Platonski obrat k logosom in hermenevtični posluh

slovenian

2001

volume 10, issue 35/36

platonism    truth    hermeneutics    hermeneutic attentiveness   second navigation

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As a tendency towards understanding, philosophy is essentially linked with hermeneutics or Hermes as the mediator between gods and men. The Greeks used to call him logos, as was exactly the case with the Christian mediator Christ. And the Platonic "second navigation" also means the turn to philosophizing with the logoi. The hearing of the mediator's voice is a matter of hermeneutic attentiveness, which essentially defines the intonation of the philosophical question and the way of hearing an answer. This is especially the case with the question of truth: an instance of the counter-philosophical raising of this question is the Pilate's question, which according to Gadamer still determines our lives. This is why "the navigation through the logoi" cannot avoid the renewed questioning of its own presuppositions and starting-points, if it wishes to avoid the cacophony of arbitrary mediations.

09.01.2015