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Individuals: In philosophy, individuals are entities that are distinct from other entities. They are typically characterized by their own unique properties and experiences. Individuals can be physical objects, such as humans, animals, and plants, or they can be non-physical objects, such as minds, souls, and thoughts. See also Particulars, Individuation.
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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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Friedrich Schleiermacher on Individuals - Dictionary of Arguments

Gadamer I 193
Individuals/Authorship/Understanding/Hermeneutics/Schleiermacher/Gadamer: [It is] Schleiermachers premise that each individuality is a manifestation of the all-life (German: "Alleben") and therefore "each carries a minimum of each within him- or herself, and divination is thus excited by comparison with oneself". So he can say that the individuality of the author is to be understood directly, "by transforming oneself, as it were, into the other". By intensifying the understanding of the problem of individuality as such, the task of hermeneutics presents itself to Schleiermacher as a universal one. For the two extremes of strangeness and familiarity are given with the relative difference of all individuality. The "method" of understanding will be as much concerned with what is common through comparison as with what is peculiar through guessing, that is, it will be both comparative and divinatory. But it will remain "art" in both respects, because it cannot be mechanized as an application of rules. The divinatory remains indispensable(1).
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1. Schleiermacher, Werke I, 7, 146f.

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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.
Schleiermacher, Friedrich
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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