The Cambridge Companion to Hume's Treatise (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) by Donald C. Ainslie & Annemarie Butler

Author:Donald C. Ainslie & Annemarie Butler [Ainslie, Donald C. & Butler, Annemarie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-01-26T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

Farr is interested in a theory of signs as a feature of hermeneutics and argues that, although Hume’s position is ambiguous, he clearly at times regards signs as things in need of decoding and interpretation – not only in histories, but as they are presented in human actions. Farr cites the first Enquiry, in which Hume writes that “we mount up to the knowledge of men’s inclinations and motives, from their actions, expressions, and even gestures; and again, descend to the interpretation of their actions from our knowledge of their motives and inclinations” (EHU 8.9, SBN 84–85). I agree with Farr that we must often interpret the signs of actions and character and that Hume presents sympathy as the means of our acquiring skills in discerning and interpreting such signs. For another interesting hermeneutical approach to Hume’s account of sympathy, see Weinsheimer 1993. Although he argues against Farr’s particular interpretation of a hermeneutic Humean sympathy, Henrik Bohlin (2009) suggests that although there is some basis for placing Hume in the hermeneutic tradition of Schleiermacher and Dilthey, Hume does not develop his hermeneutics sufficiently.

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