scholarly journals Gadamer’s Appropriation of Pietism

Philosophies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Barry Stephenson
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
German Idealism ◽  
Fundamental Aspect ◽  
Philosophical Hermeneutics ◽  
Philosophical Significance ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Sensus Communis ◽  
Deep Sense ◽  
Foundation Stone

A foundation stone of Hans Georg Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics is the notion of the sensus communis. The philosophical significance of a “sensus communis” (common sense) begins with Aristotle, who offered scattered reflections. The topic was taken up in earnest in Enlightenment thought and in German idealism, but it became more of an individual faculty, lacking the deep sense of community and tradition found in earlier formulations. In this paper, the author demonstrates Gadamer’s debt to Pietist thought, examining his appropriation and use of the theology of Friedrich Christoph Oetinger (1702–1782), a leading figure in Swabian Pietism, whose ideas had a significant impact in theological circles and broader cultural life. Gadamer’s critique of the Enlightenment’s ‘prejudice against prejudice,’ owes a debt to the Pietist conception of the sensus communis and his practical philosophy to Pietism’s emphasis on ‘application’ as a fundamental aspect of a hermeneutical triad.

Back in Time: The Bildungsroman and the Source of Moral Agency

Good Form ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 124-152
Author(s):  
Jesse Rosenthal
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Moral Agency ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Moral Intuition ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Great Expectations ◽  
Miss Marjoribanks ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Sensus Communis ◽  
Physical Sensation

This chapter focuses on the Bildungsroman, studying the philosophical and literary significance of the novel of development. Through readings of Margaret Oliphant's Miss Marjoribanks (1866), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Charles Dickens's Great Expectations, and John Stuart Mill's Autobiography, it suggests that the ethical foundations of the concept of Bildung—and in particular the idea of sensus communis (common sense)—made form in the Bildungsroman, lay the groundwork for one's own understanding of what makes a novel count as an object of study. The operating principle in the narrative structure of the Bildungsroman is the discovery that one is already a member of a community, and that one's decisions can be understood as stemming from that community. Proper cultivation means the development of a character that can understand and respond to the pre-existing, yet unconscious, shared consensus: the sensus communis. This sort of reciprocity between individual and community is actually a better description of how moral intuition worked, at its more refined levels, than references to physical sensation.

Conclusion

2009 ◽  
pp. 151-160
Author(s):  
Celia Britton
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Community Or

Each of the preceding chapters has been devoted to a different novel’s representation of community; I would like to conclude by exploring some of the differences and similarities between them. Do they share a common sense of community, or do they have nothing in common? Is the sense of community merely a matter of common sense, in both senses, or is it a problematic, fragile and conflictual construct?...

scholarly journals INTUISI: Pendalaman Gagasan Hans-George Gadamer tentang Intuisi sebagai Supralogika

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-125
Author(s):  
Rannu Sanderan
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Aspect ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Hermeneutic Philosophy ◽  
Musical Sounds ◽  
Sensus Communis ◽  
Hans Georg Gadamer ◽  
General Truth

This article explains about digging deeper of Hans-Georg Gadamer's ideas, in term of intuition as a supralogic. This study aim is to find out how the role of intuition develops a view of the goodness and the general truth. In this case, intuition allows someone to act wisely, also could live harmoniously in their community base. Research design: This research aims to describe Gadamer's view of intuition from the point of view of hermeneutic philosophy. The concept of humans is discussed more clearly by Gadamer in his own four ideas, that is: (1) bildung or culture, (2) sensus communis or conscience or heart, (3) consideration, and (4) taste. In this study, can be drawn that the idea of a communist census enables one to act almost intuitively. Implication and the result: Intuition or heart, heart or conscience has a social aspect, that is the sense of community, and by which we can gain knowledge and carry out interpretations. The Intuition approach as a supralogic is an openness to others, whatever its form, be it text, musical sounds or works of art, whose truth cannot be achieved by scientific methods. It is hoped that this study will bring benefit for cultural practitioners and education observers. Pendalaman gagasan Hans-Georg Gadamer tentang intuisi sebagai supralogika. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah hendak mengetahui bagaimanakah peran intuisi memperkembangkan suatu pandangan kebaikan yang benar dan umum? Dalam hal ini, intuisi memungkinkan seseorang bertindak bijak, hidup serasi di dalam komunitas. Penelitian ini hendak menguraikan pandangan Gadamer tentang intuisi dari sudut pandang filsafat hermeneutik. Konsep tentang manusia dibahas lebih luas oleh Gadamer dalam empat konsep, yakni bildung atau kebudayaan, sensus communis atau suara hati atau kalbu, pertimbangan dan taste atau selera. Dalam kajian ini, gagasansensus communis-lah yang memungkinkan seseorang bertindak hampir-hampir secara intuitif. Hasilnya, intuisi atau hati, kalbu atau suara hati mempunyai aspek sosial yaitu rasa komunitas, dan olehnya kita dapat mengetahui dan menginterpretasi. Pendekatan Intuisi sebagai supralogi adalah keterbukaan terhadap yang lain, apapun bentuknya, baik teks, bunyi musik atau karya seni, yang kebenarannya tak dapat dicapai dengan metode ilmiah. Kajian ini diharap memberi manfaat bagi pelaku budaya dan pemerhati pendidikan.  

Poetic logic and sensus communis

Semiotica ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (225) ◽  
pp. 447-455 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ersu Ding
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Academic World ◽  
Aesthetic Judgement ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Giambattista Vico ◽  
New Science ◽  
Sensus Communis ◽  
Cultural Turn

AbstractGiambattista Vico first published his masterpiece The New Science in 1725, but it did not receive much attention from the academic world until the middle of the twentieth century. The last fifty years of academic research have witnessed a so-called “linguistic” and “cultural” turn which has revived our interest in this great Italian thinker. Looking at the Vichian scholarship of the recent past, it seems that Vico’s theory of poetic wisdom has gained a great deal of recognition and deservedly so, but his concept of sensus communis is yet to be fully appreciated. The present article thus tries to discuss the constructive and imaginative function of language and culture not just through the notion of poetic logic but also in relation to that of common sense, which hopefully can shed some light on the perennial debate over the criterion of truth and aesthetic judgement.

scholarly journals The idea of "common sense" revisited: A contribution to an "aisthetic turn" of aesthetics

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-46
Author(s):  
Tanehisa Otabe
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Broad Sense ◽  
Aesthetic Appreciation ◽  
Artistic Experience ◽  
The World ◽  
Sensus Communis

We have been experiencing an "aisthetic turn" of aesthetics which focuses neither on our artistic experience or creation, nor on the idea of beauty, but on the aisthesis's role in our aesthetic appreciation, or rather on our aisthetetic consciousness of our being. The purpose of this paper is to revise the idea of "common sense" of Aristotle and Kant, aiming at reorganizing and reanimating their insights and thereby contributing to an "aisthetic turn" of aesthetics. Based on commonly held beliefs, there are two strands in the idea of "common sense": the Aristotelian idea of something intra-subjective that is common to the different senses in one individual and the Ciceronian idea of something inter-subjective that is common to different individuals. Kant's concept of common sense is regarded as belonging to the second strand. In contrast to such beliefs, I argue as follows: first, that in Aristotle there is already a productive germ of the second vein and, second, that Kant's aesthetics succeeds prominently Aristotelean concept of "common sense." What is at issue in the sensus communis in the broad sense is, therefore, our aisthetic consciousness of our own being or life. Put in a modern terminology, it is the aisthesis that guarantees the "feeling of realness" (Hannah Arendt) of ourselves and, therefore, also the world in which we live together with others.

scholarly journals Ruralization of the (Urbane) Concept of Sensus Communis in a 19th-century Hungarian Philosophical Controversy

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-40
Author(s):  
Béla Mester
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Present Article ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Deep Roots ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
Philosophical Life ◽  
Sensus Communis

Abstract The topic of the present article is the destruction of the common sense tradition linked to the urbanity of philosophy, which had deep roots both in the European and Hungarian traditions. This destruction was based on Hegelian ideas by János Erdélyi as an argument of the greatest philosophical controversy of the Hungarian philosophical life in the 1850s. In Erdélyi’s argumentation, the turn from the supposed urbanity to the supposed rurality of the common sense has a fundamental role. The idea of the rurality of the common sense has an influence on the Hungarian intellectual history of the next centuries, as well.

Evil in the Western Philosophical Tradition

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavin Rae
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
German Idealism ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Analytical Philosophy ◽  
Western Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Cornelius Castoriadis ◽  
The Problem Of Evil ◽  
History Of ◽  
Theological Thought

While Western moral, philosophical, and theological thought has historically privileged the good, this has been accompanied by profound, if subterranean, interest in evil. This book charts a history of evil as it has been thought within this tradition. Showing that the problem of evil, as a conceptual problem—that is, as a problem to be dealt with through rational means—came to the fore with the rise of monotheism, this book initially outlines the dynamics that led to it becoming the problem of Christianity, before tracing how subsequent thought, first within an explicitly theological framework, and subsequently from secular foundations, developed from this problematic. With chapters on figures in early and Medieval Christian philosophy, modern philosophy, German Idealism, Nietzsche, Arendt, post-structuralism, and contemporary analytical philosophy, it demonstrates the breadth and depth of thinking on evil within this tradition and includes discussions on thinkers not normally included in analyses of the topic, such as Jacques Lacan and Cornelius Castoriadis. These reveal that, far from being something clear and obvious as common-sense, everyday intuition tends to hold, the meaning and nature of evil has been remarkably complex, differentiated, and contested.

scholarly journals Iris Murdoch and Common Sense Or, What Is It Like To Be A Woman In Philosophy

2020 ◽  
Vol 87 ◽  
pp. 201-220
Author(s):  
Hannah Marije Altorf
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Iris Murdoch ◽  
Philosophical Writing ◽  
Sensus Communis ◽  
Mary Midgley

AbstractPhilosophy is one of the least inclusive disciplines in the humanities and this situation is changing only very slowly. In this article I consider how one of the women of the Wartime Quartet, Iris Murdoch, can help to challenge this situation. Taking my cue from feminist and philosophical practices, I focus on Murdoch's experience of being a woman and a philosopher and on the role experience plays in her philosophical writing. I argue that her thinking is best characterised with the notion of common sense or sensus communis. This term recognises her understanding of philosophy as based in experience and as a shared effort ‘to make sense of our life’, as Mary Midgley puts it.

scholarly journals A reabilitação da Tradição Humanista como experiência de verdade em Hans-Georg Gadamer/The rehabilitation of the humanist tradition as experience of truth on Hans-Georg Gadamer

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (13) ◽  
pp. 239
Author(s):  
Cristiano Capovilla ◽  
Almir Ferreira da Silva Júnior
Keyword(s):  
Human Sciences ◽  
Philosophical Hermeneutics ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
Philosophical Issue ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Enlightenment Project ◽  
Humanist Tradition ◽  
Sensus Communis ◽  
Hans Georg Gadamer

O trabalho parte da investigação de Gadamer sobre o desdobramento do projeto iluminista e sua pretensão de envolver a totalidade do saber humano, condicionando seus caminhos e determinando seus meios a partir do sucesso e eficácia do horizonte físico-matemático. As repercussões dessa influência na própria autofundamentação das ciências humanas representam um grande risco, pois transcende as questões das diferenças entre métodos, dizendo respeito aos próprios objetivos do conhecimento humano. Trata-se, pois, da finalidade do conhecimento, isto é, das questões referentes à dimensão ética e política. A hermenêutica filosófica vem justamente argumentar que é na impossibilidade de escapar dos pressupostos ontológicos e metafísicos do compreender que reside a abertura para tratar das ciências humanas como uma questão filosófica. É frente a essa abertura a uma tradição de conhecimento que a hermenêutica realiza uma reabilitação dos conceitos humanistas de Formação (Bildung); Sensus communis; Juízo e Gosto. Sua intenção é desvelar o quanto de experiência da verdade ficou fora da abordagem das ciências humanas ao se fundamentarem nos constrangimentos metodológicos impostos pela epistemologia moderna.Abstract: The work of the Gadamer researches on the deployment of the Enlightenment project and its wish to involve the whole of human knowledge, conditioning his ways and determining their means from the success and effectiveness of the physical-mathematical horizon. The repercussions of that influence in their own self-foundation the humanities represent a great risk, for it transcends the issues of differences between methods, saying about the own objectives of human knowledge. It is therefore the purpose of knowledge, that is, the issues of ethical and political dimension. The philosophical hermeneutics has rightly argued that it is impossible to escape the ontological and metaphysical assumptions of understanding is where lies on the opening to treat the human sciences as a philosophical issue. It is against this opening to a tradition of knowledge that hermeneutics performs a rehabilitation of humanistic concepts of Formation (Bildung); Sensuscommunis; Judgment and Taste. His intention is to reveal how much experience the truth got out of the approach of the human sciences when substantiating the methodological constraints imposed by modern epistemology. Keywords: human sciences, humanism, verity, hermeneutics.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document