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Gadamer 's Hermeneutics Of Truth,

Posted on:2006-10-11Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Q LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360155959802Subject:Foreign philosophy
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Truth has been being an important problem in the study of the Westernphilosophy. The truth ideology of Gadamer's Hermeneutics is in a basic position inhis Hermeneutics as well as in the whole history of the Western truth ideology. So it issignificant to discuss it deeply.Truth ideology of Gadamer's Hermeneutics is established on the base ofcriticizing the predecessors. First he analyses the features of natural science ideologyand criticizes them. He thinks the knowledge of objectifying natural science isimpossible, and it is not real to get the objective knowledge by clearing away theprejudice. Then the Truth ideology of natural science distorts and closes the truth forregards truth as a method. Next he criticizes the truth of natural science on itsexceeding and arbitrariness. In Gadamer's opinion when it comes into being, humansciences is desired to obtain truth on the basis of the percipience mode of naturalscience. Though human sciences is aware of its independence and rebels against thedictature of natural science, it fails for it doesn't get rid of the mode of the naturalscience. So analyzing the horizon of science Gadamer point out that scientific truthisn't the whole of the truth, but some directive truth.Criticizing the scientific truth and inheriting the ideas on truth from Old Greece,Gadamer replies and expresses against for the original meaning of truth. In Gadamer'sopinion the conception of truth has a developing process. First truth means disclosureand concealment. Parmenides links up truth and "to on". Then it gradually means theknowing related to knowledge. By the detailed inquiry about "being"Heidegger findsthat the original meaning of truth is "disclosure"or "concealment". Differed fromHeidegger, Gadamer thinks that language is a medium of understanding, and thewhole empeiria possesses qualities of language, at the same time language isn't a tool,there is the unity between language and "being". So "being"that is comprehended islanguage. This means there lies subordinate relationship between them. Therelationship based on Hermeneutische expresses that "being"come into language, that...
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