阿斯特的精神诠释学

Spiritual Hermeneutics of Ast

作为现代诠释学的先驱,阿斯特"精神诠释学"追随古代希腊精神,认为古代的精神是艺术与科学的修养之样式,是一般生活的典范,是生命本身的范式。因此,他构建的诠释学并不是追求字面意义,而是力图进入作品的内在精神世界,且对于文字的解释乃是基于对精神的理解的基础之上。文字、意义、精神被阿斯特视为解释的三要素,此三要素统一于被理解的文本之中。理解也被划分为三种,即:历史的理解、语法的理解、精神的理解,其中最重要的是精神的理解。在理解方法论上,阿斯特的一大贡献就是揭示了理解的循环性,将循环理解确立为诠释学方法的基本原则。

As a pioneer of modern hermeneutics,Ast followed the spirit of the ancient Greeks and regarded the ancient spirit no only as the cultural model of the Arts and Sciences,but also the example of a paradigmatic life,that is,the paradigm of life itself.Therefore,the hermeneutics he constructed is not to pursue the literal meaning of a text,but to try to enter the inner spiritual world of a text.According to Ast,the interpretation of words is based on the understanding of the spirit.Ast claims that words,meaning and spirit are three elements of interpretation,which are united in the texts to be understood.And also,there are three kinds of understanding-historical understanding,syntactic understanding and spiritual understanding.But above all,Ast＇s goal is the understanding of the spirit.In the methodology of understanding,one of Ast＇s contributions is revealing the cycle of understanding and establishing it as the fundamental principle of the hermeneutic method.