 Hermeneutics may be said to involve a positive attitude—at once epistemic, existential, and even ethical and political—toward the finitude of human understanding, that is, the fact that our understanding is time and again bested by the things we wish to grasp, that what we understand remains ineluctably incomplete, even partial, and open to further consideration. In hermeneutics, the concern is therefore not primarily to establish norms or methods which would purport to help us overcome or eradicate aspects of such finitude, but, instead, to recognize the consequences of our limits. Accordingly, hermeneutics affirms that we must remain ever vigilant about how common wisdom and prejudices inform—and can distort—our perception and judgment, that even the most established knowledge may be in need of reconsideration, and that this finitude of understanding is not simply a regrettable fact of the human condition but, more importantly, that this finitude is itself an important opening for the pursuit of new and different meaning. In view of this positive attitude toward the finitude of human understanding, it is no surprise that hermeneutics opposes foundationalism.