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詮釋學筆記
“I have forgotten my umbrella”
(Nietzsche)
Hermes brings the message of destiny …
(Richard Palmer, 1969, p13)
Psychoanalysis, and in particular the interpretation of dreams, is very obviously a form of hermeneutics; the elements of the hermeneutical situation are all there …
(ibid, p43)
What is interpretation? This study ultimately suggests a specific orientation to the question --- the phenome-nological approach. (ibid, p5)
(1) Six definitions of hermeneutics:
1. the theory of biblical exegesis
2. general philological methodology
3. the science of all linguistic understanding
4. the methodological foundation of Geisteswissenschaften
5. phenomenology of existence and of existential understanding
6. the systems of interpretation, both recollective and iconoclastic, used by man to reach the meaning behind myths and symbols
(ibid, p33)
(2) 創造的詮釋學:
實謂 What exactly did the original thinker or text say?
意謂 What did the original thinker or text intend or mean to say?
蘊謂 What could the original thinker or text have said?
What could the original thinker’s sayings have implied?
當謂 What should the original thinker have said?
What should the creative hermeneutician say on behalf of the original thinker?
必謂 What must the original thinker say now?
What must the creative hermeneutician do now, in order to carry out the unfinished philosophical task of the original thinker?
(傅偉勳, 1989)
(3) Schleiermacher: Project of a general hermeneutics
1. How is all or any utterance, whether spoken or written, really “understood”?
2. Interpretation consists of two interacting moments: the grammatical and the psychological. The principle upon which this reconstruction stands, whether grammatical or psychological, is that of the hermeneutical circle.
3. By dialectical interaction between the whole and the part, each gives the other meaning; understanding is circular … within the circle the meaning comes to stand, we call this the “hermeneutical circle.”
4. To operate at all, the hermeneutical circle assumes an element of intuition.
5. What is to be understood must already be known. … the minimal preknowledge necessary for understanding, without which one cannot leap into the hermeneutical circle.
6. “The fulfilled understanding of style is the whole goal of hermeneutics.” (Schleiermacher, 1819)
7. Only after many years would the assertion be advanced that the universals in understanding which Schleiermacher saw in scientific terms could be seen in historical terms, that is, in terms of the intrinsically historical structure of understanding and more specifically the importance of preunderstanding in all understanding.
(4) Dilthey: hermeneutics as foundation of the Geisteswissenschaften
1. Dilthey aims to develop methods of gaining “objectively valid” interpretations of “expressions of inner life.”
2. … a romantic tinge of his emphasis on a return to life itself
3. As H.A. Hodges notes in his book on Dilthey, two great Philosophical traditions, largely separate until then, met in Dilthey: Anglo-French empirical realism and positivism, and German idealism and life philosophy. Dilthey’s attempt to forge an epistemological foundation for the Geisteswissenschaften became a meeting place for two fundamentally conflicting views of the proper way to study man.
4. … to find an approach adequate to the fullness of phenomena.
The task of finding the basis for such a methodology was seen as an pistemological problem, (2) a matter of deepening our conception of historical consciousness, and (3) a need to understand expressions from out of “life itself.”
5. “critique of historical reason”
6. The key word for the human studies, Dilthey believed, was “understanding.” Explaining is for the sciences, but the approach to phenomena which unites the inner and outer is understanding.
7. experience-expression-understanding
Erlebnis (lived experience)
Ausdruck (expression, “objectification” of the mind)
Verstehen (understanding)
… the human studies linger lovingly over the particular for its own sake.
8. “All recent efforts to understand human historicality find in Dilthey their decisive beginning.”
9. “Life is the basic element or fact which must form the starting point for philosophy. It is knowledge from within. It is that behind which we cannot go. Life cannot be brought before the bar of reason.”
10. … there can be no “presuppositionless” understanding. …
The methodological task of the interpreter, then, is not that of immersing himself totally in his object (which would be impossible, anyway) but rather that of finding viable modes of interaction of his own horizon with that of the text. … this is the question to which Gadamer gives considerable attention: how we can achieve, within the admitted use of our own horizon, an openness to the text which does not impose in advance our own categories upon it.
11. We can see more clearly today that the quest for “objectively valid knowledge” was itself a reflection of scientific ideals wholly contrary to the historicality of our self-understanding.
12. The epistemological basis of psychiatry (Karl Jaspers, General Psychopathology, 1913)
Dilthey Today: A Critical Approach of the Contemporary Relevance of His Work (H.P. Rickman)
Chap 5: The epistemological basis of Psychiatry
(5) Heidegger’s contribution to hermeneutics in Being and Time:
1. … the kind of phenomenology that Heidegger developed in Being and Time is sometimes called hermeneutic phenomenology.
… his project in Being and Time was a “hermeneutic of Dasein”
2. Phenomenology need not be construed as necessarily a laying-open of consciousness; it can also be a means of disclosing being.
3. … phenomenology means letting things beome manifest as what they are, without forcing our own categories on them. … it is not we who point to things; rather, things show themselves to us. … the very essence of true understanding is that of being led by the power of the thing to manifest itself.
4. … interpretation is not grounded in human consciousness and human categories but in the manifestness of the thing encountered, the reality that comes to meet us.
5. Ontology must, as phenomenology of being, become a “hermeneutic” of existence.
6. In Heidegger, hermeneutics is still the theory of understanding, but understanding is differently (ontologically) defined.
7. … a broken hammer at once shows what a hammer is …At the point of breakdown, we may observe a significant fact:
the meaning of these objects lies in their relation to a structural whole of interrelated meanings and intentions. In breakdown, for a brief moment the meaning of the objects is lighted up, emerging directly from world.
(6) The relevance of Gadamer’s Philosophical Hermeneutics to 36 topics or fields of human activity (Richard Palmer, 1999)
The central theses of Gadamer’s hermeneutics:
1. To understand is in fact to interpret
2. All understanding is essentially bound up with language
3. The understanding of the meaning of text is inseparable from its application (Madison, 1988, p109)
One of the major motivations of Gadamer’s hermeneutical project
is to overcome or displace what he has called the age of epistemology.
his critique of classical hermeneutics in the person of Dilthey is directed primarily at the fact that it remains caught up in the modern epistemological, foundationalist project. (ibid, p108)
Gadamer’s hermeneutics is not primarily a method or technique for
reading and interpreting texts. … It is not, indeed, concerned with the epistemological questions of method and methodology at all. Rather, its goal is properly philosophical (whence the term “philosophical hermeneutics”) in that it seeks to determine what is involved in the understanding process itself, what it is that has actually happened whenever we claim to have arrived at an understanding of things, the world, ourselves. (ibid, p110)
The Enigma of Health (Gadamer, 1996)
Chap 13: Hermeneutics and Psychiatry
Introduction to Philosophical Hermeneutics (Jean Grondin, 1994)
(7) Theses on Interpretation (Palmer, 1969, p242-253)
1. The hermeneutical experience is intrinsically historical.
2. The hermeneutical experience is intrinsically linguistic.
3. The hermeneutical experience is dialectical.
4. The hermeneutical experience is ontological.
詮釋學筆記
“I have forgotten my umbrella”
(Nietzsche)
Hermes brings the message of destiny …
(Richard Palmer, 1969, p13)
Psychoanalysis, and in particular the interpretation of dreams, is very obviously a form of hermeneutics; the elements of the hermeneutical situation are all there …
(ibid, p43)
What is interpretation? This study ultimately suggests a specific orientation to the question --- the phenome-nological approach. (ibid, p5)
(1) Six definitions of hermeneutics:
1. the theory of biblical exegesis
2. general philological methodology
3. the science of all linguistic understanding
4. the methodological foundation of Geisteswissenschaften
5. phenomenology of existence and of existential understanding
6. the systems of interpretation, both recollective and iconoclastic, used by man to reach the meaning behind myths and symbols
(ibid, p33)
(2) 創造的詮釋學:
實謂 What exactly did the original thinker or text say?
意謂 What did the original thinker or text intend or mean to say?
蘊謂 What could the original thinker or text have said?
What could the original thinker’s sayings have implied?
當謂 What should the original thinker have said?
What should the creative hermeneutician say on behalf of the original thinker?
必謂 What must the original thinker say now?
What must the creative hermeneutician do now, in order to carry out the unfinished philosophical task of the original thinker?
(傅偉勳, 1989)
(3) Schleiermacher: Project of a general hermeneutics
1. How is all or any utterance, whether spoken or written, really “understood”?
2. Interpretation consists of two interacting moments: the grammatical and the psychological. The principle upon which this reconstruction stands, whether grammatical or psychological, is that of the hermeneutical circle.
3. By dialectical interaction between the whole and the part, each gives the other meaning; understanding is circular … within the circle the meaning comes to stand, we call this the “hermeneutical circle.”
4. To operate at all, the hermeneutical circle assumes an element of intuition.
5. What is to be understood must already be known. … the minimal preknowledge necessary for understanding, without which one cannot leap into the hermeneutical circle.
6. “The fulfilled understanding of style is the whole goal of hermeneutics.” (Schleiermacher, 1819)
7. Only after many years would the assertion be advanced that the universals in understanding which Schleiermacher saw in scientific terms could be seen in historical terms, that is, in terms of the intrinsically historical structure of understanding and more specifically the importance of preunderstanding in all understanding.
(4) Dilthey: hermeneutics as foundation of the Geisteswissenschaften
1. Dilthey aims to develop methods of gaining “objectively valid” interpretations of “expressions of inner life.”
2. … a romantic tinge of his emphasis on a return to life itself
3. As H.A. Hodges notes in his book on Dilthey, two great Philosophical traditions, largely separate until then, met in Dilthey: Anglo-French empirical realism and positivism, and German idealism and life philosophy. Dilthey’s attempt to forge an epistemological foundation for the Geisteswissenschaften became a meeting place for two fundamentally conflicting views of the proper way to study man.
4. … to find an approach adequate to the fullness of phenomena.
The task of finding the basis for such a methodology was seen as an pistemological problem, (2) a matter of deepening our conception of historical consciousness, and (3) a need to understand expressions from out of “life itself.”
5. “critique of historical reason”
6. The key word for the human studies, Dilthey believed, was “understanding.” Explaining is for the sciences, but the approach to phenomena which unites the inner and outer is understanding.
7. experience-expression-understanding
Erlebnis (lived experience)
Ausdruck (expression, “objectification” of the mind)
Verstehen (understanding)
… the human studies linger lovingly over the particular for its own sake.
8. “All recent efforts to understand human historicality find in Dilthey their decisive beginning.”
9. “Life is the basic element or fact which must form the starting point for philosophy. It is knowledge from within. It is that behind which we cannot go. Life cannot be brought before the bar of reason.”
10. … there can be no “presuppositionless” understanding. …
The methodological task of the interpreter, then, is not that of immersing himself totally in his object (which would be impossible, anyway) but rather that of finding viable modes of interaction of his own horizon with that of the text. … this is the question to which Gadamer gives considerable attention: how we can achieve, within the admitted use of our own horizon, an openness to the text which does not impose in advance our own categories upon it.
11. We can see more clearly today that the quest for “objectively valid knowledge” was itself a reflection of scientific ideals wholly contrary to the historicality of our self-understanding.
12. The epistemological basis of psychiatry (Karl Jaspers, General Psychopathology, 1913)
Dilthey Today: A Critical Approach of the Contemporary Relevance of His Work (H.P. Rickman)
Chap 5: The epistemological basis of Psychiatry
(5) Heidegger’s contribution to hermeneutics in Being and Time:
1. … the kind of phenomenology that Heidegger developed in Being and Time is sometimes called hermeneutic phenomenology.
… his project in Being and Time was a “hermeneutic of Dasein”
2. Phenomenology need not be construed as necessarily a laying-open of consciousness; it can also be a means of disclosing being.
3. … phenomenology means letting things beome manifest as what they are, without forcing our own categories on them. … it is not we who point to things; rather, things show themselves to us. … the very essence of true understanding is that of being led by the power of the thing to manifest itself.
4. … interpretation is not grounded in human consciousness and human categories but in the manifestness of the thing encountered, the reality that comes to meet us.
5. Ontology must, as phenomenology of being, become a “hermeneutic” of existence.
6. In Heidegger, hermeneutics is still the theory of understanding, but understanding is differently (ontologically) defined.
7. … a broken hammer at once shows what a hammer is …At the point of breakdown, we may observe a significant fact:
the meaning of these objects lies in their relation to a structural whole of interrelated meanings and intentions. In breakdown, for a brief moment the meaning of the objects is lighted up, emerging directly from world.
(6) The relevance of Gadamer’s Philosophical Hermeneutics to 36 topics or fields of human activity (Richard Palmer, 1999)
The central theses of Gadamer’s hermeneutics:
1. To understand is in fact to interpret
2. All understanding is essentially bound up with language
3. The understanding of the meaning of text is inseparable from its application (Madison, 1988, p109)
One of the major motivations of Gadamer’s hermeneutical project
is to overcome or displace what he has called the age of epistemology.
his critique of classical hermeneutics in the person of Dilthey is directed primarily at the fact that it remains caught up in the modern epistemological, foundationalist project. (ibid, p108)
Gadamer’s hermeneutics is not primarily a method or technique for
reading and interpreting texts. … It is not, indeed, concerned with the epistemological questions of method and methodology at all. Rather, its goal is properly philosophical (whence the term “philosophical hermeneutics”) in that it seeks to determine what is involved in the understanding process itself, what it is that has actually happened whenever we claim to have arrived at an understanding of things, the world, ourselves. (ibid, p110)
The Enigma of Health (Gadamer, 1996)
Chap 13: Hermeneutics and Psychiatry
Introduction to Philosophical Hermeneutics (Jean Grondin, 1994)
(7) Theses on Interpretation (Palmer, 1969, p242-253)
1. The hermeneutical experience is intrinsically historical.
2. The hermeneutical experience is intrinsically linguistic.
3. The hermeneutical experience is dialectical.
4. The hermeneutical experience is ontological.