From the Method to the Wesen:

The Hermeneutical Experience in Truth and Method as a Clue.

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(wirkungsgecshichtliches
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NameLI, CHIN-YUN
DepartmentGraduate School of Religion
ProfessorLUH JING-JONG
TopicFrom the Method to the Wesen: Take the Hermeneutical Experience of
Truth and Method as a Clue.
KeywordGadamerexperiencehermeneutical experienceTruth and Method
hermeneutic
Total pages109
Abstract
The aim of this dissertation is to research the concepts of experience, which is from
Gadamer, that is the essence of hermeneutic experience. He discusses Husserl first
and finds his effort to return to concrete experience laudable and sincere. However,
Gadamer also criticizes Husserl because the pure transcendental subjectivity of the
ego is not given as such but always given in the idealization of language.
He also discusses Francis Bacons concept of experience in the Novum Organum
and applauds his exploration of the prejudices that hold the mind captive, but
Gadamer is interested in what Bacon wants to exclude, the idols of the tribe and the
marketplace.
The fact that experience is true until contradicted by new experience is really
rehabilitation, Gadamer says, of Aristotles theory of inductuon. And he goes back to
Hegels concept of experience as the new true subject that emerges from the
dialectical movement of conscious.
Gadamer finds in Hegel a major component of his own concept. According to
Hegel, experience has the structure of a reversal of consciousness and hence it is
dialectical movement. In fact, experience is initially always experience of negation.
So experience always leads to new knowledge, and also to a more experienced self.
Gadamer notes that the experienced person is someone who, because of the many
negative experiences he has had and the knowledge he has draw from them.
The paradigm of experience is the experience of the hero in a Greek tragedy. The
Greek motto is: through suffering learn wisdom. In Greek tragedy one comes up
against the limits of human finite knowledge. Says Gadamer: Thus experience is
experience of human finitude. In experience the dogmatism which proceeds from
the soaring desires of the human heart reaches an absolute barrier. Experience
teaches us to acknowledge the real. The genuine result of experience. is to know
what is.
One of Gadamers objections to previous concepts of experience is the absence of
any sense of historicity. One gets the idea that experience, for Gadamer, means the
body of humbling encounters with reality that make an experience person. So its
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impossible to have another time and chance to change everything. In fact, genuine
experience is experience of ones historicity. It is to say, one knows that he acts and
stands in history, and nothing about the fact can reappear.
Then Gadamer makes an important turn. He says we should to seek out in the
hermeneutical experience those we have already found in the analysis of experience in
general. First, hermeneutical experience is concerned with tradition, says Gadamer.
But he goes on to say that since experience is dialectical, we experience tradition as a
Thou. We do not experience it as an external object. We experience it not as an object
but as something that is in relationship with us. We are situated in a tradition and
this is not a restriction. To be situated within a tradition does not limit the freedom of
ones knowledge but makes it possible.
Knowing and realizing this, it constitutes the highest type of hermeneutical
experience: the openness to tradition characteristic of historically effected
consciousness. This means that one to open to ones tradition, and this consciousness
leads us to Gadamers concept of wirkungsgeschichtliches Bewusstsein, A
consciousness aware that history and tradition are always work in it. An experienced
person is tolerant, open, and full tradition.

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