosophy i nto the
communicati onal p aradigm is highlighted
by its orientation towards the sign, wh ich
is somethin g else than the object a nd
something el se than the idea [1] .
Analytical philosop hy, phil osophical
hermeneutic s and semiology , mainl y in
its st ructuralist d evelopment, pro gram-
matically operate thi s object shift.

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