From Plato to Panini to Levinas by Ori Z Soltes - 9781032522036

From Plato to Panini to LevinasThe Problem of Language for Philosophy and Theology\nAuthor(s): Ori Z Soltes\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge India\nISBN-13: 9781032522036, 978-1032522036\nSynopsis\nThis volume offers an innovative exploration of Western social and religious thought and bridges the expression of a regional imagination with several planetary conversations. It reconnects Plato and philosophy to the issue of theology and religion and the limits of language as an instrument in engaging both disciplines. While beginning with the language problem as Socrates lays it out in Platos Cratylus, it wends its way through the Panini-inspired discussion of language across Western thought and turns to an examination of the idea of theodicythe justice of God in its relationship to humans: how do the innocent sufferfor example, during the Holocaustin a world made by God? The book ultimately turns arouand to consider how particul.