Question

Which were the two concepts given by Johann Gottfried Herder?

Answer 1

Answer:

1. a conception that the central focus of the discipline should be psychology;
2. the principle of radical mental difference;
3. a conception that the fundamental goal of the discipline is understanding rather than explaining;
4. a hermeneutics based on the recognition of radical mental diversity;
5. an insistence on methodological empiricism in interpretation;
6. an insistence, in the spirit of his philosophy of language, on the fundamental role of language in culture;
7. an insistence on holism in interpretation;
8. a recommendation of participant-observation;
9. a certain distinctive concept of culture;
10. an insistence on the variability, relative appropriateness, and incommensurability of values;
11. a pluralist cosmopolitanism; and
12. an insistence that understanding other cultures also contributes to better self-understanding.