Philosophical Hermeneutics and Ontology

Philosophical Hermeneutics Hermeneutic Bioethics

Introduction If we were to acknowledge the interpretive character of our public debates over some of the issues that concern us, we would secure a firm foundation for a deliberative form of democracy. For we would then talk and listen to one another with mutual respect, not simply because political theorists encourage us to do so, but because we recognize the interpretive status of our own posi...

philosophical hermeneutics and epistemological foundations of history

the effective and efficient understanding of the past, which is useful for present time, will transform the history into a dynamic science when it becomes an essential concern for historians. history, as a science, is the result of historian’s insights and perceptions; and philosophical hermeneutics with emphasizing on ontology of understanding and especially on importance of interpretation, ha...

The Relevance of Philosophical Ontology

1 ARTIFICIAL COMPANIONS Ontology as a branch of philosophy is the science of what is, of the kinds and structures of objects, properties, events, processes and relations in every area of reality. The earliest use of the term ‘ontology’ (or ‘ontologia’) seems to have been in 1606 in the book Ogdoas Scholastica by the German Protestant scholastic Jacob Lorhard. For Lorhard, as for many subsequent...

The Subjectivity of Effective History and the Suppressed Husserlian Elements in Gadamerâ•Žs Philosophical Hermeneutics

Re-reading the Narrative in Ibrahim Sultan’s Shahnama Based on Paul Ricoeur`s Philosophical Hermeneutics Theory

A manuscript of Ibrahim Sultan`s Shahna­ma available at the Bodleian Library of Oxford, representing the full range of vi­sual features of the Shiraz School at the age of Ibrahim Sultan Timuri (817-838 AH) which has the symbolic aspects and semantic trends of painting and the po­tentiality to be interpreted based on phil­osophical hermeneutics. It seems that an­alyzing the visual element and re...