PHIL 008 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Friedrich Schleiermacher, Wilhelm Dilthey, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
10 Jun 2020
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Aims: recovery of author"s intention and cultural background. Study of reasoning processes involved in acquisition of understanding and enabling factors of that acquisition. Study of man as meaning giving subject rather than object of empirical study. As a methodological discipline, it offers a toolbox for efficiently treating problems of the interpretation of human actions, texts and other meaningful material. Hermeneutics has a long history predating the humanities revolution: shifting problems and tools designed to solve them. Human actions continuous with other phenomena in nature: ingle method for all the sciences. Vs. mill: meaning and reason not constitutive of human action: not interpretative perspective required, natural science perspective. Schleiermacher & dilthey: modern founding father of hermeneutics 19th c. before: texts as expressions of unchanging human nature. Hegel"s lesson: history: meaning of texts variable, hence text interpretation a non-trivial task and, hence, a specific method for interpretation required.
