The Intentions of Axiological Interpreters
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https://doi.org/10.67945/jfa.v7i.120Keywords:
hermeneutics, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Hartman Value Profile, phenomenologyAbstract
Something is generally missing from our practice of interpreting the Hartman Value Profile. What is missing is acknowledgement of the prejudices we bring to the very act of interpretation. In this essay, I seek to build upon C. Stephen Byrum’s description of axiological hermeneutics by proposing that we follow Hans-Georg Gadamer’s advice and acknowledge our own mental horizons. We can do this by foregrounding the prejudices inherent in our intentions as we practice this work of interpreting profiles. I describe four prejudices that are inherent in the intentions of axiological practitioners and one prejudice that is inherent in our own value structures. I call on us all to become deliberately aware of the limitations in each of those prejudices as we do our work. By situating this recommendation within recent discourses regarding the phenomenological turn in hermeneutics, I conclude by positing that this practice suffices to explain the same phenomena that Doug Lawrence described as being a fourth dimension of axiology (2013, 39-54).References
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