Habituation and Hermeneutics: Toward a Thomistic Account of Pre-Understanding
Human existence entails that our encounter with the world is mediated by the context, historicity, and concrete particularities of that existence. Consequently, this situatedness, which contributes to our pre-understanding, makes us more or less capable of “seeing” the truth of the world we encounte...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2017
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New blackfriars
Year: 2017, Volume: 98, Issue: 1077, Pages: 510-520 |
| Further subjects: | B
Connaturality
B Aquinas B Hermeneutics B Pre-understanding B Habituation |
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| Summary: | Human existence entails that our encounter with the world is mediated by the context, historicity, and concrete particularities of that existence. Consequently, this situatedness, which contributes to our pre-understanding, makes us more or less capable of “seeing” the truth of the world we encounter. The hermeneutical principle of pre-understanding is sometimes presupposed to be ambivalent toward, if not in opposition to, traditional metaphysics. The present essay shows how traditional metaphysics, specifically of a Thomistic sort, need not be pitted against hermeneutics, but rather, offers the ground for understanding the way in which pre-understanding, as our habituation into and connaturality with truth, and ultimately, God, is that means by which right interpretation is made possible. |
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| ISSN: | 1741-2005 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: New blackfriars
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/nbfr.12105 |