This work discusses the transformations in human self-understanding wrought by the scientific world-view, focusing in particular on the unparalleled achievements of modern medicine. It explores the ethical and humanist issues raised by the technological successes of modern clinical practice, and relates them to the classical conception of praxis in the philosophical tradition.

Der Verlag Nijhoff hat sich bereiterklart, die Akten der Tagungen des Institut International de Philosophie kiinftig in seine verlege- rische Obhut zu nehmen. Damit sind die allgemeinen Voraussetzun- gen geschaffen, die mir erlauben, nun die Referate unserer Arbeits- tagung in Heidelberg (12.-16. September 1969) in den Druck zu geben. Es entsprach der zwanglos-informellen Atmosphare unserer Zusammenkunft, daB die BegriiBungsreden, so die geistreiche und von Heidelberger Erinnerungen belebte Ansprache unseres damali- gen Prasidenten, Herrn Klibansky, sowie die temperamentvolle Be- griiBung...

Plato's Dialectical Ethics, Gadamer's earliest work, has now been translated into English for the first time. This classic book, published in 1931 and reprinted in 1967 and 1982, is still important today. It is one of the most extensive and imaginative interpretations of Plato's Philebus and an ideal introduction to Gadamer's thinking. It shows how his influential hermeneutics emerged from the application of his teacher Martin Heidegger's phenomenological method to classical texts and problems. The work consists of two chapters. The first, which puts Socratic/Platonic dialectics and ethics in...

In these essays, appearing for the first time in English, Gadamer addresses practical questions about recent politics in Europe, about education and university reform, and about the role of poetry in the modern world. This book also includes a series of interviews that the editors conducted in 1986. Gadamer elaborates on his experiences in education and politics, touching on the collapse of the Weimar Republic, the early Frankfurt School, Heidegger and the Nazis, university life in East Germany, and the prospects for Europe in the coming years.

Hans-Georg Gadamer was probably Heidegger's...

This volume presents six lively conversations with Hans-Georg Gadamer (born 1900), one of the twentieth century's master philosophers. Looking back over his life and thought, Gadamer takes up key issues in his philosophy, addresses points of controversy, and replies to his critics, including those who accuse him of having been in complicity with the Nazis. A genial and direct conversationalist, Gadamer is here captured at his best and most accessible.
The interviews took place between 1989 and 1996, and all but one appear in English for the first time in this volume. The first three...

Hans-Georg Gadamers Betrachtungen zu Krankheit und Gesundheit, zum Verhältnis von wissenschaftlicher Medizin und einer Heilkunst, die das Ganze im Auge behält, wenden sich über den Kreis der Philosophen und Mediziner hinaus an das Publikum der Patienten - also an uns alle.§Gadamers Sorge gilt der Beobachtung, daß über den krankheitsfixierten gewaltigen Fortschritten der Medizin der umfassende Zustand der Gesundheit aus dem Blick zu geraten droht und die natürliche Vorsorge für die eigene Gesundheit nur allzu leicht verkannt wird. Daher zeigt er uns, wie wir den »Zustand der inneren...

AnHifilich der 600-Jahrfeier der Ruperto-Carola-Univer sitat Heidelberg und parallel zu den tiber das ganze Jahr verteilten vieWiltigen Aktivitaten, Symposien und Festvor tragen der Universitat entschied der Gemeinderat der Stadt Heidelberg, sich nicht nur mit der "Stadt-Heidelberg-Stif tung" und deren Stiftungskapital von 2 Mio. DM, sondern auch mit einer Vortagsreihe an dem Jubilaumsjahr zu beteili gen. Schien es doch legitim, daB die Stadt, die seit sechs Jahrhunderten mit der Universitat lebt, tiber ihre traditions reichste Einrichtung nachdenken wollte. Als Titel der Vortragsreihe bot...

In the years shortly before and after the publication of his classic Truth and Method (1960), the eminent German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer returned often to questions surrounding religion and ethics. In this selection of writings from Gesammelte Werke that are here translated into English for the first time, Gadamer probes deeply into the hermeneutic significance of these subjects. Gadamer raises issues of importance to ethicists and theologians as well as students of language and literature. In such outstanding essays as "Kant and the Question of God," "Thinking as Redemption: Plotinus...