Hume, Hermeneutics, and History

A "Sympathetic" Account

Bibliographic Data

ID4496751
AuthorsJames Farr (0000-0002-6226-5341, corresponding author)
Year1978
Volume17
Issue3
Pages285
Publication date1978-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistory and Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0018-2656 • E-ISSN: 1468-2303
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2504741
OpenAlexW2326746048
LanguageEN
Citations received8

It has been observed that Hume is the hero of analytic philosophy in its phase, Kant the hero of analytic philosophy in its ordinarylanguage and hermeneutic phase. I The soundness of this observation rests upon the standard positivist interpretation of Hume's philosophy. But Hume's philosophy harbors a systematic ambivalence which emerges most clearly in his account of the methodology of history and the moral sciences. Indeed it can be argued that Hume anticipated a hermeneutic or interpretative philosophy based upon a methodological appropriation of his principle of sympathy Hume's eighteenth-century prototype of lverstehen. I am not suggesting that Kant is any less the hero of analytic philosophy in its later interpretative phase, but that Hume is rather more heroic than the standard interpretation allows

Art · Epistemology · Hermeneutics · Literature · History · Indian History and Philosophy · Philosophy · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought

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