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| World: The expression "world" refers to the entirety of existence, including the physical universe, diverse cultures, societies, and natural phenomena. It represents the interconnectedness within the cosmos, offering a perspective on the tangible and intangible aspects of existence. See also Totality, Existence, Reality, World/thinking._____________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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Hans-Georg Gadamer on World - Dictionary of Arguments
I 446 World/Language/Gadamer: The language is not only one of the equipments that are necessary for the human being, that is in the world, but is based on it, and in it it is shown that people have the world at all. For the human the world as a I 447 world is there, as it has no other existence for any living thing in the world. But this existence of the world is linguistically written. This is the actual core of the sentence that Humboldt expresses with a completely different intention, that languages are world views(1). What Humboldt is trying to say with this is that language asserts a kind of independent existence vis-à-vis the individual who belongs to a linguistic community and, as he or she grows into it, simultaneously introduces him or her to a certain world relationship and world behaviour. >W. v. Humboldt. More important, however, is what this statement is based on: that language, for its part, does not claim an independent existence in relation to the world that is expressed in it. Not only is the world only world, as far as it is expressed - language has its actual existence only in the fact that the world is represented in it. The original humanity of language thus means at the same time the original linguality of the human being-in-the-world. To have the world means: to relate to the world. However, to behave towards the world requires to keep oneself free from what is encountered from the world so far that one can put it in front of oneself as it is. This ability is in one having-world and having-language. Environment/Gadamer: The concept of the world thus stands in contrast to the concept of the environment, as it applies to all living beings in the world. >Environment/Gadamer, >World/Gadamer. I 453 (...) in language the world represents itself. The linguistic world experience is "absolute". It transcends all relativities of being, because it comprises I 454 all being-for-itself in whatever relationships (relativities) it manifests itself in. The linguistic nature of our experience of the world is prior to everything that is recognized and addressed as being. The basic reference of language and world does therefore not mean that the world becomes the object of language. I 451 World/World "in itself"/Worldviews/Gadamer: As linguistically composed, every (...) world is of itself open to every possible insight and thus to every expansion of its own worldview and accordingly accessible to others. "Being-for-itself": (...) thus the use of the term "world in itself" becomes problematic. The yardstick for the progressive expansion of one's own world view is not formed by the "world in itself", which is situated outside of all linguisticality. Rather, the infinite perfectibility of human experience of the world means that no matter what language one uses, one never arrives at anything other than an increasingly expanded aspect, a "view" of the world. >Hermeneutics/Gadamer. GadamerVsRelativism: The multiplicity of such views of the world does not mean a relativization of the "world". Rather, what the world itself is, nothing of the views in which it presents itself, is different. 1. W. von Humboldt, „Über die Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaus ..“ (first printed in 1836), § 9, p. 59_____________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. |
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 2024-04-20