Notes on Gadamer, 1

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

1. The Significance of the human tradition for the human sciences
   1. The Problem of Method:
   2. The Guiding concepts of Humanism
      1. Bildung (Culture)
         1. Herder: rising up to humanity through culture.
         2. Kant: cultivating a capacity of natural talent.
         3. Latin equivalent: formatio
      2. Hegel and Bildung: the condition of its existence; correlation between Geist and Bildung.
         1. Taking the universal in oneself; in acting out a skill, the man “finds himself.”
         2. Recognizes oneself in other being;
         3. 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).
      3. Sensus Communis: not just Reid’s “common sense,” but the sense which founds community (19ff).
         1. A sense of right and good that is acquired from living in community (Vico).
         2. The sense of community mediates its own positive knowledge (21).
      4. Judgment