Hermaneutics OR Re: [at-l] On Topic, for a Change---

[jbullar1 at twcny.rr.com (Jim Bullard)]

At 02:57 PM 10/8/2003 +0100, David Addleton wrote:
> >> Leslie Booher wrote:
>I saw this in a catalog today, and I want to
>know what some of you think of it.
>Do not follow where the path may lead.
>Go instead where there is no path and leave a 
>trail.
>Ralph Waldo Emerson
>
>what a nice little lesson in hermaneutics and the consequences to readers 
>who live in a different time, if not place, from the author ... and also 
>of the consequences of an a priori investment of such authority in 
>antiquity or origin that one can no longer account for different times, 
>cultures, and places when interpreting ... without a doubt a failure to 
>recognize these realities underlies many a theological, moral, 
>constitutional, legal, and Appalachian Trail related dispute ...

ROTFLMAO