Question 6
Reading and writing, as well as language, can allow someone to experience a world they never knew existed before. To broaden your vocabulary and understanding of words is to broaden your thought capability. to know more is to be able to think more. freedom is being able to understand and think freely with no "writer's blocks" or "dead ends".
Language is liberating by allowing us to express to others what is on our mind through a medium that all can understand (hat is if it's in the same language).
Yes, definitely, we can become a prisoner in our own language. I wrote about this argument titled the "Great Gadamer-Habermas Debate" in which two philosophers argued over whether or not Thought and Language can exist without the other. Thought can never be pure without a medium. this debate definitely changed my way of thinking and that is one of the philosophcal arguments that has caused me to pursue an understanding of philosophy and its many ideas.to read and understand is to allow ourselves to think in ways never before possible.
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