Wilhelm Von Humboldt jako prekursor antropologii hermeneutycznej (Wilhelm Von Humboldt as a precursor of the hermeneutical anthropology)

Abstract

The aim of the text is to show the affinities between the ideas of Wilhelm von Humboldt and the hermeneutical philosophy, especially those elaborated by H.-G. Gadamer. To accomplish it it develops a special perspective of comparison that goes beyond the philosophy of language, reaching not only the moral-ontological but also the aesthetical foundations of philosophy. The acceptance of the otherness of the others is both of them a pre-form of philosophical anthropology and is connected by both of them with the tradition of dialogical thinking (which in case of von Humboldt goes back to the so-called dialogical principle of Jacobi and in case of Gadamer – to the inspiration gained by Ebner, Rosenzweig and Levinas).

Keywords

• anthropology
• hermeneutics
• philosophy of language
• aesthetics
• ethics