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Silence as a Cultural Phenomenon

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Reason, Life, Culture

Part of the book series: Analecta Husserliana ((ANHU,volume 39))

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Man lives in a world of silence. The word, the sound, the voice only seem to be decisive. In fact, they only fill silence, express it, carry a message and announce the thought. Silence is deeper, silence is the foundation. The voice is a reflection. The voice carries the thought out, while silence goes in. Silence envelops the origins of our being, the mystery of our conception in a total unfathomable darkness. Silence envelops our end, our going away. Only in the middle is there voice and sound, trembling, feigning, eagerness to live and escape the silence of being, our beginning and end. The voice expresses us while silence creates.

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  1. Lao-Tse, Tao Te Ching, Song 56 (Leipzig: Verlag Philipp Reclam, 1981), p. 106. In German translation: “Wer weiss, spricht nicht/ wer spricht, weiss nicht.”

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  1. Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Latvian Academy of Sciences, Latvia

    Maija Kūle

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  1. The World Phenomenology Institute, USA

    Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

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Kūle, M. (1993). Silence as a Cultural Phenomenon. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Reason, Life, Culture. Analecta Husserliana, vol 39. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1862-0_2

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