Hermeneutics

Writes Scott Scott Weisman: I have only just started reading Murray’s article in today’s edition. I took a course on hermeneutics in college. I don’t remember the course title. But the book was Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Truth and Method. The book was absolutely, utterly incomprehensible. In hindsight, I’m not sure why the prof even taught the course. I took it because of previous courses I took by him (European History and Philosophy of Science) in which he had a very refreshing and quite tolerant view of well-known episodes like Galileo (hint: He wasn’t the saint secularists try to paint him as, … Continue reading Hermeneutics