ABSTRACT
The history of philosophy is first of all a matter of interpreting texts. But texts, as we know, can be interpreted in a variety of ways. Since we like to call the art of interpretation hermeneutics, we may call this the problem of hermeneutic modes. The human body, like works of art, can express to our awareness unseen realities. In the arts, speech is a means of imitation, and the diction of a tragedy is the synthesis of the verses, or, if the distinction between verse and prose is inessential, the expression in language. Expression does not, so to speak, liberate meanings from the context of their origin into the public domain of the arts and sciences, but rather enables one individual outlook to become effective in influencing other individual outlooks. The expression signifies an objective or entitative reality, which becomes known to the mind as existing independently of it, in an objective perspective.
