PHIL 375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Moritz Schlick, Hermeneutic Circle, Friedrich Schleiermacher
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A genuine understanding . can only be achieved through the apprehension of this systematically constructed whole (111) All exegesis of written works is only the systematic working out of that general process of understanding which stretches throughout our lives (112) there is a substratum of a general human nature (112) The full comprehension of the individual part already presupposes comprehension of the whole (113) Schleiermacher"s exegetical method: divisions broad outlines illuminate difficulties interpretation. The ultimate goal of the hermeneutic process is to understand an author better than he understood himself this is an idea which is the necessary consequence of the doctrine of unconscious creation (113) Holub lists three fields of meaning for hermeneutics in habermas: vico-dilthey tradition: explanation vs understanding, pre-understanding: things we do not thematize as knowledge, which form the background or horizon for successful communication, sociological bent: lifeworld. Habermas uses hermeneutics in his dispute with positivism.
