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| Openness: Openness to experience, also known simply as openness, is a personality trait that is characterized by a willingness to try new things, a curiosity about the world, and an appreciation for beauty and aesthetics. People who are high in openness are often creative and imaginative, and they enjoy learning new things. See also Personality, Personality traits._____________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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Hans-Georg Gadamer on Openness - Dictionary of Arguments
I 368 Openness/Question/Hermeneutics/Gadamer: We ask (...) about the logical structure of openness that characterizes the hermeneutic consciousness and remember the importance of this in the analysis of the hermeneutical situation the concept of the question. >Question. The realization that the thing is different and not as one first believed, obviously presupposes the passage through the question, whether it is one way or another. The openness that lies in the nature of experience is, logically, precisely this openness of the one way or the other. It has the structure of the question. I 369 Dialectic: (...) the full extent of dialectic [is] the questioning and answering, or better, the passage of all knowledge through the question. To ask questions means to put them into the open. The openness of the questioned consists in the non-fixedness of the answer. Every question completes its meaning only in the passage through such a limbo, in which it becomes an open question. Every genuine question demands this openness. If it lacks this openness, it is basically an illusory question that has no real sense of questioning. Meaning: (...) the openness of the question [is] not a boundless one. Rather, it includes the certain delimitation by the horizon of the question. A question that lacks the same is void. It only becomes a question when the fluid indeterminacy of the direction in which it points is placed in the specific of one way or another. >Question/Gadamer, >Dialogue/Gadamer, >I-You-Relationship/Gadamer._____________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. |
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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