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HERMENEUTICS. HERMENEUTICS. hermeneuin. Hermes. A messenger who bring the massage of destiny. Being associated with the function of transmuting of what is beyond human understanding into a form of human intelligence can grasp. HERMENEUTICS. The process of bringing to understanding.
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HERMENEUTICS hermeneuin Hermes A messenger who bring the massage of destiny Being associated with the function of transmuting of what is beyond human understanding into a form of human intelligence can grasp HERMENEUTICS The process of bringing to understanding Which involves LANGUAGE
HERMENEUIN The ancient usage of The process of bringing to understanding Which involves language To say To translate To explain
Hermeneutics Ancient Definition Definition of Hermeneutics Modern Definition
According to different “moment” or approach to the problem of interpretation Modern Definition 6 of Hermeneutics 1 Theory of biblical exegesis 2 Philological methodology 3 Science of Linguistic Understanding 4 Methodological foundation for Geisteswissenchaften Existence Phenomenology of 5 Existential understanding Recovery 6 The system of interpretation vs Iconoclasm
It is the oldest and is still the widespread understanding of the word hermeneutics 1 Theory of Biblical exegesis Hermeneutic Exegesis ≠ Early Recorded: 1654 Actual commentary The rules, METHOD & theory of exegesis Refers to specifically BIBLICAL EXEGESIS 18 C Rec. :1737 General tendency To rely on a “system” of interpretation out of which individual passage can be interpreted Searching for A “hermeneutical principle” As a referential guide Broaden use 19 C Biblical In the case the TEXT is generally obscure or SYMBOLIC, require special method to get at its hidden meaning Non-Biblical
the accidental “truths of history” SUPERIOR INFERIOR the “truths of reason” Scriptural truths above time & history 2 Philological methodology 1 The development of Rationalism Background The advent of classical philology (18 C) 2 3 Biblical interpreters outlook Bible does not tell man anything truethat man would not eventually have recognized through his reason Challenge Making Biblerelevantto the enlightened rational man INTELLECTUALIZING of Biblical assertion Using human natural reason into the text Task of exegesis` Finding the great moral truths intended by the New Testament writes but hidden within different historical terms The need A historical understanding that would grasp the spirit (Geist) behind the work TRANSLATING the spirit (Geist) into terms acceptableto enlightened reason Consequence Hermeneutics become synonymous with the general Rules of philological exegesis This rule treats Bible as it treats any other books Secular theory of interpretation
SCHLEIERMACHER 3 The Science of Linguistic Understanding Art of Understanding Art of explanation the operation to understand what is spoken Explication, art of presentation, Art of rhetorical formulation One’s operation to formulate something and bring it to speech Critique Hermeneutics Standpoint of philology Schleiermacher An aggregate of Rules intellectualizing Translating the spirit beyond the text into acceptable enlightened reason ≠ But it fall outside the hermeneutics Yes, it had constituted a large part of hermeneutical theory
Methodological Foundation for the Geisteswissenchaften Hermeneutics as 4 Geisteswissenchaften (all disciplines focused on understanding man’s arts, actions, and writings) Studying Human being Natural object Act of Historical understanding quantfying By interpretation of a great expression of human life By explanation interpretation understanding Naturalistic methocology Humanistic methodology HERMENEUTICS
Phenomenology of Dasein and of existential understanding Hermeneutics as 5 HEIDEGER understanding Human being’s mode of existence interpretation EXISTENTIAL UNDERSTANDING