Literary 2

Question 1

Gadamer understanding is mediated by

Answer 1

Individual presupposition; they are necessary prerequisite

Truth and method

Question 2

Gadamer universal method

Answer 2

There is no one universal method, allowing to arrive at the truth

Question 3

Gadamer each interpretation has to be made for each particular case

Answer 3

Each interpretation has to be made for each particular case

Question 4

Gadamer. Meaning

Answer 4

The meaning depends on the context, rather than the authorial intention

Question 5

Gadamer

Historically effected consciousness

Answer 5

Being shaped by history and culture

Question 6

Gadamer

Personal growth

Answer 6

It is crucial to be confronted with other perspectives and worldviews

Question 7

Dialogue

Answer 7

Dialogue

Question 8

Dialogue

Familiarizing the unknown

Answer 8

The importance of familiarizing the unknown, bridging the gap between beings

Question 9

Dialogue

Form a bond

Answer 9

Reaching out to other beings to form a bond

Question 10

Dialogue

Basis for coexistence

Answer 10

It is the basis for coexistence

Question 11

Dialogue

The exchange of speech acts

Answer 11

Involves the exchange of speech acts…questions and answers

Question 12

Dialogue

Real reader

Answer 12

A real reader is a patient reader

Question 13

Gadamer

Horizons

Answer 13

A particular perspective, grounded in history and culture of the given period; it always limits presupposition

Question 14

Gadamer

Fusion of horizons

Answer 14

Coming together of two perspectives

Question 15

Gadamer

Expanding horizons

Answer 15

Through encounters with other culture

Art, conversation, learning, travelling

Question 16

Gadamer

Change and expansion of horizons

Answer 16

The change and expansion of individual understanding, enables one to interpret oneself more fully

Question 17

Paul Ricoeur 1969

Answer 17

The conflict of interpretations

Question 18

Ricoeur

Idem vs. Ipse

Answer 18

What and who we are the physicality vs. Non physicality

Question 19

Ricoeur

Animal rational vs. Homo narran

Answer 19

Without narration it is impossible to establish ones identity
Biography: first person narration, internal focalizer, story of ones life, autobiographical elements

Question 20

Ricoeur

Tradition

Answer 20

A spiritual link between the past and the present, essential for self understanding

Question 21

Ricoeur

Story telling

Answer 21

Help organize the temporal experience of the self, it brings to agreement and gives meaning to the various human exoerpience.
Usually these stories emphasize time and subjectively important events

Question 22

Ricoeur

Narrative identity

Answer 22

Constructed through the narration of ones life

Question 23

Ricoeur
Narrative identity
Temporality

Answer 23

Chronology: subjective time; profound role of memory

Subjects important for the narrator, recurring ideas

Question 24

Ricoeur
Narrative identity
Redemption

Answer 24

Through sacrifice , recover, growth, learning , becoming better

Question 25

Narrative identity Ricoeur Contamination

Answer 25

Victimization , betrayal, loss, failure, illness, injury, disappointment, or disillusionment

Question 26

Narrative identity Ricoeur Contamination Agency

Answer 26

How far is the narrator self governed, independent; who/what influences them

Question 27

Narrative indentity Contamination Relation with others and the world

Answer 27

How far the communication is achieved

Question 28

Narrative identity Ricoeur Man is plural and collective unity

Answer 28

In which the unity of destinations d differences of destinies are tone understood through each other.

Question 29

Narrative identity Ricoeur Man is plural

Answer 29

Self exploration

Question 30

Narrative identity Ricoeur Man is plural

Answer 30

Subjective importance of events as far as they relate to the narrator, the lessons the narrator draws from the story

Question 31

Ricoeur | Time and history

Answer 31

Time is the motivating force of the self

Question 32

Ricoeur Time and history Three kinds of time

Answer 32

Cosmic time, a sequence of events objective Lived time aquires meaning through the relationship with the self subjective Historical time, a structured connection between cosmic and lived times

Question 33

Ricoeur | The conflict of interpretations

Answer 33

Meaning is not given directly, but through symbols, testifying to logos

Question 34

The conflict of interpretations

Answer 34

Symbols (text) should be explained with the techniques of exegesis Objective analysis with structuralist tools

Question 35

The conflict of interpretations

Answer 35

There is always a surplus of meaning which cannot be explained by exegesis

Question 36

Then conflict

Answer 36

Arises because of subjectivity of interpretations

Question 37

Other interpretations

Answer 37

While interpreting we have to take into account other interpretations and engage in dialogues with other interpreters

Question 38

Meaning of acts of discourse

Answer 38

Is always open to interpretation and always open to a new interpretations

Question 39

Which interpretation is more likely

Answer 39

We can always find criteria such as comprehensiveness , for determining which interpretation is more likely

Question 40

Gadamer 1960

Answer 40

Truth and Method