The aim of the text is to show the affinities between the ideas of Wilhelm von Humboldt and the hermeneutical philosophy, especially those elaborated by H.-G. Gadamer. To accomplish it it develops a special perspective of comparison that goes beyond the philosophy of language, reaching not only the moral-ontological but also the aesthetical foundations of philosophy. The acceptance of the otherness of the others is both of them a pre-form of philosophical anthropology and is connected by both

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... them with the tradition of dialogical thinking (which in case of von Humboldt goes back to the so-called dialogical principle of Jacobi and in case of Gadamer – to the inspiration gained by Ebner, Rosenzweig and Levinas).