Hermaneutics

Hermaneutics is the art and science of text interpretation. It was a practice used for interpretating the bible, but it's used in communications as well. There are 4 types of hermaneutics that deal with the bible. There is literal, moral, allegorical , and anagogical or mystical. Natural, Normative, Scientific, Philosophical, and Depth Hermaneutics deal with communications. Natural Hermaneutics is the spontaneous, everyday, usually unreflective interpreting we do when intersubjective understanding breaks down. The local news tells us about the events of everyday. We get an understanding about what happens around us by the news. Normative Hermaneutics is the art of text interpretation as a deliberate discipline by a specialist caste. Judge Judy is an example of this. Lawyers, Judges, and Priests are part of this type of hermaneutics. Scientific Hermaneutics is the foundational discipline of the human or historical sciences. The History and Discovery Channels often explain these concepts. They talk about the history of the world. Philisophical Hermaneutics is a general philosophy of existence. Interpreting is less what we do and more what we are interpreters. Joel Osteen is an example of this. He preaches about the meaning of life. It's really hard to tell what the meaning of life really is. It takes a great deal of thought to know the meaning of life for each person. Depth Hermaneutic is suspicion. It's looking for the deeper meaning behind something. A crime investigation show is an example of this. They go over some of most shocking murders done by people like Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Gary Ridgeway, Charles Manson and other deadly killers. They discuss how these killers caused suspicion to authorities and their motive for their crimes