The Development Of Hermeneutics In The Era Of Friedrich Schleiermacher

Abstract

My present project concern itself how the term hermeneutics developed on Friedrich Schleiermacher’s era, for that first we talk something about the relation between philosophy and hermeneutics. All through the hermeneutics as exegesis is essentially embedded in tradition, the emergence of hermeneutics in the modern period and engagement with philosophy need special attention for there are different dimension of this relation. But before we attempt to explore thin relationship it will be order to have on idea what hermeneutics is. The term ‘Hermeneutics’ comes from a Greek word ‘Hermes’ which means ‘to interpret’ and earliest occurrence is found in Plato’s Cratylus in Greek mythology ‘Hemer’ in the messenger of gods, a go between of gods and humans, who tells lies as well as truth’s, who misleads as well as leads. Similar Aristotle’s   work per Hermeneutics (on interpretation) concerns the way in which sentences or statements can be understood. Hermeneutics then is the traditional name for the art of interpretation.

Principle of the interpretation were laid down in ancient and medieval attempts to interpret sacred texts, e.g., the biblical text. During the late middle ages, hermeneutics was applied specifically to the interpretation of legal texts and was later revitalized in philology by the effort of Renaissance humanist revive classical learning in the Enlightenment and in the Romantic era hermeneutics was looked upon a providing some kind of general method of understanding. In the nineteenth century, it emerged with Friedrich Schleiermacher’s as a separate and independent discipline on its own right as ‘general hermeneutics’, as a general method of understanding, or as a general theory of interpretation- grammatical and psychological for all type of texts.