This project wants to proof, that the thoughts about the Middle Way of Gadamer and Nagarjuna are very similar. Doubtless to say, that Gadamer partly founds his philosophical hermeneutics on Hegel's dialectic, when he thought: the things change themselves slowly all the time, but they are still the same; and even though they appear to be the same, they always become different. We are certain, that this point is not only shown clearly in Gadamer's, but also in Hegel's and Nagarjuna's thoughts. If Gadamer explains through the history-effective consciousness and the fusion of horizons the relation between tradition and contemporary, he only wants to show, that the relation between things is not absolut identical and not absolut different, otherwise man does not simultaneoulsy pay attention to the relative difference and relative identity of things. If Gadamer's hermeneutic emphasises this point, then we can say, that this is a warning of dialectic against all the prejudice of the dualism.
