A Strauss note on Gadamer
on image and truth
Hans-Georg Gadamer, Wahrheit und Methode (1960), p. 133: “The representation remains a mere reflection of the original, as it appears to you in the representation. But it is more than a mere image—that the representation is an image does not mean it lacks reality, nor is it a mere hindrance to being; rather, it is fundamentally different from the image …