8 ideas
| 23392 | The Dao (Way) first means the road, and comes to mean the right way to live [Norden] |
| 21855 | Only in the 1780s did it become acceptable to read Spinoza [Lord] |
| 5435 | An interpreter of a text, because of wider knowledge, can understand it better than its author [Schleiermacher, by Mautner] |
| 22028 | Unity emerges from understanding particulars, so understanding is prior to seeing unity [Schleiermacher] |
| 23408 | The hermeneutic circle is either within the text, or between text and biased reader [Norden] |
| 23407 | Heremeneutics is either 'faith' (examining truth) or 'suspicion' (looking for hidden motives) [Norden] |
| 21866 | Hobbes and Spinoza use 'conatus' to denote all endeavour for advantage in nature [Lord] |
| 20959 | Concepts are only analytic once the predicate is absorbed into the subject [Schleiermacher] |