本課程之目標有三：
1. 使學生對詮釋學之問題意識及其重要理論流派有基本的認識。
2. 選讀詮釋學重要原典，藉以提升學生獨自閱讀哲學經典之能力。
3. 透過實作，使學生將所學的詮釋學理論運用到文本閱讀，以培養其融會理解能力。


本課程之內涵如下：
詮釋學最初源自於去理解他人所言之技藝。雖然詮釋學問題自古希臘時期起即已出現，但詮釋學的發展則是一直到史萊爾馬赫嘗試為其建立起一套一般性理論之後，才逐漸被哲學界所正視。現今詮釋學作為一門探究如何去理解文本、語言、甚至「理解」本身的哲學學科，在20世紀下半葉更被諸多學科所關注與爭議之焦點，而成為當代哲學思潮中的一個研究重點。
本課程為一學期之導論課程，旨在初步介紹現代詮釋學理論之發展，並僅以史萊爾馬赫（Schleiermacher）、狄爾泰（Dilthey）、海德格（Heidegger）及高達美（Gadamer）四位詮釋學思想經典人物為代表，概述其詮釋學思想以及彼此間之異同，以作為學生將來進一步了解當代詮釋學論爭之基礎。

The objectives of this course are threefold:
1. Provide students with a basic understanding of the problem awareness of hermeneutics and its important theoretical schools.
2. Select important original classics on hermeneutics to enhance students’ ability to read philosophical classics independently.
3. Through practice, students can apply the hermeneutic theory they have learned to text reading to cultivate their ability to integrate and understand.


The content of this course is as follows:
Hermeneutics originated from the art of understanding what others have said. Although the issue of hermeneutics has appeared since ancient Greece, the development of hermeneutics was not gradually taken seriously by the philosophical community until Schleiermacher tried to establish a general theory for it. Today, hermeneutics, as a philosophical discipline that explores how to understand text, language, and even "understanding" itself, has been the focus of attention and controversy in many disciplines in the second half of the 20th century, and has become a research focus in contemporary philosophical trends.
This course is a one-semester introductory course. It aims to provide a preliminary introduction to the development of modern hermeneutic theory. It only uses four classic figures of hermeneutic thought, Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger and Gadamer, as representatives to outline their hermeneutic thoughts and the similarities and differences between them, so as to serve as the basis for students to further understand contemporary hermeneutic debates in the future.

1. Palmer, R. E. Hermeneutics: Interpretation Theory in Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger, and Gadamer. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1969. （中譯：《詮釋學》，嚴平譯。初版四刷。台北：桂冠，2002；或《詮釋學》，潘德榮譯。北京：商務，2012。）
2. 其餘閱讀文本於課堂發放。

1. Palmer, R. E. Hermeneutics: Interpretation Theory in Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger, and Gadamer. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1969. (Chinese translation: "Hermeneutics", translated by Yan Ping. First edition in four editions. Taipei: Guiguan, 2002; or "Hermeneutics", translated by Pan Derong. Beijing: Commerce, 2012.)
2. The remaining reading texts will be distributed in class.