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Hermeneutics
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A. The Notion and Problem of Understanding

Hermeneutics is an aid to the understanding of something which is not — as in matters which are to be “explained” — indifferent and external to the mind, but which is pervaded by individual, collective, permanent and historically conditioned elements and thus belongs to the world of intersubjective agreement. This universal and primordial p…

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Karl Lehmann, “Hermeneutics”, in: Sacramentum Mundi Online, General Editor Karl Rahner, SJ. Consulted online on 28 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2468-483X_smuo_COM_001770>
First published online: 2016



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