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| Culture: Culture is the shared knowledge, beliefs, values, customs, and practices of a group of people. It is transmitted from one generation to the next and can vary greatly from group to group. Culture can be found in all aspects of human life, from our language and religion to our food and clothing._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Wilhelm von Humboldt on Culture - Dictionary of Arguments
Gadamer I 445 Culture/World/Language/Humboldt/Gadamer: Humboldt: (...) Humboldt once said that the learning of a foreign language must be the acquisition of a new point of view in the previous world view, and continues: "Just because one always, more or less, transfers one's own world view, yes, one's own language view into a foreign language, this success is not felt purely and completely"(1). No matter how much you put yourself in a foreign mind, you don't forget your own world view, even your own language view. Rather, the other world that confronts us there is not only a foreign world, insofar as it is relationally different. It has not only its own truth in itself, but also its own truth for us. The other world that is experienced there is not simply an object of exploration, of knowing oneself and knowing what is going on. Cf. >Sapir-Whorf thesis, >Relativism, >Cultural relativism, >Understanding, >Language acquisition, >Language/Humboldt. 1. W. von Humboldt, „Über die Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaus ..“ (first printed in 1836), § 9._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Humboldt, W. von Gadamer I Hans-Georg Gadamer Wahrheit und Methode. Grundzüge einer philosophischen Hermeneutik 7. durchgesehene Auflage Tübingen 1960/2010 Gadamer II H. G. Gadamer The Relevance of the Beautiful, London 1986 German Edition: Die Aktualität des Schönen: Kunst als Spiel, Symbol und Fest Stuttgart 1977 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-26