Epistemological status of hermeneutics: from message to digitality
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dialectics, digitality, epistemological status, hermeneuticsAbstract
Hermeneutics, in its conceptual development, has raised a series of meanings that have transcended the core of its original theme: the message. The concept has evolved from its initial meaning based on transmitting the message and contextualized within digitality in postmodernity. For this reason, the epistemological status of hermeneutics is presented: from the message to digitality as modes or perspectives through which this knowledge proceeds. The essay's main objective is to understand the epistemological status of hermeneutics from the perspectives of knowledge. In this sense, authors such as Schleiermacher (1768-1834), Dilthey (1833-1911), Heidegger (1899-1976), Gadamer (1900-2002), and Ricoeur (1913-2005), among others, are discussed. These authors address hermeneutical themes throughout history and their epistemological contributions, from its initial conception as the transmission of messages from the gods to the digital age, that is, the understanding of being in relation to technology. Specifically, in this study of hermeneutics and its epistemological status, a three-phase documentary research methodology was employed: review of bibliographic documents; selection of works; and hermeneutical analysis of the bibliographic works. In conclusion, the epistemological status reveals the scientific contributions of various authors at each historical moment, from the Greeks to the present day. That is to say, each stage has always yielded a contribution to the field of hermeneutics: mythological knowledge, conservative knowledge, scientific knowledge, romantic knowledge, ontological knowledge, dialectical knowledge, and digital knowledge.
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