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The challenge of ontology in interpretationalism

From the book Abel im Dialog

  • Luis Eduardo Gama Barbosa

Abstract

This article reviews Günter Abel’s interpretationalistic philosophy based on two blind spots in his argument.What we are dealing with are two ontological problems, which concern the being-in-itself of interpretant human existence. We first look at the statute of Abel’s analysis which, without necessarily corresponding to the levels of interpretations identified by him, takes place as a realization of the interpretation revealed to itself as the articulating force of all reality. Secondly, we inquire into the human ability to observe the contingent of the constitutive axes of life, which Abel highlights not realizing that it is this that opens the doors to the possibility of the existence of an ontology of human finiteness. For this mobilization of interpretationalism towards ontology, we base ourselves on the doctrines of Nietzsche (genealogy and will to power) in which a reflection on interpretation acquires an ontological nature.

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