Gerry: Please excuse this post if you already have received a previous
one. My machine has gone beserk!
John: Hmm... I know nothing of Hodder's Critical Hermeneutics. I know
of the
conventional Hermeneutical tradition coming through from the
Renaissance "re-discovery" of Hermes Trismagestus, but I presume you
are not talking of that. Please tell me more.
Gerry: From what I understand Hermes Trismagestus is (was) concerned
with Alchemy which has always been a scholarly pursuit although usually
rejected by the "scientist" types. Hodder has coined the term critical
hermeneutics and refers to an attempt to attain a simultaneous fusion
and separation of the present and the past. Whether this fusion and
separation is possible I'm not certain; however, I'm willing to give it
a try.
http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/jcma/papers/1986-ai-memo-871/section3_5.html
The above is a reference to critical hermeneutics. If you have any
further questions after you check it out, please get back to me.
John: Do you know of the approach of "multual co-arising" as seen within
General Systems Theory? This suggests that the oppositive sides on
such issues "mutually cause" each other. Thus Capitalism and Communism
are mutually co-arising approaches, created out of the experience of
19th century industrialisation. Is this what you mean?
Gerry: I'm very familiar with General Systems Theory and am in support
of a theory of everything. But until you mentioned "mutual co-arising"
I hadn't heard of it. But I like the idea that Capitalism and Communism
exist in a symbiotic relationship. And I do believe that this
interdependency is the melding that Hodder is calling for. Any ideas
how to begin melding?
Gerry
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