Edmund Husserl, Logical Investigations. Volume I. Prolegomena to Pure Logic

Lifeworld hermeneutics: An approach and a method for research on existential issues in caring science

“…A lifeworld hermeneutical study takes its ontological and epistemological point of departure from the abovementioned ideas: from Husserl's lifeworld perspective [3], Heidegger's ideas of interpretation [5], and Gadamer's immersion in human understanding [6]. The concrete way of working that we propose is also influenced by Ricoeur [16,17].…”

“…In this article, we have highlighted the most important turn of hermeneutics, which took place during the first part of the 20th century [4]. Then, Husserl's [3] phenomenological lifeworld theory brought hermeneutics away from fixed and objective methodological principles, which had dominated hermeneutics during the 19th century. For Heidegger [5], it was obvious that hermeneutics was indeed not simply a method of interpretation.…”

“…Edmund Husserl's phenomenological ‘lifeworld theory’ provides an important ontological and epistemological foundation [3, 4] for lifeworld hermeneutics. Lifeworld theory describes the world that means something to us as humans in an original and individual way, identifying the deeper levels of lived experiences as preceding any abstractions or theories.…”

“…In these terms, it is possible to understand another human being to some extent—but never quite completely. Husserl [3, 4] means that when we are intentional and understand the meaning of something as something, a phenomenon in the phenomenological sense reveals itself to us. A phenomenon can be understood as ‘something as it is experienced or lived by a human being’.…”

“…A phenomenon can be understood as ‘something as it is experienced or lived by a human being’. A phenomenon is something outside oneself: an object, a matter or any other thing as it presents itself for human consciousness [3, 4]. According to Husserl, this way of understanding is a characteristic of our ‘natural attitude’, which is a pre‐reflected and taken‐for‐granted attitude towards understanding, in which human beings are immersed.…”