The research aims to describe the methodology of hermeneutics Wilhelm Dilthey in understanding text. was a philosopher who played an important role developing as scientific methodology. study used library which guides hermeneutic books and other documents that give explanations their thinking. This also historical-philosophical approach content analysis. results this indicate thought has three ...

This paper examines what an understanding of some of the key characteristics of computer games can contribute to design. Drawing on insights from Freud, hermeneutical theorists, and games themselves, we focus on repetition, its variation, and the matter of the ethical in computer games. The essay is concerned less with resolving the ethical questions posed than showing that the ethical also suc...

The author’s intent in this paper is to discuss new methods for conducting research on and connecting the works of chaos and complexity theorists with interpretive, hermeneutical, and phenomenological theorists as a multiple-method mode of inquiry. He proposes a methodological design that incorporates a recursive process of phenomenological reduction to find connectedness and generate shared me...

Spiritual fulfillment in the professional role of occupational therapy practitioner is hindered by the ethical consideration of maintaining an objective client-therapist relationship. Objectivity is a disengaged perspective that depersonalizes human relationships. It operates on the tacitly performed, reductionistic assumption that all truth can be structurally represented and verified. However...

This study describes a phenomenological hermeneutical method for interpreting interview texts inspired by the theory of interpretation presented by Paul Ricoeur. Narrative interviews are transcribed. A naïve understanding of the text is formulated from an initial reading. The text is then divided into meaning units that are condensed and abstracted to form sub-themes, themes and possibly main t...

In this theoretical paper with a clinical focus, three different meanings of depression in schizophrenia spectrum patients - depression as a reaction to schizophrenia, as an integral part of it, and as an independent disorder - are exposed and discussed from a phenomenological point of view. A well-reflected schizophrenia patient is briefly introduced in order to illustrate the clinical relevan...

The immune self is our reified way to describe the processes through which the immune system maintains the differentiated identity of the organism and itself. This is an interpretative process, and to study it in a scientifically constructive way we should merge a long hermeneutical tradition asking questions about the nature of interpretation, together with modern understanding of the immune s...

Considering how much work has gone into the study of diagrams in architecture, the place of diagrams within architectural theory and practice still remains somewhat allusive. After all what relation do they have to sketches, plans or elevations? Or is it not so much the single diagram but the linkages that they engender, linkages that mark the teleological nature of architecture itself? Is it n...