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https://doi.org/10.52685/pihfb.48.1(95).2
Was Matthias Flacius Illyricus a Proponent of Hermeneutical Realism?
Jure Zovko
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Maja Ferenec Kuća
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Sažetak
Dilthey and Gadamer characterized Matthias Flacius Illyricus as a classic example of the hermeneutic approach to philosophy. Taking into consideration the fact that, for Flacius, the key rule was that the text should be interpreted in accordance with its immanent meaning, he developed two interpretive maxims, scope and the hermeneutic circle, that are crucial for the further development and constitution of hermeneutics as a method of understanding. He can also be considered an anticipator of the charity principle. Flacius combined the inductive-synthetic and deductive-analytical methods to explain the complex hermeneutic relationship between the text as a whole and parts of the text. This relationship represents the demanding process of implementing the hermeneutic circle in which the application of a model of coherence of truth is at work in the heuristic process of understanding. In other words, we are dealing with a gradual reconstruction of the meaning of the text. During this explanatory process, it becomes clear that the meaning of individual parts and smaller thematic units is understandable only from the structure and composition of the whole text and that the gradual inductive-synthetic reconstruction of the meaning of the text presupposes the application of the deductive-analytical method. Furthermore, in the heuristic process of reading the text, it is necessary to check in which way the individual passages fit into the broader entirety of the text to constitute a coherent and internally consistent whole. The interpretive maxims, scope and the hermeneutic circle, are established as a reliable organon in the heuristic process of understanding and explaining the text. In this context, Flacius’ hermeneutic demand for an adequate reconstruction of meaning can be easily compared to the charity principle as it is understood by Donald Davidson, taking it to be one of the basic notions of his philosophy. Namely, Flacius starts from the assumption of the reasonableness of speech and argumentation, which implies the possibility of a hermeneutic reconstruction of the text and its adequate understanding. Davidson also tried to show, using triangulation, how the objective world becomes an intersubjective world of understanding and appreciation through the language of communication. This in turn means that our understanding of the outside world is conditioned by a shared system of knowledge and communication that can never be individualistic because we participate in a common world. Davidson’s concept of triangulation marked the model of hermeneutic chastity, which was already described by the representative of enlightenment hermeneutics Georg Friedrich Meier, in a new way. Given that the problem of the anti-realist approach cannot be solved by invoking rigid hermeneutic realism or objectivism, what we want to show in the text is that hermeneutics should be understood, contrary to Rorty, as an interpretive consensus of experts established within the academic community. This goes in hand with Paul Lorenzen and his attitudes about the consensus of experts. Lorenzen was later followed by Jürgen Habermas, especially in terms of interpretability, while elaborating on his theories of communicative action.
Ključne riječi
hermeneutic realism; understanding; text interpretation; scope, the hermeneutic circle; charity principle; intersubjective consensus
Hrčak ID:
284053
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Datum izdavanja:
12.7.2022.
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