I'm liking Gadamer, so a new series of quotations ripped out of context seems appropriate:
"To be situated within a tradition does not limit the freedom of knowledge, but makes it possible"- Truth and Method (2nd rev'd ed, 2004), p. 354
Pure objectivity is an absurd abstraction. It is not the uninvolved who comes to knowledge; rather, interest itself is a requirement for the possibility of coming to know.from "Biblical Interpretation in Crisis: The 1988 Erasmus Lecture"
Here, then, is the question: how does one come to be interested, not so that the self drowns out the voice of the other, but in such a way that one develops a kind of inner understanding for things of the past, and ears to listen to the word they speak to us today?
