 The point de départ for Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics is the concern that the success of the scientific method has alienated us from the validity of the truth at issue in interpretive experience. Philosophical hermeneutics therefore begins with an attempt to recover the sense of truth at issue in interpretive experience by focusing our attention on motifs from the tradition of humanism and on the ontology of art. Gadamer’s considerations of motifs from the tradition of humanism are oriented by Weimar classicism and its legacy in nineteenth-century German intellectual life. His account helps us to recover the validity of an experience of truth that is not measured by scientific method but that, instead, depends on our education, grasped as formation (Bildung) through formal education and experience, as well as the concordant cultivation of capacities, such as common sense (sensus communis), judgment, and taste (Gadamer, Truth and Method, Part I.1.B).