Talk:Hermeneutics

From Academic Kids

Since no-one objected, the sub-section on biblical hermeneutics has been deleted and may now be found under Biblical Hermeneutics. --Szessi 17:06, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I propose to move the section on "Biblical hermeneutics" out of this main article on "hermeneutics", and create a new article entitled "Biblical hermeneutics". [This is, incidentally, how the German wikipedia treats this issues as well.] If you think that this is a bad idea, please say so and we'll discuss it. --Szessi 11:19, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Why is "Hermeneutics" capitalized? Why is there no sub-section in this entry with a concise recap of "Biblical hermeneutics"?. This is part of the job, Szessi. I will title the subsection: please provide the text. --Wetman 20:21, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

A personal note. Feyerabend: Anything goes! Oh, how I love that man. - Sigg3.net 21:40, 29 Nov 2003 (UTC)

So... how does the hermenuetical approach work, as opposed to critical theory? - cobra libre 19:41, 20 Apr 2004 (CDT)

What do you mean by critical theory? Traditional hermeneutics was superseeded. Critical theory may be critical hermeneutics. Please fill in:) - Sigg3.net 07:29, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I think the last addition is plain wrong. Admittedly, you'll find someone who would claim that, but Hermeneutics in any meaningful sense of the word has nothing whatsoever to do with Critical Theory, and vice versa, some real mental acrobatics are in line. That critical theorists (if they are top-drawer), when they get older, tend to start realizing the value of Hermeneutics, is another matter entirely. :-) Clossius 19:16, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)

This article seems confusing and incomplete right now. Before reading it, I didn't know what hermeneutics was except that it had something to do with interpretation and literary criticism. After reading it, I'm still just as fuzzy. What is hermeneutics, exactly? What methods does it involve? What is it good for, and why do we need a fancy word instead of just talking about "interpretation"? --Shibboleth 20:18, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Biblical Hermeneutics

It seems that the list of 'principles' derives from a single source (is it Virkler's Hermeneutics?); if so, it would be good to indicate this. Also, I agree with Dkmiller's comment that this is a particular take on Biblical hermeneutics which may be found in 'orthodox' protestantism, especially (but not exclusively) in the USA, but which is not representative of Biblical hermeneutics as a whole. I'll add something later to offer a different perspective which will hopefully complement the section. --Szessi 09:41, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

It seems that the portion of this article regarding biblical hermeneutics is coming from a particular POV. There are lots of ways to look at biblical hermeneutics that aren't related to the principles listed. Is there some way to clean this article up by showing who or what school approaches biblical hermeneutics in the way presented by the article and by putting that approach in a larger context? Dkmiller 18:38, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Continental European

"Continental European" (or "Continental") within Philosophy refers to a specific approach to Philosophy that has something to do with origins (i.e., as contrasted to Anglo-American ones, such as Analytical Philosophy), and clearly Hermeneutics is that, even if practised in Idaho or Cambridge. Thus, the recent deletion of that qualifier is sad in that it takes some important information away. Clossius 08:30, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Return it to the entry, and accurately characterize what is specifically "continental" about it, and what aspects of "hermeneutics" (which is the entry subject) is not "continental", and then it will become information. Wetman 08:44, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Hermeneutics of Schleiermacher

Maybe ( / I hope that) this diletant utterance is enough to trigger a conversation on this subject:

I'm relying on a maybe double translation here, but; goal is to understand the speech better than the original speaker it understood.

"the circle of language" may also be a triple translation by now, but icludes preliminary knowledge shared by the participants of the circle. the interpreter starts with this preliminary knowledge, shares it which the speaker-listener and moves from the community's circle toward individual's circle.

principles of S's hermeneutics, which combine;

sides of interpretation; psychological (facts inside the speech) and grammatical (language used in the speech) methods of interpretation; divinatory and comparative

psychological side + divinatory method; guessings on the ways of presenting things grammatical side + divinatory method; guessings on the structural connections of things

psychological side + comparative method; comparing the ways of presenting things grammatical side + comparative method; comparing the structural connections of things