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is not a theorist of hermeneutics, is a historian. Addresses some of the hottest topics that still are being discussed. Is always guided by the concern of sense. Applied the notion of meaning in Western history.

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sense is the sense of things fit in the life of man. Z What is the interest in my life? How does this affect me? This is the notion of meaning. Wonder why things happen is to make sense.

discover in all events the fit of those things in human life is the search for meaning. While I do not know how Z affects me not find its meaning. Blumenberg wants to find meaning in the events he studies.

two variables are needed to ensure that there is a sense:

1. There is an autonomous reality (other) man that affects us.

2. A man there that these things affect you.

The man is constantly making sense of things, and is not a fad, is a vital necessity. In order to live must make sense of things around him. If you do not make sense of things the world would seem hostile. Making sense is a necessity for survival. The reality is very strong with respect man, the reality is operated independently of man. Hence the fear of man to reality. This he calls the "absolutism of reality." Man defends giving meaning to things, mainly through word of meaning creates a world where he feels protected. The word is a hut that protects man from the absolutism of reality. Man domesticates reality through language.

There are also two other ways of making sense of reality: the metaphor and myth. Metaphor

globally to see the realities. It is an ornament, because there are many metaphors that can be replaced by concepts then perform the same function. Nor are thoughts unclear. There are metaphors that can not be eradicated. The talk of absolute metaphors. Metaphors

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Those who speak of those things for which there is no response, broaden the knowledge and are therefore irreducible. The world and man is seen from these metaphors (the universe as a machine, the theater universe, the universe as a polis ...). The whole reality is from this perspective (machine, theater, polis ...). Such metaphors have five functions:

1. It is a resource that intellectuals resort to build concepts and is a source that provides answers to a number of problems they have.

2. They have an absolute value: how important is the role that these metaphors have in a given context.

3. Guide behavior, are prescriptions for behavior (If someone says, "this is confusing, confusing has to do with light, is a metaphor, and if a teacher tells you is to correct it.)

4. Expressed wishes.

5. Free man from fear of reality.

absolute metaphors are historical, some have lasted in history, others will be replaced (the world as a machine -> the world as a body).

Myth

is a universal phenomenon. It is also to guard against the absolutism of reality. Man invents things to protect themselves from this horror. The myth is a narrative that serves to block the ability to ask questions about reality and its terrible power, so what counts is a myth can not be proven. When myths can not stop the questions does not fit, it becomes a theology (dogmatic). Front

myth philosophy should ask the questions, but know that they have the answer. Philosophy does not give answers, ask questions.

Man invents science (modern) to find security within this arbitrary universe, to secure the man in reality. Modern science emerged after overcoming gnosticism. Gnosticism claimed that there were two creators, the good god and evil god (Satan). Each has developed its world. We live in a world of evil, ungodly, a world divided between the power of good god and the power of the evil god. In addition the world is perishable, will disappear. Blumenberg

say that all medieval theology against the Gnostics, but medieval theology was not able to overcome and that Gnosticism always resurfaced. He actually won with modern science. Science which were said modern laws, making predictions, science said to do or stop doing. Christianity, with all I had of Gnosticism, he backed out. The modern world is a secularization of Christianity, but the displacement of the religious world for vision science.

get this man, but no longer the center of the universe. This brings another source of fear. The stars are not signs and thus no longer have meaning. The knowledge brought about by lack of happiness. The knowledge and happiness are incompatible with this new concept. In Christianity, this did not happen. The world returns to work, no matter what you do. Science humble man. The man is a ridiculous thing, no matter how long it takes on the land, the land was there long before.

Blumenberg The remedy proposed is to be modest, find specific ways. attaches great importance to everyday life. We must put aside the idea of \u200b\u200b"absolute sense", there is only partial meanings. Reviews

Blumenberg press the point that science has created sense. This is wrong, science does create meaning. For example, the theory of evolution that is saying is that humans are living creatures and you have to cultivate the biological. Science does not merely describe, it creates meaning. Even with the heliocentric meaning is created, tell the man that is not the center of the universe is one way.