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Ideas of Hans-Georg Gadamer, by Text

[German, 1900 - 2002, Born at Marburg. Student of Heidegger. At several German universities.]

1960	Truth and Method

	p.69	20928	Facts don't oppose values; they are integrated into each person's aspirations
			Full Idea: Gadamer shows that we cannot oppose facts to values, but that all facts are integrated into meaningful wholes through a personal commitment to some kind of vision of how things ought to be.
			From: report of Hans-Georg Gadamer (Truth and Method [1960]) by Jens Zimmermann - Hermeneutics: a very short introduction
			A reaction: Straw man here. Whoever said that facts were 'opposed' to values? Certainly not David Hume. Any sensible empiricist of that type would try to develop values that integrated nicely with the facts. Gadamer seems to be denying facts.

p.450	p.132	22333	Only language is understandable Being
			Full Idea: Being that can be understood is language.
			From: Hans-Georg Gadamer (Truth and Method [1960], p.450), quoted by Hans-Johann Glock - What is Analytic Philosophy? 5.2
			A reaction: [also 1967 p.19] Glock quotes this to show that continental philosophers are just as linguistic in their approach as the analytic school. I think the main aim of representational painting is to grasp non-linguistic Being.