Life and Practical Reason

Author: Gong Qun
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: The author believes that the spiritual life of humans is the deep core concept of hermeneutics. Interpreting Heidegger's concept of pre-understanding and Gadamer's concept of prejudice cannot be separated from the inherent ethical elements. This book is a pioneering work in China that comprehensively discusses the relationship between hermeneutics and ethics. Ethics in life, as a fundamental factor of hermeneutics, possesses what kind of interpretive power? In other words, why can it become a foundational factor of hermeneutics? What do we use to interpret ethics? Ethics itself cannot be the factor that interprets itself, because this is different from the hermeneutic cycle between the part and the whole. If ethics interprets itself, it does not provide a legitimate basis for its own existence. To interpret ethics, one must seek in the factors of human existence that are more fundamental than ethics. In terms of examples from the history of thought, this is the natural life of humans, or their original life.