Basic Problems in Hermeneutics: Interpreting Text, Image, Music, and World

Philosophy, Art, Society

"Life has inherent meaning, but no inherent meaningfulness. The first is given it by virtue of all that had to occur in order for such a life to begin, exist, and itself pass onward. That I exist means all the rest of it; history, discourse, consciousness, evolution, creation and destruction alike. All of which is necessary to existence, and sufficient for its meaning to take hold. That said, at once we must make a distinction between meaning, all of which I inherit ...