The individual case does not serve only to confirm a law from which practical predictions can be made. However much experiential universals are involved, the aim is not to confirm and extend these universalized experiences in order to attain knowledge of a law—e. What kind of knowledge is it that understands that something is so because it understands that it has come about so?
Both kinds of science make use of the inductive conclusion, but the human sciences arrive at their conclusions by an unconscious process. Hence the practice of induction in the human sciences is tied to particular psychological conditions.
It requires a kind of tact and other intellectual capacities as well—e. The fact that the new mechanics and their triumph in the astronomy of Newton were a model for the sciences of the eighteenth century was still so self-evident for Helmholtz that the question of what philosophical conditions made the birth of this new science possible in the seventeenth century was utterly remote from him.
Today we know what an influence the Paris Occamist school had. Trained in neo-Kantian scholarship, as well as in classical philology, and profoundly affected by the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Gadamer developed a distinctive and thoroughly dialogical approach, grounded in Platonic-Aristotelian as well as Heideggerian thinking, that rejects subjectivism and relativism, abjures any simple notion of interpretive method, and grounds understanding in the linguistically mediated happening of tradition.
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Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! In The Enigma of Health , Gadamer explored what it means to heal, as a patient and a provider. In this work the practice and art of medicine are thoroughly examined, as is the inevitability of any cure. In addition to his work in hermeneutics, Gadamer is also well known for a long list of publications on Greek philosophy.
Indeed, while Truth and Method became central to his later career, much of Gadamer's early life centered around studying Greek thinkers, Plato and Aristotle specifically. In the Italian introduction to Truth and Method , Gadamer said that his work on Greek philosophy was 'the best and most original part' of his career.
Gadamer Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Written in the s, Truth and Method is Gadamer's magnum opus. An astonishing synthesis of literary criticism, philosophy, theology, the theory of law and classical scholarship, it is undoubtedly one of the most important texts in twentieth century philosophy.
Looking behind the self-consciousness of science, he discusses the tense relationship between truth and methodol Published December 7th by Bloomsbury Academic first published January 1st Feb 27, Nathan 'N. Not to be recommended to the casual reader.
By any stretch. Specialists only. Do you know the names Schleiermacher or Dilthey? Those are the famous thinkers discussed. You believe that the Method of emperico-naturalistico-quantito science is the very finest and last arbiter of Truth. I find the idea of rating Truth and Method on a star system kind of offensive after Gadamer did so much to overturn the ontological prejudice that being is what can be quantified.
Reading this book was one of the joys of my life I finished it July 4 three years ago, happy to ignore the jingoistic explosions all around me , and I honestly didn't find it all that difficult. At times in my reading l Wow, Gadamer really knocks it out of the park.
It's a long, fairly dense book -- sorry -- but he's basically undermining the modern conception of 'objective truth. Instead he suggests we recover the fact that real human knowing and existing occurs in Shelves: triumph-of-the-german, beauty, continental-philosophy, philosophy, hermeneutics, phenomenology.
This is one of those great moments where a great student follows his master Heidegger yet gives us a new product and not simply a repetition of his master. In short, for Gadamer language is the horizon of being. As Kant was wrong to seek a thing-in-itself, so we also should beware of a 'meaning-in-itself.
One of the greatest philosophical writings of the twentieth century, and one of the few that actually matters. As the status of science rose in modernity Gadamer sets out to justify the relevance of the humanities and show the possibility and importance of non-scientific truth.
A long and technical book. Not to be read without a decent background in Continental philosophy and some serious patience.
Hans-Georg Gadamer's 'Truth and Method' must be considered alongside the great works of Dilthey, Husserl, and Heidegger as a treatise on hermeneutics, defined by Gadamer as understanding and the correct interpretation of what has been understood. Two major contentions that help frame his analysis are: 1 rejection of the view that proper understanding calls for eliminating the influence of the interpreter's context Gadamer is in the line of thinkers devoted to hermeneutics, a field of thought that at one time desired to build a science of the interpretation of texts.
Gadamer completely disputes the science, but acknowledges his part in the tradition that saught a true method in achieving communion with the text. In the modern, academic form of hermeneutics, these texts were often historical.
Thus, the question of how one could open oneself to the necessarily foreign world of another historical situation be Gadamer's erudition in the field of history of hermeneutics is impressive, but a less informed reader such as I am can often find himself in a difficult situation of having to interpret polemics with a thesis he doesn't know.
All these obstacles are overweighted by the depth and clarity of author's insight when he starts to explore the problem itself. How can we understand historical tradition? Exposing inner contradictions of subjectivistic or relativistic historism he concludes that the hermen Heidegger's Being and Time is my favorite book. Matter of fact it's my first original source philosophy book I ever read. But, as I was reading it I had no idea why he would have long quotes from Dilthy and Count Yorck in the book, and I didn't realize what Husserl's Phenomenology really was, or what Aesthetics and Judgment really meant, or what was meant by Hermeneutics.
This book lays the background for those items and more, and I wish I had read this book before I read Heidegger. The pre-Socr Here is another book that may have killed me but I have endured and won the battle. This is a very fascinating book that is a translation of German philosophy regarding how we determine truth in the humanities.
Some really beautiful moments, and lots of ideas that resonated with me. However, like Derrida, the text is often too dense and he seems to purposely be difficult. For that he does not get five stars! What else can a reader do??? Punish philosophers by withholding stars.
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