Foundation epistemology of human sciences (The dialogue of Habermas to Dilthey)

  • Antonio M. López Molina
Keywords: Historic-Hermeneutic sciences, The hermeneutic circle, Vital context, Practice interest of the knowledge, Dilthey, Habermas

Abstract

The thesis that I wish to discuss in this paper is the next: Human Sciences (Cultural Sciences according to Dilthey, Historic-Hermeneutic sciences according to Habermas) are possible as far as the method that should make all of them possible can be epistemologically justified, this method is the hermeneutic understanding of meaning, whose central point is, in fact, the hermeneutic circle. The matter is to try to justify epistemologically the hermeneutic as understanding the meaning of the own and the other ones life experiences within reflexivity and reciprocity that impregnates the structure of ordinary language. In the dialogue Habermas to Dilthey, in Knowledge and Human Interests appear many arguments to this foundation. Our text will make special emphasis in the next items: distinction between natural sciences and cultural sciences, hermeneutic understanding of meaning, ordinary language and reflexivity, specificity of the hermeneutic circle, science an vital context, and, finally, we are going to make an account of the Habermas interpretation of the Dilthey start point in bases to the relationships between Historic-hermeneutic sciences and the practice interest of the knowledge.

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Published
2008-10-10
How to Cite
López Molina A. M. (2008). Foundation epistemology of human sciences (The dialogue of Habermas to Dilthey). Anales del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía, 25, 407-426. https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/ASHF/article/view/ASHF0808110407A
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Estudios