From Truth and Method. Notes on Section 1.
Bildung: the properly human way of developing one’s capacities; culture. reveals a new tacit dimension of man’s existence.
Erlebnis: an experience you have; connected with a subject’s knowing
Erfahrung: experience as an ongoing investigative project.
Vermittlung: total mediation. In re-presenting the artwork performs a total mediation
PART ONE: THE QUESTION OF TRUTH AS IT EMERGES IN THE EXPERIENCE OF ART
One: Transcending the Aesthetic Dimension
- The Significance of the human tradition for the human sciences
- The Problem of Method:
- The Guiding concepts of Humanism
- Bildung (Culture)
- Herder: rising up to humanity through culture.
- Kant: cultivating a capacity of natural talent.
- Latin equivalent: formatio
- Hegel and Bildung: the condition of its existence; correlation between Geist and Bildung.
- Taking the universal in oneself; in acting out a skill, the man “finds himself.”
- Recognizes oneself in other being;
- To recognize one’s own in the alien. This is why Hegel was fond of classical antiquity: it was sufficiently removed so that we can more easily see ourselves in the Other (Gadamer 13).
- Sensus Communis: not just Reid’s “common sense,” but the sense which founds community (19ff).
- A sense of right and good that is acquired from living in community (Vico).
- The sense of community mediates its own positive knowledge (21).
- Judgment
- Bildung (Culture)