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Hans-Georg Gadamer, a notable German philosopher of the 20th century, was born in Manuburg, in 1900 and died in 2002 at the age of 102 years. He completed his education at Breslau and Marburg, while his companions were Richard Hoenigswald, Nicolai Hartmann and Paul Natorp. He completed his graduation in 1922 by writing a thesis on "The essence of pleasure and dialogue in Plato". Hans-Georg Gadamer was introduced to Husserl and Heidegger at Freiberg in 1923. It was in 1937, that he assumed the post of a professor of philosophy and after 2 years he took on the role of a professor at the University of Leipzig, where he was made the rector in 1946. Next he moved on to teach at Frankfurt in 1947 and then at Heidelberg. He also had the privilege of teaching in numerous universities across the world, which also included the USA. Gadamer is greatly recalled for his excellent work on 'philosophical hermeneutics', which is exemplified completely in his great work of art "Truth and Method". In the book Hans-Georg Gadamer stresses how human beings live in the world and understand everything.
Works of Hans-Georg Gadamer
- Some of the greatest works of Hans-Georg Gadamer are
- Reason in the Age of Science
- Philosophical Hermeneutics
- Hegel's Dialectic
- Philosophical Apprenticeships
- Dialogue and Dialectic
- The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays
- Truth and Method
- Plato's Dialectical Ethics
- Literature and Philosophy in Dialogue
- Heidegger's Ways
- The Enigma of Health
