Are All Interpretations Possible? :: Philosophy Essays

Are All Interpretations Possible?ABSTRACT cardinal fundamental criticisms made by traditional hermeneutics against philosophical hermeneutics are that the latter(prenominal) deny the possibility of objectively true interpretation, as well as assert that all interpretations are possible on the basis that they cannot be measured. In my paper, I argue that the first criticism is well-founded, while the number is not. I contend that interpretations can be decided according to two relational criteria (i) which interpretation has a more comprehensive horizon and (ii) which one(a) is derivable from the other.1. The birth of the philosophical hermenutics and its hermeneutical mutation.Until now it seems to be the most far-flung viewpoint about the philosophical turning of hermeneutics that it was realized by Martin Heidegger in his lectures in the 1920s, and in his work Being and Time. Let me refer to the holograph from the 1920s that Thomas Sheehan and Theodore Kisiel found and they pu blished in the Dilthey-Jahrbuch (Phnomenologische Interpretationen zu Aristoteles /Anzeige der hermeneutischen Situation/) (1) and refer to the great deal 61. of Gesamtausgabe (Ph- nomenologische Interpretationen zu Aristoteles. Einfhrung in die phnomenologische Forschung) and to the volume 63. (Ontologie /Hermeneutik der Faktizitt/). Although he only wrote more than half a page explicitly about hermeneutics (7..) in Being and Time, but its work in the book is not questionable. As to the secondary grounding of my statement I refer to two fit authorsopinion. Otto Pggeler wrote the following about Being and Time in his 1963 monograph Weil der Seinssinn dessen, was Husserl amyotrophic lateral sclerosis das transzendentale Ich faBt, von Heidegger als faktische Existenz bestimmt wird, die in sich selbst hermeneutisch ist, wird die transzendentale Phnomenologie Husserls bei Heidegger zur hermeneutischen Phnomenologie. Die hermeneutisch vestandene transzendentale Erkenntnis ist ineins F rage nach dem Seinssinn des Daseins und nach dem Sinn von Sein und damit ontologisch, ErschlieBung des Seins. (2) Hans-Georg Gadamer who completed the philosophical hermeneutics that was created by Heidegger, and who is the doyen of it in our age, also stated about Being and Time that ...as a result of the empiric futurality of human Dasein, the structure of historical understanding appears with its sufficient ontological background. (3) We can not doubt that Heidegger composed the existential hermeneutics with the fundamental-ontological, philosophical intention of radicalizing Husserls phenomenology.Let us focus our attention on what are the most important ideas for my topic of the young Heideggers philosophy and its hermeneutical novelty As we know, Heidegger considered that the fundamental question of philosophy was the question of the meaning of Being.