A INTERPRETAÇÃO RICOEURIANA DA HERMENÊUTICA FILOSÓFICA DE MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Abstract

This paper aims to present the Ricoeurian reading of the philosophical hermeneutics developed by Martin Heidegger, who is regarded as the philosopher who performed the radical hermeneutic movement from epistemology to ontology. According to Ricoeur, the fundamental question put forth by Heidegger’s thought is about the sense of being. By discussing this subject, the German thinker changes and revolutionizes the theory of knowledge, dealing with an interrogation that precedes the theory itself and intends to embrace the way in which a being encounters the being, even before opposing it as an object facing a subject. Thus, the question of the world takes the place of the question of others. By mundanizing understanding, Heidegger depsychologizes it. In Heidegger, the primacy of the hermeneutic question is the understanding that hermeneutics can’t be seen as a reflection of the sciences of the spirit, but as an elucidation of the ontological ground upon which such sciences can be built. Therefore, following the development of Heidegger's thought, Ricoeur understands the abandonment of Dasein and points to the projection of epistemology subordinated to ontology.