“in Being and Time Heidegger finds
a kind of access in the fact that one has with his existence, along with it, a
certain understanding of what fullness of being is. It is not a fixed
understanding but historically formed, accumulated in the very experience of
encountering phenomena. (…) Ontology must turn to the processes of
understanding and interpretation through which things appear; it must lay open
the mood and direction of human existence; it must render visible the invisible
structure of being-in-the-world. How does this relate to hermeneutics? It means
that ontology must, as phenomenology of being, become a ‘hermeneutic’ of
existence. (…) It lays open what was hidden; it constitutes not an
interpretation of an interpretation but the primary act of interpretation which
brings a thing from concealment.” (p129)
Annotation:
Through
hermeneutic interpretation from a
Heideggerian phenomenology
understanding
needs to be seen as more than an interpretation-of-an-interpretation. It is a primary act that
brings those internal aspects of being
into the external world through discussion toward accepted knowledge. The hermeneutic, intuitive circle of inquiry,
counter to being invalid, is a powerful tool to bring those things from
concealment that logic alone cannot.
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