>>13783521>analytical philosophyPhilosophy is a permanent activity of elucidation. It cannot be reduced to an explanation of language, as the analytic school claimed. Because behind language there are real substantive issues, flesh and blood people, and so on. To treat all this only as language analysis is like confusing the food in a restaurant with the menu. When the owner of the restaurant says to his cook "We have to change our menu", the cook makes new real food. He doesn't simply take the menu and decide to write everything differently.
When the owner talks about changing the menu, he is reasoning metonymically. It is not changing the menu itself, but the foods that are referred to on the menu. What philosophers do is this. They are not only reformulating the menu, but they are placing within the list new elements that did not exist or had not been perceived before.
This is the purpose of philosophy, the permanent clarification of the issues as they concretely present themselves in culture and human life, and not only in language.
Obviously, the analysis of language is part of this, but as an auxiliary tool whose importance should not be overemphasized or exaggerated. Because most of the elements that you deal with are elements that do not yet have a linguistic formulation, they are elements of inner and outer experience that sometimes escape linguistic expression.
