What is hermeneutics?
20
Oct
If you have to define “hermeneutics” in
simple terms, I would say that is an interpretation of fact, the word interpretation is more common in Portuguese that hermeneutics, being linked to correction biblical interpretation made by Schleiermacher (1768-1834), as he intended to be the first to unify the various hermeneutical theories of specific disciplines in a universal hermeneutics.
For Schleiermacher, hermeneutics is the art of understanding the spoken and written language, and it assumes that misinterpretations occur constantly, and since writing is connected to the author’s language, he made a division into two parts: a grammatical interpretation which deals with the semantic and syntactic comprehension of language, and the technical or psychological interpretation that deals with the thinking of the author, as he developed his thoughts.
It was a decisive influence on the thinking of Hans-Georg Gadamer, and the second also on hermeneutics Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911) scholar Schleiermacher, but whose central project was to create a unique methodology for the human sciences, as the method of so called “natural science” is not appropriate for the humanities.
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) combines the phenomenological research method of Husserl with aspects of the theory of understanding Dilthey’s life, besides the influences mentioned in previous posts (Plato, Aristotle, Leibniz and Eckhard Master) also want to point out now, once seen the importance of Hegel, outside the sphere of reason, Sφren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche, Heidegger will say we have stated that we need to know the meaning of being, and particularly of being human beings before discussing our understanding of the entities.
A careful description of what human beings are in real life, does not allow an idealistic project or a materialistic consumerist or even cut, it is to know what we as self-interpretive understanding that we have of our trip.
The hermeneutics of the project is abandoned in Being and Time, but the hermeneutic circle which Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002), which says provocatively that Heidegger’s hermeneutics has understanding of previous structures, which are “prejudices” but we then think that there are also positive prejudices that lead to correct interpretation.
The hermeneutic understanding occurs when the text of the last horizon with the horizon this one who interprets and understands merge, it is the horizon now expanded interpreter is in germ in Heidegger, Gadamer in method.
