Eugenio Coseriu and the Hermeneutical Principle of Trust
Eugenio Coseriu and the Hermeneutical Principle of Trust

Summary/Abstract: My article aims at presenting a hermeneutical principle – the principle of trust – which guided Eugenio Coseriu in his activity as an interpreter of philosophical and scientific texts. In the studies of hermeneutics, such a principle can be found under different names: the principle of charity, the principle of equity, etc. What I want to demonstrate here is that, according to Coseriu’s conception (based on a solid philosophy of language), the principle of trust goes beyond the sphere of hermeneutics proper, characterizing the whole human communication, thus being crucial for any normal act of concrete communication. Consequently, such a principle does not only belong to hermeneutics, but also to the very deontology of language.

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