Nietzschean Critique and Philosophical Hermeneutics

Philosophical Hermeneutics Hermeneutic Bioethics

Introduction If we were to acknowledge the interpretive character of our public debates over some of the issues that concern us, we would secure a firm foundation for a deliberative form of democracy. For we would then talk and listen to one another with mutual respect, not simply because political theorists encourage us to do so, but because we recognize the interpretive status of our own posi...

a critique of methodologism from the perspective of gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics

gadamer’s critique of methodologism is one of the fundamental teachings of his philosophical hermeneutics. gadamer sees truth much beyond the ability of method to grasp it completely. he criticizes the exclusive restriction of truth in methodical processes but does not reject the need for methodical work.the present article explores the origins of methodologism in ancient greece and modern time...

philosophical hermeneutics and epistemological foundations of history

the effective and efficient understanding of the past, which is useful for present time, will transform the history into a dynamic science when it becomes an essential concern for historians. history, as a science, is the result of historian’s insights and perceptions; and philosophical hermeneutics with emphasizing on ontology of understanding and especially on importance of interpretation, ha...

A Philosophical Critique of Personality-type Theory in Psychology

Today, any credible philosophical attempt to discuss personhood must take some position on the proper relation between the philosophical analysis of topics like action, intention, emotion, normative and evaluate judgment, desire and mood Cwhich are grouped together under the heading of `moral psychology'C and the usually quite different approaches to ostensibly the same phenomena in contemporar...

The Subjectivity of Effective History and the Suppressed Husserlian Elements in Gadamerâ•Žs Philosophical Hermeneutics