Humanbecoming Hermeneutic Sciencing

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to report the details of the humanbecoming hermeneutic sciencing of dignity—the universal living experiences of reverence, awe, betrayal, and shame in The Lives of Others. With this report new language for humanbecoming hermeneutic sciencing is introduced. Language both reflects and cocreates meanings. Language is an evolutionary patterning of symbols specifying meanings for the moment; it is fluid and everchanging. All language evolves gradually as generative ideas dawn, shifting the meaning of words and systems of words. The new language here includes: humanbecoming hermeneutic sciencing as coming to know a text or artform in discoursing with penetrating engaging, interpreting with quiescent beholding, and understanding with inspiring envisaging; horizon of inquiry; scholar-text; scholar-artform; contextually construed circumstance; foreknowings; and newknowings—all of which cocreate new meanings.