Abstract
This article aims at presenting pre-understanding as an enabling condition for understanding in opposition to Barth’s opinion that pre-understanding is a limiting condition. It will discuss the productive role of pre-understanding in Heidegger’s phenomenological hermeneutics. This article will pay attention to the prologue in Heidegger’s Being and Time, because the productive role of pre-understanding is revealed in the process of Heidegger’s deconstruction of the traditional ontology in order to overcome the classical question of being. The productive role of pre-understanding will be revealed in Heidegger’s ontological endeavor of ensuring a correct question after deconstructing a traditional ontology, and in addition the point will be made that a correct pre-understanding is required as a horizon of interpretation to understand a text objectively. In conclusion, this article lays stress on the importance of ensuring a correct pre-understanding in a theological hermeneutics through Bultmann’s hermeneutics.
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