Hermeneutics

The term hermneutics covers

(A) Understanding Text

(B) Interpretation of Text

(C) Both (A) & (B)

Hermeneutic humanism was

subscribed by

(A) Heidegger

(B) Gadamer

(C) Ronald Barthes

(D) Richard Rorty

According to whom Hermeneutics is

an Ontology ?

(A) Heidegger

(B) Schleiermacher

(C) Ranke

(D) Dilthey

Which one of the following contributes

to critical hermeneutics ?

(A) Heidegger

(B) Habbermas

(C) Richard Rorty

(D) Gadamer

Which of the philosophers given

below made a distinction between

grammatical interpretation and

psychological interpretation ?

(A) Dilthey

(B) Heidegger

(C) Schleiermacher

(D) Gadamer

The view that - hermeneutics should confine itself to the epistemological problems of

interpretation and not try to engage with the deepest conditions of human existence - held

by:

(1) Paul Ricoeur . Emilio Betti (3) Habermors (4) Derrida

Who among the following has maintained a distinction between grammatical interpretation

and psychological interpretation ?

(1) Wilhelm Dilthey . Friedrich Schleiermacher

(3) Gadamer (4) Heidegger

Language is our second nature; it is through language that the world is opened up for us - is the

philosophical position of which one of the following Hermeneutic thinkers ?

(1) Schleiermacher (2) Dilthey . Gadamer (4) Heidegger

Ontological turn is Hermeneutics is contributed by which one of the following philosophers ?

. Martin Heidegger (2) Ricoeur (3) Derrida (4) Habermas

Which one of the following Hermeneutic thinkers attempted to reconcile ontological hermeneutics

with critical hermeneutics ?

(1) Gadamer (2) Derrida . Ricoeur (4) Habermas

Consider the following pairs with reference to Hermeneutics and mark the correct code ;

(i) Friedrich Schleiermacher Romantic Hermeneutics

(ii) Heidegger Radical Hermeneutics

(iii) Derrida Hermeneutics phenomenology

Codes :

(1) Only (i) is correctly matched.

Hermeneutic circle, according to Gadamer, refers to

(1) Co-determination of text and reader

(2) Co-determination of text and author

(3) Co-determination of text and context

(4) Co-determination of author and reader

Schleiermachers theory of Hermeneutics

and mark the correct code :

(i) Problem of interpretation is the problem of understanding.

(ii) Hermeneutics is an art of avoiding misunderstanding.

(iii) Extended the domain of hermeneutics from deciphering sacred texts to all human

texts and modes communication.

All

Distinction between grammatical interpretation and psychyological interpretation is

advocated by :

(1) Heidegger (2) Dilthey

(3) Schleiermacher (4) Gadamer

Hermeneutic consistency refers to

(1) the analysis of texts to achieve incoherent explanation of them.

(2) the criticism of texts to achieve consistency in them.

 (3) the analysis of texts to achieve a coherent explanation of them.

(4) interpreting texts in a consistant way.

Understanding is not a process of reconstructing the state of mind of the author, but one

of articulating what is expressed in his work is the view held by :

(1) Gadamer (2) Habermas

(3) Dilthey (4) Heidegger