The creative spirit of Language. Article 3. Symbolical universe of Culture

The philosophy of language represents itself as a basis of philosophy of culture as a whole. Language names all existing, granting it life with a word, confirming it with creative "Yes, it will be!" and it reveals the essence of all things, their true light; it predicts the Truth. Ability to name is the primary and most important of creative abilities of Language. Being poetry by its nature, creation of the new, Language always carries out the most ancient act of creation of the World and, respectively, the Vital World of Humankind Culture. Naming and humanizing the real, Language symbolizes all around, that is, it gives value to everything, provides it with meaning, makes sense enters the World into the axiological dimension, creates Culture as a symbolical universe. Language is symbolical by nature, in every instant of its manifestation in each sound, word, gesture; and the symbolical character of the word is not an external characteristic, but a condition initially inherent to it. Any word of Language is a symbol, because its nature includes two parts: it simultaneously is in the terrestrial material world and turns to mysterious mountain tops, by its nature it is close to something heavenly, divine. According to ancient etymology, "symbol" (Greek "symbolon" from "symballo" to connect, entail, compare) bears the initial sense of completeness of learning the Being. A symbol is a revelation of primordial religiousness of Language, that is, blood relations (re-ligio to connect), coexistence of Language and the World, common being of a word, thought and esthetic experience. A symbol is a point of the closest contact of two worlds: terrestrial and celestial, material and ideally-spiritual, daily and sacral, shown and intimate, passing and eternal, valley and mountain; the careful keeper of their connection. A symbol is the maximum creative tension of Language, a clot of language energy, its main purpose is to get the super-temporal and supranational sense of Life. A symbol expresses aspiration of Language to comprehend the incomprehensible, something which is not said and its manifestation in a word to express the inexpressible. Language establishes semantic verticals and goes to unknown depth, getting into the essence of things, connecting the general with the individual, unique and special, the common with the single, the absolute with the relative, the eternal with the temporary, the World with the human. Language is the Gestalt of the Universe, it creates semantic integrity of Culture, possessing ability to express the diversity of the World and an infinite definition of the multitude of its unique phenomena. The Vital World of Language, its life, its activity, its energy is provided with constant variability, with the change of senses, with continuous semantic dynamics, any word appeals to life and anticipates new senses, and the World is created anew each time. Culture is in the live creative element of Language, and the creation of Culture by the Word according to "logic of sense" is giving importance, value and sense to each vital instant, continuous expansion of the area of senses, the variety of which develops Culture. Language creates this Symbolical Universe of sense, making the spiritual and ideal world the transcendental reality of Culture.

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