"Thus, hermeneutics is, as we have seen, a universal aspect of philosophy, and not just the methodological basis of the so-called human sciences." — Hans-Georg Gadamer. Truth and Method.
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Precisely because we are finite creatures, we cannot escape our historicity, which means our consciousness of the world comes about in and through history, which means we are always already bound up in a given horizon of understanding, which is always partial, never total.
aug 27, 2025, 3:31 pm • 10 2 • view
The god's-eye-view free from all prejudice and presumption envisioned by the early Enlightenment sciences is actually a dangerous illusion. That is, there is no neutral point of view available to human understanding. We are always already interpreting. It really is hermeneutics all the way down.
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