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| Tactfulness: Tactfulness is the ability to communicate or handle situations in a considerate and sensitive manner, without causing offense or discomfort. See also Behavior, Communication, Actions._____________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 Tactfulness - Dictionary of Arguments
I 22 Tact/tactfulnessGadamer: By tact we understand a certain sensitivity and sensibility for situations and the behaviour in them, for which we have no knowledge from general principles. Therefore, inexpressibility and unexpressibility belong essentially to tact. One can say something tactfully. But that will always mean that one tactfully passes over something and leaves it unsaid, and is tactless to say what one can only pass over. But to pass over does not mean: to look away from something, but to keep it in view in such a way that one does not bump into it, but passes it by. That is why tact helps to keep one's distance. It avoids the offensive, the approaching and the violation of the intimate sphere of the Person. Tactfulness/Helmholtz/Gadamer: Now the tact that Helmholtz speaks of is not in keeping with this moral and social phenomenon are simply identical. (>Tact/Helmholtz.) But there is an essential commonality here. For even the tact, which is effective in the humanities, does not exhaust itself in being a feeling and unconscious, but is a way of cognition and a way of being at the same time. >Tact/Helmholtz, >Humanities/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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