Foresight Validity Boundaries In The Perspective Of Historical Materialism

With the wide spread and in-depth development of Gadamer’s Hermeneutics,His theory of prejudice gradually aroused the discussion in the philosophical circle.Gadamer believes that theory of prejudice is an indispensable condition,it’s"Vorverstandis" to understand of history,any comprehension can’t proceed without prejudice,so the prejudice becomes an everlasting being.Following the path of Gadamer’s Hermeneutics,subsequent scholars have invariably revered the theory of prejudice,their methods of work led to the theory of prejudice always at the level of being interpreted and applied,and on the contrary,few people have reflected on it.There is no doubt that acknowledge the existence of prejudice in the process of cognition.But it’s worth thinking about whether the prejudice persists and works.In order to clarify the scope of application of prejudice and optimize the Hermeneutics Theories.It is necessary to explore the validity boundary of prejudice based on the horizon of historical materialism.Social history is the unity of continuity and discontinuity,and the appearance of prejudice is based on the continuity of social history.Its essence embodies in depending on the historical continuity.Besides,the essence of prejudice also embodies in spirituality,posteriority and relative validity.So,the essence of prejudice is multiple.This makes it inevitable that it cannot be a condition of comprehension.Because it belongs to the social existence as well as it needs to be explained and explained.The essence of prejudice decide that it also has the characteristics of discontinuity and provisionality.The validity of prejudice is influenced by social history.When social history is characterized by discontinuity,the prejudice and the interpreted text belong to different situation.That is,the prejudice and the interpreted text are divided into different productive eras,lifestyles,cultural traditions and practical environments.At this moment,the interpretation has no prejudice.Even though exist the prejudice to interpret text,prejudice can also lose efficacy due to its validity is passivity,practical selectivity,historicity and obstinacy.All sorts of arguments justified that prejudice is no universal validity.Therefore,all comprehensions and knowledge cannot rely on the prejudice.the interpreter also has a situation that not rely on the prejudice in the process of interpretation,if hermeneutics ignores this situation and insists on the fundamental role of prejudice in interpreting texts,it will lead to the incompleteness of hermeneutics.Exploring the validity boundary of prejudice based on the horizon of historical materialism,the result is that prejudice is not a condition of comprehension because of its the characteristics of discontinuity and provisionality.So,the real comprehension should start from the practice,only in this way can the truth of the interpreted text gradually appears.Meaning is the key to the problem.Since hermeneutics is based on the persistence of prejudice,and it has such characteristics that led to it doesn’t support the whole hermeneutic framework.While at this time,hermeneutics would be gotten in to trouble and ultimately hindering the development of hermeneutics if it relied solely on the prejudice to interpret text.Therefore,the exploration of the validity boundary of prejudice based on the horizon of historical materialism is of great contribution to the hermeneutics’historical foundation,theoretical framework,interpretive principle,and improvement of the validity of hermeneutics.Hermeneutics is a very complicated subject and There are intricate relationships involved.It plays an important role not only in the field of philosophy,but also in the field of art and linguistics.So,it is a difficult task to explore the theory of prejudice in hermeneutics,especially to criticize and reflect on it.But endless thinking and argument,criticism and reflection are the main force of philosophical progress.