 That practical engagement is an essential element in Gadamer’s thinking implies that it cannot be seen to stand aside from questions of ethics. Gadamer never developed a book-length treatment that addresses such questions, but there is clearly an ethical current that runs throughout his thinking, and that is discernible, for instance, in his emphasis on the conversational character of hermeneutic engagement as well as his later reflections on the relation to the other (including on themes of friendship and solidarity) (see Gadamer 1999). It is also clearly evident in the engagement with Aristotle that runs throughout Gadamer’s work as well as his engagement with Plato (notably Gadamer, 1991). Despite the absence of a fully developed account, Gadamer has addressed the matter of ethics directly in, most notably, ‘On the Possibility of a Philosophical Ethics’ (Gadamer, 1999, pp. 18–36 and 2007, pp. 274–289), in which Gadamer argues against Kantian formalism in favor of a more Aristotelian approach. The issue of the ethical dimension in Gadamer’s thought and in hermeneutics more generally has also been taken up in the work of others (see especially Schmidt, 2015; George, 2020).