Hans-Georg Gadamer on Understanding and Being Right

„From Gadamer I learned that to understand a given thinker requires one to presuppose that he is right.“

Hans-Georg GadamerHans-Georg Gadamer on presuming a thinker is right as a condition of understanding—a concise quote on hermeneutics.
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Hans-Georg Gadamer was a German philosopher known for his work in philosophical hermeneutics.

This hermeneutic quotation emphasizes that genuine understanding requires initially presuming a thinker's inner coherence.


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Hans-Georg Gadamer was a German philosopher internationally recognized for his work "Truth and Method," which is foundational for philosophical hermeneutics. He focused on the theory of understanding and text interpretation, as well as the role of tradition and language.

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"Rhetoric as a philosophical method—in other words, we must finally learn once again how to have a proper conversation. This is a very significant responsibility for philosophy. A conversation presupposes that the other person might be right." Hans-Georg Gadamer
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"The hermeneutic consciousness, which must be awakened and kept awake, recognized that in the age of science philosophy's claim of superiority has something chimerical and unreal about it. But though the will of man is more than ever intensifying its criticism of what has gone before to the point of becoming utopian or eschatological consciousness, the hermeneutic consciousness seeks to confront that will with something of the truth of remembrance: with what is still and ever again real." Hans-Georg Gadamer
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"What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now. The philosopher, of all people, must, I think, be aware of the tension between what he claims to achieve and the reality in which he finds himself." Hans-Georg Gadamer
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