PHIL 375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Friedrich Schleiermacher, Hermeneutic Circle, Hans-Georg Gadamer
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Here is the question that gadamer wants answered: How can hermeneutics, once freed from the ontological obstructions of the scientific concept of objectivity, do justice to the historicity of understanding (268) Note the difference between explanation (which seeks to give necessary and sufficient conditions for the reduction of a concept to more primitive concepts) and understanding (whose structure is circular and non-reductive). For heidegger, understanding circularity temporality are inseparable. What is decisive is not to get out of the circle but to come into it the right way . in the circle is hidden a positive possibility of the most primordial kind of knowing. Heidegger gave understanding an ontological orientation by interpreting it as an existential and when he interpreted dasein"s mode of being in terms of time (296). Time is not a gulf to be bridged, but it supports the ground for events to unfold (297)
