HERMENUETICAL

PHENOMENOLGY
PREPARED BY: MICAH JOY BALAGAT
 Hermenuetic refers to the art of understanding and the
theory of interpretation while phenomenology means
the science of phenomena .
 Hermenuetics means’’ to interpret’’ and the term came
from the name hermes , the wing-footed messenger of
gods in greek mythology.
 Hermenuetics, therefore, means the process of making
the incomprehensible understandable.Meanwhile ,
phenomenology becomes hermeneutical when it method
takes an interpretive instead of solely descriptive
nature.
 Hermenuetics phenomenology

 Art of understanding and theory - the study of

of interpretation
 experience and
 how we experience.
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 Hermenuetical phenomenology emphasizes the
intructive facts and minor aspect with in experience
that are often taken for granted in everyday lives,
hoping to create meaning and obtain a sense of
understanding.
 Hermenuetic phenomenology concerns itself with
understanding and interpreting human experience as
it is lived, thus interpretation is seen critical to the
process of understanding.
Thinkers and their Contribution

MARTIN HEIDEGGER
 Heidegger focused on dasein or ‘ the mode of
being human’ or the authentics human being. The
hermeneutics of dasein is to highlight that he or
she is always found in a spatio- temporal context
with in which he or she lives.
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 HANS- GEORG GADAMER
 Gadamer believes that language is the wide
spread medium for understanding to happen and
understanding takes place in interpreting. He
considers interpretation as a ‘fusion of horizon’, a
dialectical interaction between the expectation of
the interpreter and the meaning of the text.
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