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| Dialogue: A Dialog is a written or spoken conversational exchange between two people. It can be used to share information, ideas, and feelings, to build relationships, and to solve problems. Dialogue can be formal or informal. See also Discourse, Discourse theory._____________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 Dialogue - Dictionary of Arguments
I 308 Dialogue/Understanding/Gadamer: Just as in conversation the other person, after having determined his or her position and horizon, becomes understandable in his or her opinions without the need to get along with that person, so for the one who thinks historically, the tradition becomes understandable in its sense without one nevertheless understanding with it and in it. In both cases the person who understands has, as it were, withdrawn from the situation of understanding. He or she is not to be found. By including the other's point of view in what he or she claims to tell you from the outset, you put your own point of view in a safe inaccessibility. Cf. >I-You-Relationship/Gadamer. I 372 Dialectic: Dialectic as the art of questioning only proves its worth in the fact that the one who knows how to ask is able to capture his or her questioning, and that means: the direction into the open. The art of questioning is the art of asking further questions, i.e. it is the art of thinking. It is called dialectic, because it is the art of having a real conversation. >Openness. I 373 The maieutic productivity of the Socratic dialogue, its midwifery of the word, may well address the human persons who are the partners in the conversation, but it only adheres to the opinions they express and whose immanent factual consistency is developed in the conversation. Logos: What emerges in its truth is the logos, which is neither mine nor yours, and which therefore surpasses the subjective meaning of the interlocutors in a way I 374 that the person leading the conversation always remains the unknowing person. >Logos. I 375 Hegel: But the originality of the conversation as the reference of question and answer is even more evident in such an extreme case as Hegelian dialectic as a philosophical method. To unfold the totality of thought determinations, as it was the concern of Hegel's logic, is, as it were, the attempt in the great monologue of the modern "method" to embrace the continuum of meaning, the particular realization of which is provided by the conversation of the speakers. >Logic/Hegel. When Hegel sets himself the task of liquefying and putting a spirit in (sic) the abstract determinations of thought, this means melting logic back into the consummative form of language, the concept back into the meaning of the word that asks and answers - a reminder, still in failure, of what dialectic actually was and is. Hegel's Dialectic is a monologue of thought that seeks to achieve in advance what gradually matures in each real conversation. I 387 [In a conversation] the partners (...) are far less the leaders than the led. Nobody knows in advance what will "come out" of a conversation. The understanding or its failure is like an event that has happened to us._____________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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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-19