%0 Journal Article
%T A Hermeneutical Approach to Political Responsibility: The Case of the Early History of Reception of the Apostle Paul¡¯s Paraenesis to the Romans
%A Victor Manuel Morales
%J Meta : Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology and Practical Philosophy
%D 2011
%I Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi
%X Understanding happens within the course of history and is made concrete within particular discourses. This insight into the structure of understanding is largely indebted to Gadamer¡¯s hermeneutical philosophy and was methodologically worked out by Jauss¡¯ aesthetics of reception. Concepts such as Wirkungs-geschichte and Rezeptionsgeschichte, account for the way in which understanding is embedded in texts, contexts, traditions which are appropriated in the life-world of historically conditioned readers and users. Any discussion on the meaning of responsibility must consider its history as portrayed in the texts where it features as subject-matter. The concept of responsibility will be discussed here within the particular case of the issue of political responsibility as featured in the early reception of Paul¡¯s paraenesis to the Romans.
%K understanding
%K meaning
%K history of reception
%K political responsibility
%K civil obedience
%K The Apostle Paul
%K Romans
%K paraenesis
%U http://www.metajournal.org//articles_pdf/484-501-victor-morales-meta-6-tehno.pdf