ONTOLOGYCAL HERMENEUTICS: LIVED EXPERIENCE VS. METHODOLOGICAL TOOL

Abstract

The concern of this text relies on the ontological hermeneutics. This article will show that this hermeneutics does not limit its study scope to the comprehension of human actions, but widens it to the general understanding, which has as a starting point the relationship of human being with the world. This article starts with a brief historical retrieval of what philosophical hermeneutics has been, beginning with Dilthey. The main part of the text shows that hermeneutics, despite it is not a research method, it is the fundamental basis of any study about human actions. Finally, the text concludes that hermeneutics, based on Heidegger and Gadamer, is an experiential condition and not a methodological tool.