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Existentialism vs Hermeneutics - What's the difference?

existentialism | hermeneutics |

As nouns the difference between existentialism and hermeneutics

is that existentialism is a twentieth-century philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices while hermeneutics is the study or theory of the methodical interpretation of text, especially holy texts.

existentialism

Noun

(en noun)
  • (philosophy, not countable) A twentieth-century philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices.
  • The heyday of existentialism occurred in the mid-twentieth century.
  • (philosophy, countable) The philosophical views of a particular thinker associated with the existentialist movement.
  • Sartre's existentialism''' is atheistic, but the '''existentialism of Marcel is distinctly Christian.
  • * 1965 , Mikel Dufrenne, "Existentialism and Existentialisms," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research , vol 26 no 1 (Sep), p. 51.
  • Instead of Existentialism', we should speak of ' Existentialisms .

    Antonyms

    * noumenalism

    hermeneutics

    Noun

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  • The study or theory of the methodical interpretation of text, especially holy texts.
  • * 1885 , Thomas Seccombe, Saunders, Richard (1613-1687?)'', article in '' , Volume 50,
  • SAUNDERS or SANDERS, RICHARD (1613–1687?), astrologer, a native of Warwickshire, was born in 1613, commenced the study of hermeneutics about 1647, and practised astrology and cheiromancy during the golden age of the pseudo-sciences in England.
  • * 1885 , Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson (original translators and editors), Arthur Cleveland Coxe (editor of American edition), Philip Schaff (also credited as editor), ,
  • I have included in this volume the four books of St. Augustin On Christian Doctrine''. It is the first and best patristic work on biblical Hermeneutics''', and continued for a thousand years, together with the Prefaces of Jerome, to be the chief exegetical guide. Although it is superseded as a scientific work by modern ' Hermeneutics and Critical Introductions to the Old and New Testaments, it is not surpassed for originality, depth and spiritual insight.
  • * 1913 , Anthony John Maas, Hermeneutics'', article in '' ,
  • Usage has restricted the meaning of hermeneutics' to the science of Biblical exegesis, that is, to the collection of rules which govern the right interpretation of Sacred Scripture. Exegesis is therefore related to ' hermeneutics , as language is to grammar, or as reasoning is to logic.

    Derived terms

    * hermeneutical * hermeneuticist