Lexicon of Arguments

 

Gadamer I 264
Understanding/Heidegger/Gadamer: Understanding (...) is the original form of the accomplishment of Dasein, the "being-in-the-world" (...). Before all differentiation of understanding into the different directions of pragmatic or theoretical interest, understanding is the way of being of the Da-sein (German: "being-there"), as long as it is "possibility" and able to be.
>Dasein/Heidegger.
HeideggerVsDroysen/HeideggerVsDilthey: The concept of understanding is no longer a methodological concept, as in Droysen. Neither is understanding, as in Dilthey's attempt at a hermeneutical foundation of the humanities, an inverse operation that follows the course of life towards ideality.
Cf. >J.G. Droysen, >W. Dilthey.
Understanding is the original character of being of human life itself. (...) [Task of understanding]: to clarify this structure of Dasein through a "transcendental analysis of existence".
>Recognition/Heidegger.

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Figal I 69
Understanding/Heidegger/Figal: we understand ourselves in the different contexts of everyday life. Matter of course.
>Stuff.
Figal I 85
Understanding: immediately perceiving possibilities (future character).