Hermeneutics

The ecstatic tenor of Khunrath s rhetoric is itself perhaps modelled on the spiritus rhetoricus of Erasmus early hermeneutics in which he had explored the spiritual sense of a text as being a force of divine grace that could spontaneously transform the reader. It was the personal experience of the sense of scripture that Erasmus had favoured in the Enchiridion Hence, also the outcries of Hallelujah and Lob Herr that punctuate, or conclude, Khunrath s writings. 

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Merkur, Daniel. The study of spiritual alchemy mysticism, gold-making and hermeneutics. Ambix 37, no. 1 (Mar 1990) 35-45. 

Niculescu, Luminita I. "From hermeticism to hermeneutics Alchemical metaphors in Renaissance literature." PhD thesis, Univ of California, Los Angeles, 1981. 

The theoretical framework for this study was the constructivist theory of knowledge, which holds that knowledge is created in the mind of the learner (73,14). The methodological framework was hermeneutical phenomenography. 

Hermeneutics is a field of study concerned with the interpretation of texts, either written or spoken (75). Within the context of educational research it has been defined as the process of providing a voice to individuals or groups of individuals who either cannot speak for themselves or are traditionally ignored (76). Patton (77) states that to make sense and interpret a text, it is important to know what the author wanted to communicate, to understand intended meanings, and to place documents in a historical and cultural context. ... 

Schleiermacher, E. D. Hermeneutics The Handwritten Manuscripts. Missoula, MN Scholars Press, 1997. 

This is really a version of the many worlds problem pointed out in the Introduction, which the hermeneutic and the Kuhnian notion of conceptual schemes had to face. If the world of our knowledge is constituted by conceptual schemes, and we cannot talk about the world as it is in itself, it becomes difficult to maintain that there is a single underlying world. 

The upshot is this. The argument from the hermeneutic use of the notion of conceptual scheme to relativism is wrong. The hermeneutic use of the notion in itself is completely innocuous. But it does have an element which may be misunderstood in a way that leads to relativistic conclusions. So the historical association of relativism and the hermeneutic use of the notion is not accidental. But it is grounded in serious mistakes. 

Hermes Trismegistus obviously possesses several of the essential attributes of this god Hermes mobility, mutability (eclecticism), discourse and interpretation (hermeneutics), the function of crossroads (tolerance, irenicism). Most important, it seems, is this role of the middle term, held by both figures Mercury holds the equilibrium between Apollo and Dionysus, while Trismegistus is... 

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