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Hermeneutic Research: An Experiential Method presents a method to
investigate lived experiences. In doing so, this book integrates a
broad range of philosophical topics, such as hermeneutics, the
philosophy of consciousness, and the philosophy of being. We are
conscious beings. Through every act of consciousness, something is
presented to the experiencing person. Something-a theme-stands in
the focus of attention. Within the dimensional human consciousness,
this theme is related to other thoughts, a process that includes
certain aspects of the theme and excludes others from conscious
experience. The foundational conviction of the experiential method
detailed in this book is that thought is not static in its ultimate
nature but organically dynamic. Thought uncovers its internal
endlessness through time as its medium, just as the small seed
uncovers the unity of a tree through soil as its medium. Thought,
as a dynamic self-revealing phenomenon, uncovers itself as a series
of understandings that cannot be interpreted except through
reciprocal reference. Meaningfulness, therefore, is not contained
in self-identity but in the larger whole in which it is a specific
part. Wholeness contains possibilities of knowledge as present
realities revealing themselves, through human choices and
experiences, in temporal progression to reach a unity that is
already contained in them. This infinite movement of knowledge thus
reveals the possibility intrinsic to finite thought. Intuition, as
wholistic apprehension, is movement that could acknowledge and
reach an immanent infinite, of which the finite concepts of
comprehension and cognition are only momentums.
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