Tolkien, Philosophy, and Jokes (Dr. Peter Kreeft) | Ep. 292
Pints With Aquinas
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Is It Legal to Call Things by Their Proper Names?
Confucius was a master of language, and he had something like 600 different suggestions in the antallects. And some one once asked him, which of your suggestions, if you could choose only one, would you want the whole world to obey? And he said, restore the proper names to things. Call things by their right names. That's the first. I wonder, does that relate to 19 84, the book witeating rid of words.? Yes, yes. It's all about language.
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