Hermeneutics and Its Problems
With Selected Essays in Phenomenology
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Philosophy in the Early St. Petersburg Theology Academy: toward the roots of classical Russian idealism
The St. Petersburg Theological Academy was the first of the four academies in the early years of the nineteenth century to undergo a remodeling along the lines of a new charter for the empire’s church-affiliat...
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Gustav Shpet’s Path Through Phenomenology to Philosophy of Language
Already in his 1913 Ideen I, Husserl claimed that there are two types of intuition: experiencing, that is, sense, intuition and ideal (or eidetic) intuition. The former provides us with contingent facts, whereas ...
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Gustav Shpet’s Implicit Phenomenological Idealism: A Response to Husserl’s Ideas I
The issue of whether the phenomenology presented in Ideas I was a metaphysical realism or an idealism came to the fore almost immediately upon its publication. The present essay is an examination of the relation ...
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Nikolai S. Plotnikov and Nadezhda P. Podzemskaia (eds.): Iskusstvo kak iazyk – iazyki iskusstva. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2017. ISBN 978-5-4448-0664-7 (т. I); ISBN 978-5-4448-0665-4 (т. II)
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Flacius [and Biblical Hermeneutics in the Renaissance]
The inadequacy of ambiguous theories of interpretation left the door open for arbitrary interpretations of a text. During the Reformation, hermeneutics became a vital topic for theology. Varying and conflictin...
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The Contemporary Situation
Shpet in this chapter presents his view that philosophical problems of knowledge as elucidated particularly in neo-Kantian tracts are not just incomplete and one-sided, but simply wrong. They are ignorant of t...
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Ernesti [and Ast: The Reorientation of Hermeneutics from Theology Toward Philology]
Although a largely unoriginal thinker, Ernesti, a rationalist, offered an interpretation of Scripture freed from Church dogma and the instability of common sense. With him, hermeneutics centered on philology r...
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Introduction
Here at the outset, we review Solov’ëv’s early works together with, in particular, his concept of the all-unity, which he developed therein. Whereas a religious, if not mystical, interpretation of it is natura...
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[Hermeneutics After Schleiermacher]
The distinctions Schleiermacher drew fundamentally determined the subsequent path of hermeneutics, but the absence of a basis for his ideas did not allow for their further deepening or development. In this cha...
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On Free Will
In this chapter, we look at the position of various representatives of Russian Orthodoxy on the traditional philosophical issue of free will versus determinism and the rise of interest in it among psychologist...
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[Dilthey’s Development of Hermeneutics]
The second half of the nineteenth century saw a lively interest in the “historical problem.” Shpet here turns to the role of hermeneutics in the ongoing elaborations of the methodology of historical knowledge....
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On Contemporaries and Contemporaneous Movements
We look in this chapter at Solov’ëv’s confrontation during the last decade of his life with recent contemporary philosophies, including Comte’s positivism. While highly critical of it, he came at the end to an...
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Critics Arise and Dismissed, Love Affirmed
The Justification’s final chapter presents Solov’ëv’s vision of the moral ideal, which can and will be realized in accordance with the Christian ideal of a Kingdom on God on Earth. In addition to summarizing that...
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The Start of the “Moral Philosophy” and Its Historical Context
At some indeterminate time but before late 1894 Solov’ëv abandoned the idea of preparing a second edition of his Critique of Abstract Principles and started work on an entirely new ethical treatise that would ref...
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Death and Legacy
Solov’ëv’s health deteriorated rapidly in the summer of 1900, and his premature death surprised his friends. The many obituaries in the press that stemmed from extra-philosophical communities were full of prai...
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Morality vis-à-vis Law, Economics, and War
In this chapter, we look first at several prominent nineteenth-century Russian legal philosophies including those of Shershenevich and Chicherin, with whom Solov’ëv would squabble in conjunction with their opi...
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[Origin of the Idea and of the Methods of Hermeneutics]
Shpet here introduces the theme of his text, which is to understand the role of the “word,” broadly understood to include even whole passages of text. Questions concerning hermeneutics arose historically from ...
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General Remarks on the Relation of the Sciences [to Hermeneutics] as a Transition to Ernesti
Up to this historical period, hermeneutics had developed blindly without an awareness of its theoretical value. Practical interests stood in the foreground by those who thought about the problems associated wi...
