First Philosophy
First Philosophy
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E14 Gadamer: Truth and Method
1 hour 18 minutes Posted Mar 9, 2026 at 3:00 am.
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Begin with philosophy here!

In the fourteenth episode Awee Prins continues our journey from Martin Heidegger to Hans-Georg Gadamer, tracing the shift from Heidegger’s analysis of technology as a way of revealing to Gadamer’s idea that we live within a fundamentally hermeneutic universe. If technology is not merely technological, then truth is not merely scientific.

Kas and Sonia push the discussion further by connecting these ideas to contemporary culture — from human resource management to historical interpretation — asking what it really means to say that we are always interpreting, always historically situated, and never outside perspective.

Let's begin, finally!