HERMENEUTICS

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HERMENEUTICS
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HERMENEUTICS
hermeneuin
Hermes
A messenger who bring the massage of destiny
Being associated with the function of transmuting
of what is beyond human understanding into a form
of human intelligence can grasp
HERMENEUTICS
The process of bringing to understanding
Which involves
LANGUAGE
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HERMENEUIN
The ancient usage of
The process of bringing to understanding
Which involves language
To say
To translate
To explain
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Hermeneutics
Ancient Definition
Definition of Hermeneutics
Modern Definition
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According to different moment or approach to
the problem of interpretation
Modern Definition
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of Hermeneutics
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Theory of biblical exegesis
Philological methodology
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Science of Linguistic Understanding
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Methodological foundation for Geisteswissenchaften

Existence
Phenomenology of
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Existential understanding
Recovery
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The system of interpretation
vs
Iconoclasm
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It is the oldest and is still the widespread
understanding of the word hermeneutics
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Theory of Biblical exegesis
Hermeneutic
Exegesis
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Early
Recorded 1654
Actual commentary
The rules, METHOD theory of exegesis
Refers to specifically BIBLICAL EXEGESIS
18 C
Rec. 1737
General tendency
To rely on a system of interpretation out of
which individual passage can be interpreted
Searching for
A hermeneutical principle
As a referential guide
Broaden use
19 C
Biblical
In the case the TEXT is generally obscure or
SYMBOLIC, require special method to get at its
hidden meaning
Non-Biblical
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Philological methodology
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The development of Rationalism
Background
The advent of classical philology (18 C)
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Biblical interpreters outlook
Bible does not tell man anything true
that man would not eventually
have recognized through his reason
Challenge
Making Bible relevant to the enlightened rational
man
INTELLECTUALIZING of Biblical assertion
Using human natural reason into the text
Task of exegesis
Finding the great moral truths intended by the
New Testament writes but hidden within different
historical terms
The need
A historical understanding that would grasp the
spirit (Geist) behind the work
TRANSLATING the spirit (Geist) into terms
acceptable to enlightened reason
Consequence
Hermeneutics become synonymous with the general
Rules of philological exegesis
This rule treats Bible as it treats any other
books
Secular theory of interpretation
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The Science of Linguistic Understanding
SCHLEIERMACHER
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Hermeneutics
Standpoint of philology
Schleiermacher
An aggregate of Rules
intellectualizing
Translating the spirit beyond the text into
acceptable enlightened reason
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But it fall outside the hermeneutics
Yes, it had constituted a large part of
hermeneutical theory
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Methodological Foundation for the
Geisteswissenchaften
Hermeneutics as
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Geisteswissenchaften (all disciplines focused on
understanding mans arts, actions, and writings)
Studying
Human being
Natural object
Act of Historical understanding
quantfying
By interpretation of a great expression of human
life
By explanation
understanding
interpretation
Naturalistic methocology
Humanistic methodology
HERMENEUTICS
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Phenomenology of Dasein and of existential
understanding
Hermeneutics as
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HEIDEGER
understanding
Human beings mode of existence
interpretation
EXISTENTIAL UNDERSTANDING