The Exploration Of Dilthey’s Life Hermeneutics

Despite the philosophical schools of Hermeneutics has become a hot research scholars at home and abroad in the last two or three decades, however, the history of Hermeneutics is very long, its origin can be traced back to ancient Greece. At that time it was used to explain and interpret Homer, Hesiod and other people’s literary. In the Middle Ages, as the Christian books and literature are voluminous, Christians’knowledge and understanding for "the Bible" and other religious books were not the same. To get to the root, to maintain Christian orthodoxy, people created a theology which is used to research literature, to explore the true original meaning of the words, statements and the text, this is the Biblical Hermeneutics. Without doubting,. the Biblical Hermeneutics gradually growed up in the process of the interpretation of "the Bible" by the numerous theologians. In fact, it was the famous20th-century German philosopher Schleiermacher and Dilthey who led Hermeneutic into the field of philosophy.Dilthey occupied a place in the modern Western philosophy by his Life Hermeneutics. In regard to its Life Hermeneutics’theory source, the ancient Greece Hermeneutics, Medieval Hermeneutics, Kant’s intellectual aspects of the theory, Hegel’s objective spirit theory and Schleiermacher’s Hermeneutics affected Dilthey in varying degrees, in which especially Schleiermacher’s Hermeneutics affected Dilthey best. In Dilthey’s Life Hermeneutic theory, he sees the life as his philosophy’s starting point and fundament. Life is timing and historic, it is a real experience. He has seen the experience as an internal perception, has looked the experience as a reflection of the experience, he even gave the concept an aesthetic sense, take it as aesthetic experience. Since human beings have the experience, it naturally involves the question how to express. Dilthey said:The important point of the expression is that it is the way and mean that individual life shows its inner experience and reveals its self-experience, through the expression, one can achieve self-venting and self-expression purposes, you can make other people come into your own spiritual world, He then presents the concep t of the life expression, the language expression and the behavior expression. We not only want to express experience, but it should also be accepted and recognized by the audience, which relates to the "understanding" of the problem. In Dilthey’s Life Hermeneutics, experience, expression and understanding is an organic whole, the three together constitute a complete interlocking of the communication process. In addition, empathy is the unity of feeling and perception, it is also seen as the combination of a individual body and life experience, it is also an important part of life Hermeneutics. In order to better promote understanding, Dilthey enriched and developed Schleiermacher’s hermeneutic circle, given this philosophy concept more new content.