Abstract

CONILL, Jesús. Experiencia hermenéutica de la alteridad. En-clav. pen [online]. 2008, vol.2, n.4, pp.47-66. ISSN 2594-1100.

Western philosophy originates from a double source: from the Greek knowledge as the "knowing of things", and from the roots of the Jewish existence and the human relation with "fellow man" or "the other" or the modes of personal existence. In both sources what is at stake are the diverse forms of existence: to live from nature or to live from the spirit. This work argues that Greek ontology is not enough either to unravel revelation or to understand the human being.With the path of St. Augustine, the opening to man to his personal intimacy constitutes a novel "metaphysical situation". Beginning with this new unfolding of being, the present work analyses an itinerary of the experience of alterity in modern thought (Smith, Kant, Hegel, Hobbes, Fichte, Marx) and of the hermeneutic experience of the recognition of alterity. Here, the author analyses, beyond their specific expositions and disagreements, the positions of Gadamer, Levinas and Ricoeur and the modalities of the hermeneutics of Jauss and Ruchlak; hence, the author shows how this arguments compliment and amplify each other. This gives space to come at new developments and findings from a perspective based on a historic-dialogical, original ethics and moral equality of the human experience of the "other".

Keywords : physical experience; Greek ontology; notion of "person"; truth as an "affectation of whole existence"; experiential thought; interiority of man; experience of alterity; hermeneutic experience of recognition.