Hacia un perspectivismo hermenéutico en Leibniz

Abstract

There is a long tradition of hermeneutic philosophers who have investigated Leibniz’s philosophy, and also several Leibnizian scholars who have dealt with Heideggerian thought. In this text we propose the thesis that there is a certain convergence between the hermeneutic conception of philosophy (M. Heidegger) and some of Leibniz’s ideas. The result is that there are at least three ideas that, in different formulations, are shared by both philosophers: 1) there is no pure knowledge, knowledge is always circumstantial. This is expressed by Heidegger in the notion of "hermeneutic situation" and by Leibniz with the concept of "notio completa". 2) Heidegger makes a "turn towards facticity" around the notion of "hermeneutic situation". Leibniz also makes a certain "turn towards facticity" concentrated on the notion of "corporeality". This element is not found in Heideggerian thought. 3) Understanding is also self-understanding. For Leibniz development is an unfolding and self-knowledge process of the monadic subject. For Heidegger understanding the world is also a process of self-knowledge of Dasein. Thus Leibniz outlines the "spirit" of hermeneutics in the sense that perspectivism is a form of interpretation.