Interpretative Horizons Research Articles

Loneliness in medicine and relational ethics: A phenomenology of the physician-patient relationship

Loneliness in medicine is a serious problem not just for patients, for whom illness is intrinsically isolating, but also for physicians in the contemporary condition of medicine. We explore this problem by investigating the ideal physician-patient relationship, whose analogy with friendship has held enduring normative appeal. Drawing from Talbot Brewer and Nir Ben-Moshe, we argue that this appeal lies in a dynamic form of companionship incompatible with static models of friendship-like physician-patient relationships: a mutual refinement of embodied virtue that draws both persons together. The ideal physician-patient relationship has a dialectical character that fosters each member's improvement of phenomenologically recognizing and embodying moral virtues. A key component of this dynamic is a commitment to the common goal of the patient's health, realized through joint interactivities and conversations over time. The physician's presence to the patient's suffering—understood best as an alienating phenomenological condition for the patient—orients and discloses possibilities for virtuous caregiving by structuring the meanings of the goals, conversations, and joint narrative constitutive of their relationship. Presence to suffering, paradoxically, is perhaps an important prerequisite for this dynamic partnership. These activities dialectically build an interpretive horizon of understanding through which moral goods and character refinement—in and for the other—may become revealed for both persons in their shared being-in-the-world. This analysis of suffering, mood, and revealing of (possible) moral goods has implications for addressing the modern problem of loneliness for patients and physicians, who are increasingly inhibited from building flourishing relationships with each other.

Interplay of tradition and modernity in contemporary art practices

The purpose of this article is to examine the profound transformation of artistic consciousness in recent years, drawing attention to the relationship between traditional philosophy and art and modernity. Despite the instability of this connection, art today reflects the reality of our time and focuses on social problems and political revolutions. Using the method of literary analysis and processing of such databases as Scopus, Google scholar and Research Gate, the paper analyses the impact of postmodernism on contemporary art and culture, expanding the horizons of interpretation and understanding of the image in art. The results of the work revealed theories that enable each individual to express their ideas and views through art, creating new ways of perceiving the world around them. It has been shown that the interaction of tradition and modernity in contemporary art practices occurs through the image as a key element of postmodernism, which plays an important role in the modern world. Visual perceptions, symbolism, fantasy and imagination are combined in the work of artists and contribute to the formation of reflective thinking. Husserl's philosophy and approaches to the perception of entities helped to develop reflection and understanding of the contemporary socio-cultural environment through the image as a “condition of possibility” for perceiving the world. We conclude that the visual dimension reflects the social construction of the gaze and the atmosphere of our time, reflecting the unique spirit of the era in which we live. The result is a relevant and important understanding of the importance of the image in contemporary culture and the impact of tradition on society.

Assessment of Fracture Density Distribution from Image Logs for Sensitivity Analysis in the Asmari Fractured Reservoir

Characterizing fracture properties in naturally fractured reservoirs poses a significant challenge. While welltesting remains valuable, it often fails to provide precise descriptions of these properties. Bridging this gap requires the integration of geological expertise to enhance fracture assessment. This study addresses the limitations of well-test analysis and explores the application of Conventional Image Logs in structural, fracture, and geomechanical analysis. However, effectively combining these applications with well-test analysis on a field scale reveals a substantial knowledge gap. A critical challenge in this context is the absence of a defined procedure for calculating the variable "σ," a crucial parameter for simulating fractured carbonate reservoirs using image log fracture density. Integrating geological knowledge is essential to reduce uncertainties associated with well-test analysis and provide more accurate characterizations of fracture properties. Image log data processing emerges as a valuable avenue for gaining insights into the static attributes of naturally fractured reservoirs. This study focuses on Characterizing fractures using data from ten image logs and Developing a more accurate simulation model through the interpretation of images, with a particular emphasis on OBM imaging. The main goals of this fracture study revolve around establishing correlations between fracture densities well by well within the simulation and enhancing the accuracy of the simulation model by incorporating fracture data from image logs. Borehole imaging tools such as FMI/FMS and OBMI-UBI play a pivotal role in identifying significant structural features, including faults, fractures, and bedding. Fine-tuning fracture parameters during the history matching process, while potentially time-consuming, significantly impacts other historical match parameters. Consequently, the reliability of reservoir simulation results, predictions, and recovery enhancement strategies hinges on the precision of fracture properties and their distribution within the model. Recent advances in interpretation techniques have expanded the horizons of image interpretation, enabling the creation of more accurate simulation models for fractured reservoirs using fracture data obtained from image logs. The overarching goal of this project is to comprehensively evaluate a fractured reservoir field by integrating data from ten individual wells.

Theology for crisis: practical theology and the practice of giving an account

ABSTRACT Practical theology has historically identified the problems that confront individuals and communities as a principal site for theological reflection and research. While such attention to the contextual concerns that confront communities of faith has (re)centred the field, reducing practical theology to reflection on problems underestimates the complexity of the crisis/es individuals and communities face. Secondarily, a limited focus on problems understates the field’s interpretive consequence by reducing practical theology to pragmatic reflection on the social realities that surround faith. In contrast to existing focus on problems, ‘crisis’ provides a category that permits social description and theological reflection about the interplay between divine and human activity in the ordering of a common life. Representing an experience of being brought up short, crisis requires new interpretive horizons and invites individuals and communities to cultivate the practice of giving an account. First, I introduce the crisis in the field as the reduction of theological reflection to problems alone. Second, I defined ‘crisis’, noting how crisis differs from trauma, tragedy, and characteristic damage. Third, and finally, I draw upon Luke-Acts to illustrate how this reframing of practical theology around crisis requires the practice of giving an account of divine and human encounter.

Open Sesame! The Magical Words of the World of Meaning of Human Beings: Dialectical Harmony of the Symbolical Forms

Ernst Cassirer made an original contribution to twentieth century philosophy with his genuine series of the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms. Cassirer evaluates the various moments of culture from an integral perspective in this multi-faceted study that covers the symbolic dimension of human communication and interaction with the world. Cassirer's contribution to the philosophical agenda was reinforced by the works An Essay on Man and The Myth of the State, published posthumously. These latter works, however, go beyond mere repetition and summary of Cassirer's thought. Particularly, The Myth of the State is important to confront a problem left open by Cassirer's integral philosophy of culture; the return of myth that consolidates contemporary political thought and action. Cassirer defines culture as the progressive process of human emancipation; analyzes the elements of culture in dialectical harmony, without reducing one to the other. It is doubtful that a metaphysics of culture will eliminate existing problems, but a philosophical framework that will offer an integral view of culture is still a current need. Although Cassirer presents such a framework, it triggers a series of questions waiting to be resolved within itself. In this study, first, the aspects of Cassirer's philosophy of culture that give the opportunity to comprehend the various dimensions of the human beings’ world of meaning will be discussed in detail. Then, it will be tried to describe the depth and limit of the original cultural analysis revealed by this systematic approach to update itself in the face of a historical problem. Within the first half of the twentieth century, totalitarianism, as an experience that completely shook the world of meaning of the West, documented the violence and destruction of the culture's transformation into cult. Thus, the challenge concerning Cassirer's assumption of dialectical harmony of symbolic forms that move culture raises the need for a political horizon. Although The Myth of State has tried to present this necessary complementary horizon of interpretation, it is far from the comprehensive dimension offered by the critical philosophical interventions bolstered mainly by Cassirer’s thought.

Teaching time as a social imaginary. Using speculative fabulation to deconstruct the hegemonic temporalities of modernity

In this paper, we discuss our experience in teaching time to university students. Our analysis suggests that students’ sociological imagination and fictional creativity might be used as means to deconstruct the hegemonic temporalities of modernity. Specifically, we exemplify our claims by considering a set of classroom activities that use speculative fabulation in order to make students question key assumptions about the objective nature of time. The activities we discuss are based on an original combination of exposure to cultural products, reflective writing exercises, and moderated group discussion, thus opening up new horizons of temporal experimentation, exploration, and interpretation. Our activities invite students to imagine alternative temporalities that are decoupled from prevalent mindsets and challenge the taken-for-granted assumptions about the temporal worlds. The assignments are designed as imaginative scenarios, in which students are asked to question the universal, commodified, and absolute notion of time while becoming familiar with the work of relevant thinkers in sociology and anthropology. Based on our results, we conclude that speculative fabulation holds a strong emancipatory potential and is able to bring about significant changes in how students think about time, because it promotes more empowering and meaningful ways of engagement with the world.

Идея опосредования Л.С. Выготского: семиотические и образовательные проекции

<p>The work is aimed at discussing and clarifying the understanding of L.S. Vygotsky's idea of mediation in relation to educational processes and the semiotic perspective of their research. The provisions interpreting the concept of "sign" as a mediating mechanism of cultural and historical development of a person, the growing up of a child, the development of his mental processes, language thinking are presented. The history of the formation of semiotic concepts, their isomorphism to the ideas of L.S. Vygotsky is considered: the development of a sign, including verbal, allows you to move from natural actions into a conditional, virtual space, with a wide repertoire of not only mimesis, but also symbolic actions. The idea of the mediating mechanism of speech reflection as the basis of functional literacy is being developed. Speech reflection and diary activity are considered as the realization of the idea of mediation in language teaching. The semiotic interpretation of L.S. Vygotsky's mediation theory is presented, educational projections of its implementation in teaching the native language are shown. From the point of view of epistemological searches, a comparison of the ideas of Vygotsky and Levi-Strauss is undertaken. L.S. Understanding model Vygotsky, which underlies modern ideas about meaning and speech affirmation, is indicated by the metaphor of translation: it is the translation of alienated external meanings into the mental language of internal speech and the transformation of meaning into meaning, and then - the "internalization" of meaning, that is, the translation of the meanings that have arisen into external speech and the formation of a new, enriched meaning. It is shown that L.S. Vygotsky's semiotic merit also consists in the fact that the scientist understood the linguistic sign as an intermediary sign and brought it into the space of culture, thereby opening the cultural and historical horizon of interpretation of semiotic phenomena.</p>

정주(程朱)의 충서론(忠恕論)과 당대신유가의 해석

Cheng brothers and Zhu Xi explained Zhongshu忠恕 by dividing it into the Zhongshu of saints and the Zhongshu of scholars. If the Zhongshu of a saint completely realizes the Zhongshu of heaven and earth without any selfishness, the Zhongshu of a scholar requires constant efforts to practice. In particular, Zhu Xi paid attention to the Zhongshu of scholars, set up a problem situation in which Zhongshu was not carried out properly, and then suggested the study of deliberation and sincerity as a solution. According to Cheng-Zhu’s theory of Zhongshu, Zhong and Shu have a logical structure of Ti體 and Yong用. The relationship between the two can be seen as the relationship between Ili一理 and Wanshu萬殊. Feng Youlan, Tang Junyi, Xu Fuguan, and Mou Zongsan, who are counted as the contemporary Confucians, each presented different interpretations of Cheng-Zhu’s theory of Zhongshu from their own perspectives. Feng Youlan refers to “Desiring to take his stand, one who is Good helps others to take their stand; wanting to realize himself, he helps others to realize themselves.” as Zhong忠, “Do not impose upon others what you yourself do not desire.” as Shu恕. On the other hand, Tang Junyi considers the former as active Shu and the latter as passive Shu. In addition, Xu Fuguan divided Zhong and Shu into two aspects: the completion of one’s own self(成己) and the completion of all things(成物). Lastly, Mou Zongsan insists that Cheng Mingdao’s understanding which explained Zhongshu in the dimension where the heavenly principle is constantly revealed, that is, “existing and active”, is correct. In addition, he evaluates that the explanations of Cheng Yichuan and Zhu Xi did not properly explain the true meaning of Zhongshu. The various explanations of the contemporary Confucians on Zhongshu each have their own grounds for argument. It can be said that their various reading methods have broadened the horizon of interpretation. Korean scholars generally take the view of Tang Junyi’s view, which divides Shu into positive and negative aspects among Contemporary Confucians’ Interpretations. I think this is because it keeps in mind Cheng-Zhu’s theory of Zhongshu. In the future, in-depth discussions on the modern significance of Zhongshu should be added.

상호문화교육에 기반한 한국어 문화 교수·학습 설계

In order to design Korean language culture teaching and learning based on intercultural education, this study selected “The Fairy and the Woodcutter” corresponding to the world-class folktale transmission type swan maiden, and surveyed and reflected the perceptions of Chinese and Vietnamese learners twice. The real culture of foreign learners was reflected in teaching and learning by investigating the commonalities and differences between “The Fairy and the Woodcutter-牛郎 織女-Ngưu lang Chức nữ” that the people of “Korea-China-Vietnam” commonly know. In addition, it was intended to promote learners intercultural capabilities by considering Byram and the Korean Language Education Standard Model Development Process, which emphasized the improvement of intercultural cultural communication capabilities of both learners and instructors in foreign language education. These efforts are meaningful in that they have been actively carried out using folk tales in Korean language education, expanding the interpretive horizon of Korean language culture education.

This study stems from an artistic phenomenon that has its traces in a poetic function which observes the milestone of creation in employing in employing the Qur’anic intertextuality in the poetry of Ashja 'al-Salami. Intertextuality is a met


 
 
 
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 This study stems from an artistic phenomenon that has its traces in a poetic function which observes the milestone of creation in employing in employing the Qur’anic intertextuality in the poetry of Ashja 'al-Salami. Intertextuality is a method of modern studies suitable for poets' poetry in employing the technicality of origins and belongings to supplement their texts with anew power , especially the use of the Qur’an, literature in an artistic way that increases the indications and richness of the poetic text, and opens wide horizons for contemplation and interpretation)) especially, when this artistic creativity is from a creative poet with his religious outcome. Intertextuality is based on previous texts absent in the poet’s memory, and nothing is more beautiful and deeper than employing the heritage of religious culture and Qur’anic texts that have a prominent effect on deepening the meaning and enriching the text artistically and intellectually. The research relied on the descriptive and analytical approach in tracking, monitoring, describing and analyzing the phenomenon of intertextuality.
 The poet Ashjae Alsalmi, like the other poets, he drew a lot from the meanings of the Noble Qur’an and its vocabulary, for he does not cease to refer to the Qur’anic text and the religious heritage which are entrenched in himself, to obtain what nourishes and benefits his poetry, and to highlight the effectiveness of intertextuality in showing the dimensions of poetic experience.
 The concept of intertextuality is a broad and comprehensive concept, as it accommodates various forms of textual interaction, therefore it is not subject to retraction and reduction in any form All poets used it in their poems and excelled in their handling of it, whether in direct or indirect intertextuality with the words of the Noble Qur’an and its meanings, and among them the poet of Ashjae Alsalmi who is the topic of this research.
 
 
 

Genetic outline of the hermeneutics of the diseases connection phenomenon in human.

The structure of diseases in humans is heterogeneous, which is manifested by various combinations of diseases, including comorbidities associated with a common pathogenetic mechanism, as well as diseases that rarely manifest together. Recently, there has been a growing interest in studying the patterns of development of not individual diseases, but entire families associated with common pathogenetic mechanisms and common genes involved in their development. Studies of this problem make it possible to isolate an essential genetic component that controls the formation of disease conglomerates in a complex way through functionally interacting modules of individual genes in gene networks. An analytical review of studies on the problems of various aspects of the combination of diseases is the purpose of this study. The review uses the metaphor of a hermeneutic circle to understand the structure of regular relationships between diseases, and provides a conceptual framework related to the study of multiple diseases in an individual. The existing terminology is considered in relation to them, including multimorbidity, polypathies, comorbidity, conglomerates, families, "second diseases", syntropy and others. Here we summarize the key results that are extremely useful, primarily for describing the genetic architecture of diseases of a multifactorial nature. Summaries of the research problem of the disease connection phenomenon allow us to approach the systematization and natural classification of diseases. From practical healthcare perspective, the description of the disease connection phenomenon is crucial for expanding the clinician's interpretive horizon and moving beyond narrow, disease-specific therapeutic decisions.

On the Rhetoric of Sports Heroism in Ancient and Modern Times

Contemporary fascination with sports champions is the subject of many sociological and psychological analyses. The article complements this multi-level perspective with philosophical analyses in the field of the history of ideas and rhetorical communication. It presents the idea of sports heroism as a historically developing form of communication discourse. The premise is the thesis that the figure of a sports hero is each time a creation of a communication context, i.e. a message and interpretation using axio-normative, appealing and persuasive rhetorical means. In this rhetoric, objective and measurable sports mastery is strengthened and transformed into a communicative image enriched with moral, social, aesthetic, ludic-hedonistic and marketing meanings. The article is located in the humanistic area of the history of culture, and its reflection, which is the fruit of desk research, is developed in relation to the existing thematic literature using the hermeneutic principle of the fusion of interpretative horizons. The aim is to show the spectrum of meaning pertaining to the sports hero’s character components, starting from Greek athletics, through the discourse of ancient philosophers (developed by Coubertin) to the media fame of today’s sports champions. The rhetoric and practice of sporting mastery are two sides of the sporting coin.

Litigating Climate Justice: The Right to Health and Vulnerable Populations in Latin America

As the climate crisis disproportionately imperils the health of populations living in poverty and social exclusion in Latin America, realizing the most vulnerable population's right to health as a crucial component for achieving climate justice becomes increasingly urgent. While the region's new constitutionalism has made progress toward protecting this right, a transformative approach is just beginning to take hold in the field of climate change law, as evidenced by the growing number of rights-based climate litigation cases. This paper employs systematic content analysis (SCA) to qualitatively examine the corpus of domestic rights-based climate change lawsuits filed across Latin American jurisdictions through mid-2022 and places a sharper focus on the adjudicated cases. The goal is to scrutinize the relationship between the use of the right to health and climate justice within this body of litigation. Particularly, the study delves into the interplay of the social and ecological factors that compound climate vulnerability. It achieves this by identifying and classifying data based on the motives of the litigants, the objectives of the litigants and courts and their arguments, and the legal bases of their respective complaints and judgments as they relate to the existing and emerging health concerns of vulnerable populations. The findings reveal a constellation of ways in which litigants and courts use the right to health in relation to the socio-ecological spectrum of health vulnerability. This paper proposes a typology of cases (climate justice gradient) to conceptualize this phenomenon as a first step in expanding the strategic and interpretative horizons of the current climate litigation toward a more comprehensive approach to climate justice.

Szkice egzystencjalne o Mickiewiczu Kazimierza Świegockiego

Michał Siedlecki reviews the book by Kazimierz Świegocki, entitled: Mickiewicz egzystencjalny (Mickiewicz the Existentialist). Świegocki addressed his work to experts in the works of Adam Mickiewicz. This is not an egalitarian or popular science work. The sketches are erudite. Siedlecki emphasises the fact that the research work of Świegockiremains an important element in contemporary studies on Mickiewicz. Although it does not resemble a standard dissertation, it is worth focusing our attention on, as it deals with some fundamental issues in the works of the Bard, from the Crimean Sonnets through Dziady (The Forefathers’ Eve) to Pan Tadeusz (Mister Thaddeus), focusing particularly on the last work of the poet listed here. He shows new horizons of interpretation, although sometimes he only completes the previous theses of Polish academics. It is an essayist’s exegesis of Mickiewicz’s works, full of the researcher’s direct reflections.

‘불편한 문화유산(Inconvenient Heritage)’에 대한 복원의 정치

This paper tries to analyze the cultural heritage of ethnic Chinese and overseas Chinese in Vietnam from the perspective of ‘inconvenient heritage,’ focusing on the restoration of ‘the Guangdong Assembly Hall’ located in the ancient quarter of Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. Firstly, it traces the change in the perspectives and policies of cultural heritage as a resource appropriated for the state-building, nationalism, and the governmentality of the party-state through Vietnam's historical trajectory of cultural heritage management, preservation, and restoration. Secondly, it discusses the possibility of the concept of inconvenient heritage as an instrumental tool, and examines the ‘inconvenient’ historicity of Vietnamese ethnic Chinese, overseas Chinese and Hanoi as the capital city of Vietnam. In particular, it attempts to unravel how the complex history of the Chinese migration and the political vulnerabilities of ethnic Chinese and overseas Chinese unfold the horizon of interpretation of cultural intimacy formed through mutual exchange between Vietnamese and Chinese people. Finally, it tries to analyze the restoration project of the Guangdong Assembly Hall in the ancient quarter of Hanoi in terms of historicity and politics of memory. As a conclusion, this paper suggests that the politics of memory on contemporary cultural heritage such as cultural heritage of a specific population, especially an ethnic minority and immigrant group, is eventually in line with how to secure a horizon of mutual understanding of inherent “inconvenience.”

Titok és idegenség csapdájában (Szilágyi István: Messze túl a láthatáron)

This paper explores the world of István Szilágyi's latest novel, Far Over the Horizon. The main character Mátyás Tompay Wajtha lives through the fall of the freedom fight, the “kuruc rebellion” as the confidant, secretary of Ferenc Rákóczi II. At the request of Rákóczi he starts writing his memoirs, but a tragedy casts shadows over his fate: his wife was lured away, she got into an accident, the ice broke under the sled. The secret of his wife being lured away and dying keeps him captive until the end of the novel. After the tragedy Tompay “estranges away” from his environment, home in the first part. The second part of the novel picks up the story about thirty years later, when Tompay judges cases brought before him already as the chief judge of Tipród county. His life is surrounded by secrecy and strangeness, and in the discussions “mind constructs” ahead of his age are revealed. The analysis emphasizes the following characteristics: István Szilágyi words the important questions of defining and judging crime in an open, experimental novel format on the pages of Far Beyond the Horizon, interwoven with the fine web of motifs so characteristic of him. He does so on the one hand with a historic character, building on the tradition of witch trials. It appears as a serious moral dilemma, thinking in the scope of universal humanity, whether witches exist at all. Based on what preconceptions does one pass judgment? Who has the right to judge crimes that cannot be uncovered in their entirety? Mátyás Tompay Wajtha questions the borders of human knowledge, just to get from certain to uncertain every single time, through bitter experiences. Even in the trapped situation of Tompay he tries to see behind the secrets, discover the practicality behind the superstitions, beliefs, witchcraft, love charms and murders. Such interpretative horizons intersect excitingly in the conversations which at first sight we would think to be long obsolete for a man of today. In my opinion, by focusing on the dynamics of strangeness, utilizing the relevant insights of xenology, culture and literary studies, following the system of criteria of close reading, I managed to reveal such structural problems, connection points hardly studied so far which might further nuance the statements of the reception and impact history so far.

Islamic discourse and the problematic of its reading in the light of religious texts

Speech is an important means of communication with humans, individuals and groups, in addition to its importance in shaping the mental environment and mental formation of the human being, guiding individuals and changing the reality of societies from one case to another. From this point of view, the discourse was characterized as moving and changing with specific goals and objectives. As for the concept of religious discourse, it refers to the understanding of religion in the light of the data of the age, stipulating the existence of a person who is reconciled and aware of his time, who participates in it efficiently and who relies on a religious authority in addressing it, its rulings and its statements. This paper deals with the problem of reading religious texts (Islamic as a model), a new reading that keeps pace with developments in light of religious and sectarian pluralism, a reading that is a reason to move the receiver’s horizon, and legislate the horizon of interpretation, and aims to achieve peaceful coexistence between different individuals with different religious and sectarian orientations.

I Know My Redeemer Lives: A Case of Christological Commitments in Christian Preaching of the Book of Job

This article explores Christian interpretation and preaching of Job 19:25–27 as a case in which christological commitments of the Christian faith come into tension with the pre-Christian meanings of the text. Borrowing a term from David Stark, this article explores the hermeneutical crisis of the “historical-christological” binary and proposes the importance of critical self-awareness for sound hermeneutical method. One of the central claims of this article is that the Christian interpreter cannot fully suspend their beliefs or commitments when encountering the texts of the Old Testament; complete objectivity is not possible. Rather, the interpreter must assess their own interpretive horizon - the traditions and contexts that shape one’s perspective - even as they explore the historical moorings of the text. Concluding this article, an analysis of Gardner Taylor’s sermon on Job 19 offers an occasion for homiletical considerations that uphold both Christian commitments and the historical meanings of the text.

Interpretative Phronesis (Practical Wisdom) Analysis: A Hermeneutic Narrative of Research Participant Caring

Aristotle’s distinction between phronesis (practical wisdom) and episteme (theory) has been centrally influential in the development of hermeneutics. Heidegger, initiating hermeneutic phenomenology, foregrounded practical understanding as foundational (or ‘ready-to-hand’): scientific theory was but secondary (‘presented-at-hand’). Gadamer subsequently emphasised understanding as primarily practical, as an applicative achievement, within broad assumptions, ‘horizons of understanding’, a metaphor signalling explicitly/implicitly represented surroundings. How should Aristotle’s idea of practical wisdom in human affairs articulated in phenomenology’s hermeneutic thought - principally Gadamer’s scholarship - inform researcher analyses? Here an account of hermeneutic philosophy, with its core conceptual formations, is presented as concerning situated understanding in practice, phronesis. Multiple instances of this behavioural research focus from psychology’s Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis then receive reflection. Interviewing proceeds from ‘horizons of expectation’ (Jauss 1982). Themes are viewed as 'horizons of understanding’ (Gadamer 1975), interviewees’ perspectives on practices. A researcher may engage in resolving ‘indeterminacy’ (Iser 1978). Participants’ reflectively recounted meaning-making phronesis practices can be structured in their analyses by locating their a priori, universally discernible aspects. Thus phronesis is constituted by generic, care (Heidegger’s Sorge) embodying activity, ‘emplaced’ or understood from tacit representational affective ‘horizons of understanding’: participant bodies can become denoted ‘equipment’ (Heidegger’s Zeug). Keywords: caring, hermeneutic phronesis, interpretative horizons of understanding, phenomenology

『진묵조사유적고』와 『전경』에 나타난 진묵 설화의 차이에 대한 재해석

Concerning the differences in the tales between the Investigation of Historical Remains of Patriarch Jinmuk (hereafter, IHRPJ), as well as those which appear in Jeungsanist Thought and Daesoon Thought, previous studies view such differences as Jeungsan’s intentional modification of the original intent of the narratives or as indicating differences in beliefs and values. This style of interpretation seeks to reconcile both Korean Buddhism and Jeungsanist and Daesoon Thought based on the premise that the former and the latter two exhibit differences in values. This study accepts the above view of the differences in description according to values. However, the differences between the tales of Jinmuk that appears in IHRPJ versus those in The Canonical Scripture can be approached from a new perspective, i.e., the differences that exist between literary and oral traditions; rather than only stemming from potential differences in the world views espoused by Buddhism and Daesoon Thought. These refer to the IHRPJ, which was constructed first as literary narratives in the 19th century; however, there was also folklore that had been handed down from the 18th century. As a result of examining the relationship between Jinmuk and Bonggok via this interpretive horizon, the contents of the IHRPJ are found to reflect the values and intentions of the intellectual class, such those held by Master Cho-ui and Kim Ki-jong, whereas oral traditions can be seen as a reflection of the hopes of the people of the late Joseon Dynasty. Jeungsan should also be interpreted as having utilized folklore in his teachings. Meanwhile, the circumstances and intentions behind publishing the IHRPJ are analyzed in the context of the text’s historical background and the relationship between Confucianism and Buddhism during the 16th through 19th centuries. In particular, through the Compilations of Wandang and the collection of writings of Buddhist monastics, I have evaluated that Confucianism needed to purify and correct materials according to the ideology of the times in order to promote a spirit of morality and courtesy. Likewise, Buddhist Master Cho-Ui also embellished records to benefit Buddhism and deleted oral records that could harm the reputation of Buddhism. On the other hand, when viewing Records of Shrine Renovation and existing oral traditions, it can be shown that some Jinmuk tales existed in the 18th century which were not included in the IHRPJ. Thereby, Jeungsan’s description of Jinmuk tales can be reappraised as accepting the oral secular tradition that conveyed the wishes of the people. In other words, compared to the IHRPJ, which reflects only the harmonious content of Confucianism and Buddhism due to political and social factors, The Canonical Scripture reflects oral traditions that were widespread during the late Joseon Dynasty. As evidence, it can be suggested that there are many narratives about the relationship between Jinmuk and Bonggok that center on Bonggok’s jealousy and the murder of Jinmuk. Jeungsan aimed to encompass people of all classes according to their minds and wills rather than their political positions or statuses. Therefore, Jeungsan did not need to rewrite the narrative content that had been passed down via oral tradition. Instead he embraced those narratives as a projection of the voices of the people.