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Womb as Paradise Lost – Foetal Programming
Thetic Part 1 – Philosophical Introduction
1.5.1 The Whole in Relationship to its Parts
The circle now becomes clear in the light of our explanation: we can explain
each part in terms of the Whole and the Whole in terms of each part.
The circular process will now be explained with reference to Gadamer,
Heidegger's successor at the university of Heidelberg in Germany. 23
1.6 Spiralling Circle of Human Openness:
Hermeneutic circle in the philosophical hermeneutics of Gadamer
Gadamer extends the hermeneutics of Heidegger, endowing it, via a dissertation
on the revelation nature of an object of art and how one relates to a text, with a
new dimension. He criticizes Schleiermacher and Dilthey, and elevates hermeneutics
to “the arts of understanding” which touches every aspect of life.
1.6.1 The hermeneutic rule
The following proposition stems from classical rhetoric “dass man das
Ganze aus dem Einzelne und das Einzelne was dem Ganzen verstehen
müsse …” 24
“So läuft die Bewegung des Verstehens stets vom Ganzen zum Teil und
zurück zum Ganzen. Die Aufgabe ist, in konzentrischen Kreisen die Einheit
des Verstandenen Sinnes zu erweitern”. 25
The criterion for understanding properly also lies in its connection with the
Whole. There must be no contradiction between each part and the sum of all the
23 In France the hermeneutics has go a particular meaning by the works of Paul Ricoeur. The densitation of the language,
resulting into a phenomenon, asking for an adequately interpretation and the new task for hermeneutics as an epistemological
assigment, has been elaborated by Ricoeur in his essay’s collected in a the Dutch language titled Tekst en betekenis
(Tekst and Meaning), Baarn, 1991.
24 Gadamer, H.G. Wahrheit und Methode II, art. Vom Zirkel des Verstehens, 1959. Gesammelte Werke 2, Hermeneutik
II, page 57 ff.
25 Gadamer, H.G, op.cit. II page 58.