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You're listening to the partially examined life. A philosophy podcast by some guys who

had one point set on doing philosophy for living, that's not better of it. Our question for

episode 1-1-1 is something like, what is it to interpret a text or interpret anything for that

matter? And we read a selection of readings from Hans Georg Gautamer ranging from 1969 to 1972

you can join the discussion, get the text and less more information at partiallyexaminedlife.com

This is Mark Linton-Mire listening here with the good kind of prejudice in Madison, Wisconsin.

Hmm, this is Seth Pascon in Austin, Texas. This is Wes Owen and Boston, Massachusetts.

This is Dylan Casey in Middleton, Wisconsin.

So specifically, we read a little bit of his masterwork, his magnum opus Truth and Method,

which is from 1960. We just read some parts of chapter 4. Page is 268 to 273 and 291 to 299.

So stuff about prejudice as I just referred to. And then we read some later essays.

The University of the Herminutical Problem from 1966, aesthetics and hermeneutics from 1964,

and finally hermeneutics as practical philosophy from 1972. Do we say what hermeneutics is?

Who wants to start us?

Hmm. The short answer right is hermeneutics is the process of understanding.

That's kind of the more sophisticated version though, right?

Yeah, that's the short sophisticated version we can just stop now.

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