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142. Athenian Stranger: Gadamer's "Truth and Method" Part 3, Bildung (Culture)

142. Athenian Stranger: Gadamer's "Truth and Method" Part 3, Bildung (Culture)

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Athenian and I get together to begin working through the foundational concepts for Gadamer's argument that it is intuition and not method that give us access to understanding and thus truth.

Athenian Stranger and I work through the first of these crucial foundational concepts for Gadamer as he works to establish intuition as the ground of understanding and thus truth. The first of these is Bildung or culture. How is it that we have access to something that transcends our particularity? Can we grasp the universal, that which transcends us and binds us into a whole? We begin this effort “from below” with this idea of culture, Bildung.

[Note: our conversation is cut short because the Thanksgiving guests that Athenian was expecting arrived.]

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142. Athenian Stranger: Gadamer's "Truth and Method" Part 3, Bildung (Culture)

142. Athenian Stranger: Gadamer's "Truth and Method" Part 3, Bildung (Culture)

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