A life's work...

...Fulford: Hermeneutics is up for interpretation

Gadamer made it his mission to assert the uniqueness of human beings in the face of science’s attempts to put humanity in categories. He was suspicious of science all his life, beginning with his rebellion against his father, a famous chemist. Science, to achieve its aims, sets objectivity as a minimum standard. Gadamer considered objectivity dangerous, particularly when it developed into “value-free” forms of social science. We do not understand people, he argued, when we see them in a rigidly objective way. Their inner lives, never value free, are far richer than social science can know.