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Dicsértessék
Praised be

Author(s): István László
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion, Other Christian Denominations
Published by: VERBUM Keresztény Kulturális Egyesület
Keywords: philology; classical studies; linguistic analysis; philosophy; academic culture;

Summary/Abstract: I don’t know whether it’s still the case today, but when I was a university student in Cluj, it was common to speak about philologists (humanities students) with a tone of disdain and condescension. As classical philologists, we translated Plato’s texts, for example, but we were interested in the linguistic aspects. Opposite us were the “philosophers,” who looked down on our concern with verb constructions and syntactic functions in a given sentence, because they were interested in being and the idea…

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 25-28
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Hungarian
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