Searching for Possibilities of Praxis-oriented Politics: In the Context of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Hermeneutical Humanism (2017.06)
2017.06.01
- Author : Chi-won Choi
- Journal : Zeitschrift der Koreanisch-Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sozialwissenschaften
- Publisher : Koreanisch-Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozialwissenschaften
- Volume : 27(2)
- Publication Date : June, 2017
- Abstract : If politics is understood as a science, it is supposed to be the science based on natural sciences. The natural sciences aim at attaining the truth whose essence is repeatability, prediction, regularity and law, which completely get rid not only of man but also of the context of history, institutions, practices and language on the basis of which man lives. The politics, while it ceaselessly apes the manners of natural sciences, has lost its identity and it ability to reflect itself. It is thus necessary to reflect and recover the true meaning of the politics, in the light of the discipline which is different from natural sciences and which explores the questions of human, morals and social & historical phenomenon. This study explores the meaning of the politics by reconstructing moments of Gadamer’s hermeneutical humanism inherent in ‘Geisteswissenschaften’ and show that regarding the politics as science is like illusion or myth.