La hermenéutica y su camino histórico hacia una hermenéutica analógica

Abstract

The author tries to present the potential relationship between Hans-Georg Gadamer’s analogic and ontological hermeneutics. Analogic hermeneutics
attempts to avoid not only the univocalism of some interpretative theories but also, and above all, the equivocalism of many postmodern hermeneutics. To link this with Gadamer, one must appeal to Aristotle’s notion of phrónesis. A notion so close to this thinker that it can be considered the schemata of interpretation and thus, of hermeneutics. Phrónesis, for Aristotle, is nothing but the sense of proportion – translated into Greek as analogy. Since phrónesis is the structure of hermeneutics and since phrónesis is analogical, that is, analogy put into practice or live analogy; analogic hermeneutics is deemed perfectly valid in Aristotle’s and Gadamer’s line.