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    The hermeneutical experience of truth is not a blind acceptance of the authority of tradition

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    • 1.Interpretive experience unfolds through the questioning of our prejudices
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    • 2.Interpretive experience involves judgment about which aspects of our prejudices remain valid and which have become invalid for matters of concern to us now
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    • 1.Gadamer's 'effective history' (Wirkungsgeschichte) constitutes the very horizon within which questioning occurs, making tradition structurally prior to critique.
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    • 2.A questioning that is itself shaped by tradition cannot serve as an independent standard for adjudicating which prejudices tradition validates.
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    • 1.Habermas argues that Gadamer's hermeneutics lacks reflexive access to systematically distorted communication produced by ideology and power.
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    • 2.Without a critical methodology external to tradition, the distinction between valid and invalid prejudices collapses into tradition's own self-legitimation.
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    Jacques Derridacontemporary
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    Leonard LawlorcontemporaryLawlor 2019
    Linda Martín AlcoffcontemporaryAlcoff 2006
    Luigi PareysoncontemporaryBenso, 2018
    Martin Heideggercontemporary
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    Paul Ricoeurcontemporary
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    G.W.F. Hegelmodern
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    Karl Marxmodern
    Martin HeideggermodernBeing and Time, § 27; Ontology, § 6
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    While the influence of Habermas’s objection is extensive, Gadamer has mounted rejoinders on behalf of his philosophical hermeneutics (see “Reply to My Critics”; see also “What is Practice? The Conditions of Social Reason”). The thrust of Gadamer’s argument is, first, that it is actually Habermas’s position, not his own, that remains uncritical, since it is naïve to believe in the possibility of a basis of critique that is somehow not subject to the authority of tradition. And, Gadamer stresses,
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