concepts are considered as the tools of political analysis, and without recognition of the concepts, particularly the concept of state, there is no possibility for us to have knowledge of the world of politics. parallel to the external developments, concepts are also growing fatter and more dynamic in modern age. this development may be explained through two approaches: approach of interpretive...

In the field of information systems (IS), ‘information’ is probably the most important and fundamental notion. And yet, existing studies of it seem inadequate and lacking of sufficient depth, and further work is therefore desperately in need. We adopt Hermeneutics to approach the essence of information. We describe how Hermeneutics might enable us to look at the mechanism whereby information is...

This paper is targeted primarily at doctoral students and others considering hermeneutics as a research strategy. Research using hermeneutics was carried out with occupational therapy educators and clinicians in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the UK. A total of 53 participants engaged in focus groups and individual interviews over a one-year. The paper explores hermeneutics as a credible, ...

With their focus on documents, interpretation and intersubjectivity, Web 2.0 technologies have surprising analogies with philosophical hermeneutics, including the theory of text interpretation. Philosophical hermeneutics was generalised from Biblical hermeneutics by Dilthey in the 19th century and chosen as an alternative to positivism as a foundation for the epistemology and methodology of the...

This paper examines the concept of God in traditional Igbo-African religious thought, prior to advent Western religion, with a view showing that idea God/Deity who is supreme every area life and sphere influence “creates out nothing,” like Christian or missionaries, unrecognized thought. Even though Igbo conceive strong powerful deities can only reign within their respective where they are char...

The foregoing quote by Haddon Robinson, a preacher and professor of preaching, underscores the necessary relationship between hermeneutics and homiletics. It is a relationship also recognized by others outside the area of sermon preparation and delivery. For instance, David Dockery comments: “Our understanding of hermeneutics, or the task of interpretation, focuses on discovering the historical...

From the Gadamerian hermeneutics we expose a way of understanding tradition, mainly when it acquires textual form, addressing in which text is possible by different mediations. Translation as mediation understood an appropriation, since not mere passage from one language to another, but task carried out translator where his or her already involved. This relevant because allows raise questions f...