Gadamer's transformation of hermeneutics : from Dilthey to Heidegger

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to show how Gadamer's hermeneutics synthesizes the insights of both Heidegger and Dilthey in order to introduce a new hermeneutics. Gadamer's hermeneutics is based not only on the priority of ontology, as Heidegger insists, and neither is it only a product of life which can be objectively understood through study and rigorous method, as Dilthey suggests. For Gadamer, hermeneutics is the bringing together of ontology in terms of history. By this synthesis Gadamer not only places himself within the context of a Lebensphilosophie, but also shows that it is within language that Being can be disclosed according to a lived context. Throughout this paper the philosophies ofDilthey and Heidegger are explicated within a historical context as to bring out how, and why, Gadamer sees the need to surpass these philosophies. Through Gadamer's philosophy of play and the game, language, the dialogical model, application, and the fusion of horizons we can see how Gadamer's critique and questioning of these two philosophy leads to his new hermeneutics. Special attention is paid to the role in which these two contrasting philosophies were used to complement each other in the product of Gadamer' s philosophical hermeneutics as it is presented in his major work Truth andMethod. For Gadamer, the task of understanding is never complete. Therefore, his hermeneutics remains a dynamic structure with which we can always question the past and our traditions. This paper seeks to show his philosophical movements within these questions

Schooner Ranger document, 1810-1815

Partial transcription: Buffalo, August 15, 1815 This day settled all accounts between… respecting the purchase and sailing of the Schooner Ranger until she was laid up in the fare of 1811. For the value of the…of the said Schooner destroyed by the enemy in January 1813 and the rigging & c taken by the U.S. Navy Officers for the use of the Government a [Joint][appreciation] is to be made... Government for our mutual benefit. Porter & Barton for [the firm] of Porter Barton & Co. George Kibbe

Memoria de los acontecimientos políticos y militares pertenecientes al Partido de Tehuacán, en el tiempo de nuestra Independencia, la que comienza en el año de 1810, continua el espacio de catorce años y la concluye con los últimos acontecimientos que finalisaron en el año de 1824.

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Solemnes exequias que celebró la Santa Iglesia Catedral de Valladolid de Michoacán la mañana del 9 y 10 de mayo de 1810 por el alma del llmo. Señor Doctor Don Marcos Moriana y Zafrilla su dignissimo obispo.

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Cartas descriptivas sobre los cultos con que el piadoso pueblo de México ha celebrado las rogaciones públicas a María Santísima de los Remedios, verificadas en los conventos de esta corte desde el dia 31 de mayo hasta el 10 de agosto de 1810.

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La verdad sabida y buena fé guardada ; orígen de la espantosa revolución de Nueva España comenzada en 15 de septiembre de 1810 ; defensa de su fidelidad : quaderno primero

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Cuadro histórico de la Revolución Mexicana, comenzada en 15 de septiembre de 1810 por el Ciudadano Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Cura del pueblo de Dolores, en el Obispado de Michoacán

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Mi historia militar y política, 1810-1874: memorias inéditas

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Documentos históricos relativos a la Independencia Nacional, 1810-1821

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Mi historia militar y política, 1810-1874: memorias inéditas

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Mi historia militar y política 1810-1874: memorias inéditas.

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Constitución política de la República Mexicana, sobre la indestructible base de su legítima Independencia, proclamada el 16 de septiembre de 1810 y consumada el 27 de septiembre de 1821

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Un bibliothécaire parmi les humanistes : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 – 1716)

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