HERMENEUTICS

HERMENEUTICS hermeneuin HERMENEUTICS 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

The process of bringing to understanding Which involves language The ancient usage of HERMENEUIN The process of bringing to understanding Which involves language To say To translate To explain

Hermeneutics Ancient Definition Definition of Hermeneutics Modern Definition

6 1 2 3 4 5 6 Modern Definition of Hermeneutics According to different “moment” or approach to the problem of interpretation Modern Definition 6 of Hermeneutics 1 Theory of biblical exegesis 2 Philological methodology 3 Science of Linguistic Understanding 4 Methodological foundation for Geisteswissenchaften Existence 5 Phenomenology of Existential understanding Recovery 6 The system of interpretation vs Iconoclasm

1 ≠ Hermeneutic Exegesis Theory of Biblical exegesis It is the oldest and is still the widespread understanding of the word hermeneutics 1 Theory of Biblical exegesis Hermeneutic ≠ Exegesis Early Recorded: 1654 The rules, METHOD & theory of exegesis Actual commentary 18 C Refers to specifically BIBLICAL EXEGESIS 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

Biblical interpreters outlook 2 Philological methodology 1 Background The development of Rationalism 2 The advent of classical philology (18 C) 3 the “truths of reason” INFERIOR the accidental “truths of history” SUPERIOR Scriptural truths time & history above 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 Task of exegesis` Using human natural reason into the text 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

3 ≠ SCHLEIERMACHER The Science of Linguistic Understanding Hermeneutics Standpoint of philology Schleiermacher An aggregate of Rules intellectualizing Translating the spirit beyond the text into acceptable enlightened reason Explication, art of presentation, Art of rhetorical formulation One’s operation to formulate something and bring it to speech Art of explanation ≠ Art of Understanding the operation to understand what is spoken Critique Yes, it had constituted a large part of hermeneutical theory But it fall outside the hermeneutics

4 Methodological Foundation for the Geisteswissenchaften Hermeneutics as Methodological Foundation for the Geisteswissenchaften 4 Geisteswissenchaften (all disciplines focused on understanding man’s arts, actions, and writings) Studying Natural object Human being Act of Historical understanding quantfying By interpretation of a great expression of human life By explanation interpretation understanding Naturalistic methocology Humanistic methodology HERMENEUTICS

Human being’s mode of existence EXISTENTIAL UNDERSTANDING Hermeneutics as Phenomenology of Dasein and of existential understanding 5 HEIDEGER Human being’s mode of existence understanding interpretation EXISTENTIAL UNDERSTANDING