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| Bible criticism: Bible criticism in philosophy is the scholarly analysis of the Bible's historical context, authorship, and textual integrity, seeking to understand its origins and meanings. See also Bible, >Hermeneutics._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Enlightenment on Bible Criticism - Dictionary of Arguments
Gadamer I 277 Bible Criticism/Enlightenment/Gadamer: The possibility that what is written is not true is not easy to accept. Written material has the palpability of the pointable and is like a piece of evidence. It requires a special critical effort to free oneself from the prejudice cherished in favour of what is written and, as with all oral assertions, to distinguish between opinion and truth.(1) Now it is the general tendency of the Enlightenment not to accept any authority and to decide everything before the judgment seat of reason. Thus also the written tradition, the Holy Scripture like all other historical knowledge, cannot be valid per se, but the possible truth of the tradition depends on the credibility that reason grants it. It is not tradition but reason that is the ultimate source of authority. What is written need not be true. We can know better. This is the general maxim under which the modern Enlightenment confronts tradition, and through which it eventually becomes historical research. Cf. >Bible Criticism/Spinoza. [The Enlightenment] makes tradition an object of criticism in the same way that natural science makes the testimonies of semblance an object of criticism. This does not have to mean that the "prejudice against prejudice" has been pushed everywhere to the consequences of free spirits and atheism - as in England and France. On the contrary, the German Enlightenment mostly recognized the "true prejudices" of the Christian religion. Since human reason was too weak to get along without prejudices, it was just luck to be educated under true prejudices. >Prejudice, >Evidence, >Proofs, >Provability; for today's problems see >Misinformation. 1. A good example of this is how slowly the authority of ancient historiography has been destroyed in historical research, and how gradually archival research and soil research have become established (cf. e.g. R. G. Collingwood, Denken. Eine Autobiographie, X I. Chapter, which places the turn to soil research almost in parallel with the Bacon revolution in natural science)._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Enlightenment Gadamer I Hans-Georg Gadamer Wahrheit und Methode. Grundzüge einer philosophischen Hermeneutik 7. durchgesehene Auflage Tübingen 1960/2010 Gadamer II H. G. Gadamer The Relevance of the Beautiful, London 1986 German Edition: Die Aktualität des Schönen: Kunst als Spiel, Symbol und Fest Stuttgart 1977 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-27