The winter edition of the Social Philosophy Salon in the Faculty of Applied Social Studies brought together over 40 interested Bachelor's and Master's students as well as some colleagues from the faculty on 29.11.2023. However, the topic of "just language" also addressed a much-discussed phenomenon that is currently apt to create fronts along ideological lines.
Linguist Prof. Dr. Anatol Stefanowitsch(Opens in a new tab) digital from the FU Berlin joined us to avoid a polemical exchange of blows and instead discuss the topic in the necessary objectivity. With his book "A question of morality. Why we need just language", he has presented a controversial essay that is well worth reading.
The well-founded and at the same time controversial discussion touched on many occasions for speaking in the practice of social work, but also in the private sphere of those present, and offered some concrete impulses for our own language behavior via the moral-philosophically based rule "to speak about others as we ourselves would want others to speak about us". The focus was not only on questions of gender, but also on other areas of derogatory, hurtful or exclusionary, e.g. racist statements.
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