Reflection On Argument Between Implication And Meaning

Truth and Method written by German contemporary philosopher Gadamer came on the scene in 1960. The book deals with how human sciences, as the evidence of continuance of human culture, realize their value and keep the humanism tradition alive to now. Therefore, the book mainly tells us the reflection of western society on modernity of humanism value. Among many hermeneutists in western philosophy history, such as Schleiermacher, Dilthey, including contemporary hermeneutists Hirsch and Ricoeur, only Gadamer thoroughly and systematically discussed understanding of meaning in the sphere of human sciences. From Gadamer's point of view, human sciences focus on the understanding of meaning, and hermeneutics deals with "how is understanding possible". The purpose of writting the book is to establish a rational foundation for human sciences, so the book begins with the discussion of understanding of meaning of Gadamer's hermeneutics is in accordance with the demands of Gadamer to hermeneutics.Truth and Method evokes great repercussions in sphere of learning when it is published. Nowadays, there are many articles and monographs which share same notion with definitions of Gadamer's relativity, generation and mobility. Howerer, still many scholars can't distinguish Gadamer's "implication" from traditional "meaning". Some of them even think " meaning " and " implication " are the same conception. Under most circumstances, they focus their attention on the sphere of meaning generation and don't have a further research on structure implied in the definition of meaning. Mr Zhang Nengwei states in his book Practice of Understanding on Gadamer's Practical Philosophy, that Gadamer's practical philosophy presents us with a tendency which combines natural sciences with human sciences. However, I think that Gadmer hasn't fulfilled the task of combination completely. Furthermore, Gadamer emphasizes on the understanding of meaning excessively in hermeneutics, which leads to criticism from Hirsch and Ricoeur. In view of those criticism, domestic scholars have done many comparative studies including new-published book Ontology on Meaning-From Philosophical Hermeneutics. However, the book is restricted to the definition given byHirsch or Ricoeur and is lack of thorough analysis and systemetic association. Furthermore, they neglected Hirsch's misunderstanding of Gadamer's thought under circumstances that they agreed that Hirsch didn't comment on Gadamer's hermeneutics objectively.Therefore, in consideration of current situation of sphere of learning, the author attempts to present two problems in thesis. First, I will clear up other's misunderstanding to Gadamer's conception of "meaning" in his hermeneutics, clarifing that meaning can self-construct and self-succession and conducting a discussion on the structure of meaning. Second, the thesis will focus on the similarities and differences about hermeneutics of Gadamer, Hirsch and Ricoeur based on connection between meaning and implication, interpretation and understanding. The thesis will also discuss the integrative thinking frame of understanding of meaning and scientific interpretation. Specifically, the thesis is divided into four chapters. The first chapter is about Dilthey's definition on undersdanding and theory of meaning in historical philosophy, focusing on influence of Dilthey's thought on Gadamer's hermeneutics. The second chapter mainly discusses that Gadamer presented his own conception on meaning and thuth based on Dithey's idea, revealing the essence of existence of human spirit. In the third chapter, the author analyses the similarities and differences between " meaning " and " implication ", " interpretation " and " understanding ", concentrating on how integrative thinking frame is formed in the process of criticising hermeneutics. The last chapter is the author's interpretation and understanding to Gadamer's hermeneutics theory and the inspiration the author got in comparative study. The author's pointview can be summerized from the following two aspects. First,...