Hence the Truth, the Good, the Beautiful in them are not similar either. He believes in objective standards of judgment that are derived from sympathetic understanding of life and purposes of individual societies and are themselves objective historical structures that require wide and scrupulous scholarship. In a larger context both Habermas and Gadamer place Europe and its world role in its intellectual traditions fostering conversations among a variety of communities. Like Aristotle's practical philosophy, this type of hermeneutics is not just learning certain crafts and skills and mastering techniques but has to do with raising the awareness of each individual's due as a member of the society in an excellent manner. Interpretation refers not only to the explication of the actual intention of a difficult text.
Interpretation becomes an expression for getting behind the surface phenomena and data.
During the nineteenth-century this method was constantly compared with the methodology of the natural sciences. Its objects, the transmitted texts, were treated like the observational data in the scientific investigation of nature. Today we can also say the same about philosophy as well. Thus, again, to understand these expressions one has to recognize the historical, linguistic, and social circumstances of the people expressing those ideas. In writing about the future of the European humanities, Gadamer predicts a standard language for the natural sciences in the future.