For 10 points, name this late-18th and early-19th century German theologian and philosopher, often regarded as the father of hermeneutics.
This thinker's dialectic defines genuine knowledge to be not only a perfect correspondence with reality, but also universally agreed upon by all people, and therefore impossible. He rejected Kantian ethics, arguing for a morality that balances individual diversity of morals and commitment to the whole of humanity in his Soliloquies and in On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultural Despisers. He argued that different definitions of a word are interdependent due to the so-called unity of the word-sphere. His twin vocations can be seen in his Dialectic, or, The Art of Doing Philosophy and his Brief Outline for the Study of Theology. He argued that rules of interpretation must be universal across texts, must be non-linguistic, and must include interpretation based on the psychology of the author. For 10 points, name this late-18th and early-19th century German theologian and philosopher, often regarded as the father of hermeneutics.
This thinker's dialectic defines genuine knowledge to be not only a perfect correspondence with reality, but also universally agreed upon by all people, and therefore impossible.
Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher