Linguistic arrogance goes without a collar in the media and in everyday writing and speech. An example of this is the endless expansion of the meaning of the philosophy , its use that does not fit the context.
A flood of sometimes vivid, but self-aggrandizing words, expressions, and functionless exaggerations pour down on us from the media and spread in public discourse. philosophy acquired a specific meaning in the language of business life: 'set of operating principles, aspirations, methods'; for example: " Our company's philosophy : to provide a high-quality product at an affordable price." , we can read such goals and aspirations in the advertising language and in the media as the " philosophy" of each company or business the creation of unprecedented, new innovative products, etc. is the philosophy of the company, the company, the business , but rather direction , operating , business policy principle , guiding principle , aspiration , goal , strategy , method , etc.
And – as buzzwords are wont to do – this too is rampant, wandering into ever more surprising areas in writing and speech. He already has a "philosophy" for making pastries just like cooking or cleaning... We also meet him in sports: the senior racing driver "sticks to the team's philosophy: "When we got to this season, we wanted to build a car that would be strong during the whole year, and that's why we made so many changes to the appearance of the car.«" It is used in the world of football: "For the work seen by the strong-handed professional according to his own football philosophy, the essence of which is: you don't need to digitize the game unnecessarily, the important thing is that score at least one goal more than the opponent."
techniques, techniques, and systems of making cakes, cooking, or cleaning . The aforementioned group has rather a work plan , a determination , a motivation , an idea , an objective , the quoted coach an idea , position , a concept on the topic in question.
Nowadays, this word also applies to persons. In this case, it mostly sticks out of the text. Loud and amusing exaggerations from the media and the press: "The host's philosophy is that many people do not make sweets at home because they seem very complicated at first glance, but he proves to us that to make most sweets we only need to learn a few tricks". In this text, this designation is more precise: the presenter's opinion based on experience , is that...; the presenter believes , believes that... Or: according to the knowledge (impression) , many... Similar examples: " Philosophy of : always be honest in everything"; a so-called celebrity's " philosophy : college students can afford healthy food"; "The man hasn't done anything to hurt me yet, but you never know. It is better to strike preemptively than to be in a humiliating situation - that was her philosophy ."
Lajos Fülep, Béla Hamvas or Sándor Karácsony; Augustine, Nietzsche or Gadamer, if they were alive, would surely be consumed by yellow envy because they did not come up with the quoted world-shaking ideas... Seriously: the aforementioned 17-year-old girl can have a life motto, a watchword , the opinion , insight , and tactics and ideas regarding a certain life situation, relationship status . But the quoted communications have nothing to do with philosophy or philosophy.
It is therefore advisable to preserve the word philosophy in its original meaning: "A science that researches and organizes the most general laws of the development of nature and society, thinking and cognition; philosophy."
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