Hermeneutics and Dogmatic Reappropriation

The problem of interpretation is one of the original problems of man. Indeed, as men, we seek to understand the world and ourselves. Now, when we are confronted with this question of the truth of reality, we never start from scratch. The reality that we are trying to understand meets us concretely in the interpretation through the system of symbols of a given culture, which manifests itself especially in language. Human understanding is thus related to the history of the community. Thus, in order to interpret, one must also appropriate and understand the testimonies that the tradition has already given. The connection between interpretation and tradition makes it clear that we need to move away from a naive realism. In our knowledge, we are never dealing with reality in its nakedness, but always with reality in the cultural context of man, with its interpretation by tradition and its actual appropriation.