What's the difference between hermeneut and hermeneutics?

Hermeneut


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Rather than precipitately mediating between clinical hermeneutics and empirical nomology, a critical differentiation of both methodologies is advocated.
  • (2) This means that they must first have worked out a unified approach, a hermeneutic structure, with which to understand him.
  • (3) The problem of a hermeneutic psychiatry would be to steer between the Scylla of naive realism ignoring the major participation of the psychotherapist on the one hand, and the Charybdis of relativism, nihilism, and hopeless skepticism on the other.
  • (4) I further suggest that certain flaws in modern medicine arise from its refusal of a hermeneutic self-understanding.
  • (5) For the purposes of psychotherapists, the point of hermeneutics is that, in contrast to the natural sciences, it focusses away from the classical notion of the neutral independent observer (or subject or psychotherapist) as detached from the object of his or her study, the patient.
  • (6) These results indicate that the phenomenological and hermeneutic approaches should be supplemented with a "third person approach" in nursing science.
  • (7) An alternative approach is recommended that involves interpreting moral experience by means once associated with the rhetorical arts--practical reasoning, hermeneutics, casuistry, and thick description.
  • (8) The author opposes the two principal conceptions of interpretation: the deterministic conception predominant in Freud, in which the present is determined by the subject's actual past; and the creative hermeneutic conception, which traces its origins back not only to Heidegger and Ricoeur but also to Jung; in the latter view, interpretation cannot but be retroactive, assigning significance to a meaningless past.
  • (9) This paper describes a hermeneutical and phenomenological research study of the mid-life spiritual experience of 10 women who are members of the United Church of Canada.
  • (10) Attempts of mediation, be it from systemic-emergence-theoretical or from hermeneutic perspective of interaction forms and their interaction engrams corresponding to their central nervous substratum, turn out to be mystifications of actual incompatibilities, namely of the inevitably double discourse.
  • (11) The analysis of madness lays out hermeneutics of multiple levels through which the most profound and conflictive structures of our culture become visible.
  • (12) Each respondent was evaluated hermeneutically in a pastoral-clinical way, and the whole material was treated statistically.
  • (13) These models, health as a shared and communicable experience and health as a medical-physiological concept, provided a focus for hermeneutical understanding of the MHF information problem.
  • (14) The author investigates the significance of E. Bisers linguistic hermeneutics in their relevance for a medical and psychological anthropology.
  • (15) Data analysis was carried out according to the method of structural hermeneutics (Oevermann et al.
  • (16) The situation of the therapeut-patient interview is taken as unifying point of reference for a discussion of the relation between psychoanalysis and hermeneutics.
  • (17) Three trends within philosophy are delineated--positivism, hermeneutics, and a synthetic position.
  • (18) Hermeneutic methods were applied to the 174 interviews and 13 diaries collected.
  • (19) Besides, it embodies an unduly passive construal of the hermeneutic stance.
  • (20) At the conceptual as well as the practical level, modern medicine and its scientific foundations are hermeneutic enterprises.

Hermeneutics


Definition:

  • (n.) The science of interpretation and explanation; exegesis; esp., that branch of theology which defines the laws whereby the meaning of the Scriptures is to be ascertained.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Rather than precipitately mediating between clinical hermeneutics and empirical nomology, a critical differentiation of both methodologies is advocated.
  • (2) This means that they must first have worked out a unified approach, a hermeneutic structure, with which to understand him.
  • (3) The problem of a hermeneutic psychiatry would be to steer between the Scylla of naive realism ignoring the major participation of the psychotherapist on the one hand, and the Charybdis of relativism, nihilism, and hopeless skepticism on the other.
  • (4) I further suggest that certain flaws in modern medicine arise from its refusal of a hermeneutic self-understanding.
  • (5) For the purposes of psychotherapists, the point of hermeneutics is that, in contrast to the natural sciences, it focusses away from the classical notion of the neutral independent observer (or subject or psychotherapist) as detached from the object of his or her study, the patient.
  • (6) These results indicate that the phenomenological and hermeneutic approaches should be supplemented with a "third person approach" in nursing science.
  • (7) An alternative approach is recommended that involves interpreting moral experience by means once associated with the rhetorical arts--practical reasoning, hermeneutics, casuistry, and thick description.
  • (8) The author opposes the two principal conceptions of interpretation: the deterministic conception predominant in Freud, in which the present is determined by the subject's actual past; and the creative hermeneutic conception, which traces its origins back not only to Heidegger and Ricoeur but also to Jung; in the latter view, interpretation cannot but be retroactive, assigning significance to a meaningless past.
  • (9) This paper describes a hermeneutical and phenomenological research study of the mid-life spiritual experience of 10 women who are members of the United Church of Canada.
  • (10) Attempts of mediation, be it from systemic-emergence-theoretical or from hermeneutic perspective of interaction forms and their interaction engrams corresponding to their central nervous substratum, turn out to be mystifications of actual incompatibilities, namely of the inevitably double discourse.
  • (11) The analysis of madness lays out hermeneutics of multiple levels through which the most profound and conflictive structures of our culture become visible.
  • (12) Each respondent was evaluated hermeneutically in a pastoral-clinical way, and the whole material was treated statistically.
  • (13) These models, health as a shared and communicable experience and health as a medical-physiological concept, provided a focus for hermeneutical understanding of the MHF information problem.
  • (14) The author investigates the significance of E. Bisers linguistic hermeneutics in their relevance for a medical and psychological anthropology.
  • (15) Data analysis was carried out according to the method of structural hermeneutics (Oevermann et al.
  • (16) The situation of the therapeut-patient interview is taken as unifying point of reference for a discussion of the relation between psychoanalysis and hermeneutics.
  • (17) Three trends within philosophy are delineated--positivism, hermeneutics, and a synthetic position.
  • (18) Hermeneutic methods were applied to the 174 interviews and 13 diaries collected.
  • (19) Besides, it embodies an unduly passive construal of the hermeneutic stance.
  • (20) At the conceptual as well as the practical level, modern medicine and its scientific foundations are hermeneutic enterprises.