Hans-Georg Gadamer

"Miguel Ángel Quintana Paz: 2.doc "On Hermeneutical Ethics and Education", a paper on the relevance of Gadamer's Hermeneutics for our understanding of music, ethics and education in both."

"Hans-Georg Gadamer at Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy"

"The hermeneutic consciousness, which must be awakened and kept awake, recognizes that in the age of science philosophy's claim of superiority has something chimerical and unreal about it. But though t…"

"We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said. It would be an inadmissible abstraction to contend that we must first have achieved a contemporan…"

"Being that can be understood is language."

"Aristotle established the classical definition of man, according to which man is the living being who has logos. In the tradition of the West, this definition became canonical in a form which stated t…"

"Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept what someone wants to say to us by claiming we already know it."

"The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows that from the forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it. What is said in it con…"