Delphic Podcast by Michael R D James
Jul 18, 2026 · 12 min · 10 segments
Heideggers account of the Being of our Human form of "Being-in-the-world", speaks of how entities are encountered in this world. Whilst engaged in our tasks these entities are not accessed via a…
Michael R. D. JamesHostIt is important to understand that Ricoeur's hermeneutics has its roots in Hegelian and French-German phenomenology, but nevertheless contains an awareness and tolerance of the analytical tradition we do not find elsewhere.
Hedegar's account of language also contains some analytical concerns and is rooted in a view which claims that the cultural impetus arising from ancient Greece including the work of Aristotle is rooted in what he refers to as a forgetfulness of being, although we should recall in the context of this discussion that it was Aristotle who, in correcting Plato, claimed that being has many meanings.
Hediger roots language in Dasein, a form of human psyche and he claims that meaning is an existential phenomenon already characterized, in which the formal framework of what can be disclosed in understanding and articulated in interpretation becomes visible.
Being and Time, Trans-McQuarrie and Robinson, Oxford, Blackwell, 1978, p199 Hedegaard does not in the sense embraced by analytical philosophers provide us with a theory of meaning but he does see an important relation to the action of assertion which he claims has three fundamental functions.
To point something out, to predicate something of something and to communicate this in the spirit of being together towards.
That which is put forward in the assertion is something which can be passed along in further retelling.
But at the same time, what has been pointed out may become veiled again in this further retelling.
It is important to understand that Ricoeur's hermeneutics has its roots in Hegelian and French-German phenomenology, but nevertheless contains an awareness and tolerance of the analytical tradition we do not find elsewhere.
Hedegar's account of language also contains some analytical concerns and is rooted in a view which claims that the cultural impetus arising from ancient Greece including the work of Aristotle is rooted in what he refers to as a forgetfulness of being, although we should recall in the context of this discussion that it was Aristotle who, in correcting Plato, claimed that being has many meanings.
Hediger roots language in Dasein, a form of human psyche and he claims that meaning is an existential phenomenon already characterized, in which the formal framework of what can be disclosed in understanding and articulated in interpretation becomes visible.
Being and Time, Trans-McQuarrie and Robinson, Oxford, Blackwell, 1978, p199 Hedegaard does not in the sense embraced by analytical philosophers provide us with a theory of meaning but he does see an important relation to the action of assertion which he claims has three fundamental functions.
To point something out, to predicate something of something and to communicate this in the spirit of being together towards.
That which is put forward in the assertion is something which can be passed along in further retelling.
But at the same time, what has been pointed out may become veiled again in this further retelling.
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