Abstract Hans‐Georg Gadamer (1900–2002) is the founder of modern‐day philosophical hermeneutics. His relevance for ethics lies mainly in the fact that he relied on Aristotle's notion of phronesis (practical wisdom, prudence) to describe the hermeneutic experience of understanding and in his strong defense of Aristotle's conception of ethics, with its insistence on custom shaped by education and tradition, which helped usher in a rehabilitation of a practical philosophy that does not follow the Kantian model of a universalistic, normative ethics.
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