The function of dialogue in a society of isolation
The function of dialogue in a society of isolation

Summary/Abstract: This material discusses the usefulness of dialogue in a lonely society. To establish its function, we first define the key concepts: dialogue and word. The definition of dialogue will be from a Socratic perspective, and we will say that it is how truth is discovered. The word on the other hand will be clarified starting from Mircea Vulcănescu who states that words contain love and implicitly faith. For this reason, we can say that through words, we assume destinies. We will then try to argue with statistical data why we start from the premise that today’s society is lonely. We will mention the most important moments: the advent of smartphones in 2012 (first in the US) and the coronavirus pandemic that started in 2020. These two factors are certainly not the only ones, but they are two of the main factors that led to the shift of dialogue from face to face to online, when its (dialogue's) functions were largely compromised. We will conclude by saying that the function of dialogue in a lonely society is on one hand knowledge (knowledge of the self and knowledge of the other), and on the other hand it is the one that guaranties the quality of man as a social being.

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