Consideration about the possibilities and limitations of a hermeneutical view of a human being will be prelude by an attempt of answering four fundamental questions: I shall disclose: 1. if the question itself is philosophically justifiable; 2. if hermeneutical philosophy is a monolitical stream of philosophy; 3. what can we expect from its research; 4. how it tries to accomplish these research. Talking about a hermeneutical view of a human being I mean to examin two main streams of

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... l philosophy: the classical one, estalblished by Dilthey and Heidegger, and the radical one, that takes inspiration not only from Heidegger, but also from thinkers who are not directly connected with the tradition of hermeneutics.