ABSTRACT
In order to get a better understanding of the languages spoken in our present-day civilization, we need a more detailed and concrete analysis of the various convictional world views of our age. This more concrete understanding is necessary, not only in view of the problem of convictional language, but also for a better appreciation of other languages. It will be one of the main theses of this chapter, that the languages of science, politics, and most philosophy are dependent upon one specific convictional world view, which will be labeled the “Greek cosmos conviction.” In order to show the wide range of this world view, we will first analyze the convictions of a poet and essayist, Ralph Waldo Emerson, who is important as a representative of a modern form of this world view.
