DG Humana Institute Forum - Recent Posts https://dghumana.com/community/ DG Humana Institute Discussion Board en-US Tue, 10 Nov 2026 16:31:04 +0000 wpForo 60 Ricoeur explains how metaphor changes meaning within language. Does metaphor presuppose a meaningful relation to what it describes? https://dghumana.com/community/open-questions/ricoeur-explains-how-metaphor-changes-meaning-within-language-does-metaphor-presuppose-a-meaningful-relation-to-what-it-describes/#post-20 Mon, 09 Nov 2026 21:34:03 +0000 An Institute doubt about its own position. Raised in stage 05 Ricoeur.

Q: The Institute asks whether both ordinary and metaphorical attribution already presuppose the relation to the world that we want to explain. Ricoeur’s discussion of plenitude (1981, p. 176) is a test for this reading. We have yet to establish from that passage that meaningful correspondence precedes metaphor.

Passages: Metaphor and the Central Problem of Hermeneutics, p. 176 (1981)

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]]> D.G. Humana https://dghumana.com/community/open-questions/ricoeur-explains-how-metaphor-changes-meaning-within-language-does-metaphor-presuppose-a-meaningful-relation-to-what-it-describes/#post-20 In reading, one partner is absent. A text can refuse a reading, but it cannot answer back as a Thou does. Is the relation to a text a relation in the thesis's sense, or its… https://dghumana.com/community/open-questions/in-reading-one-partner-is-absent-a-text-can-refuse-a-reading-but-it-cannot-answer-back-as-a-thou-does-is-the-relation-to-a-text-a-relation-in-the-thesiss-sense-or-its/#post-19 Mon, 09 Nov 2026 21:34:03 +0000 An open question the Institute puts to the texts. Raised in stage 05 Ricoeur.

Q: Ricoeur's structural point (no shared situation for reciprocal adjustment, pp. 102–105) tests the thesis where only one side can correct. Gadamer keeps the Thou for texts by analogy with address (TM p. 366). The question joins the narrator question above: the record that tells a person's story is a text about them that they cannot answer. Open.

Passages: What Is a Text?, pp. 102–105 · Gadamer, Truth and Method, p. 366

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]]> D.G. Humana https://dghumana.com/community/open-questions/in-reading-one-partner-is-absent-a-text-can-refuse-a-reading-but-it-cannot-answer-back-as-a-thou-does-is-the-relation-to-a-text-a-relation-in-the-thesiss-sense-or-its/#post-19 The legitimacy gap is where 'who decides what counts as a reason' lives. Which of the integrative, the distorting, and the critical functions does an automated determination… https://dghumana.com/community/open-questions/the-legitimacy-gap-is-where-who-decides-what-counts-as-a-reason-lives-which-of-the-integrative-the-distorting-and-the-critical-functions-does-an-automated-determination/#post-18 Mon, 09 Nov 2026 21:34:03 +0000 An open question the Institute puts to the texts. Raised in stage 05 Ricoeur.

Q: Habermas's systematic distortion (HCI pp. 283–285) and Ricoeur's integrative ideology (IMA p. 178) describe the same institution from two sides. The institute's Commentary of October 18 asks who decides what counts as a reason; this is its hermeneutic form. M: our question in H12 remains: reciprocal criticism of ideology and utopia needs non-circular criteria.

Passages: Imagination in Discourse and Action, pp. 178–179 · HCI, pp. 283–285

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]]> D.G. Humana https://dghumana.com/community/open-questions/the-legitimacy-gap-is-where-who-decides-what-counts-as-a-reason-lives-which-of-the-integrative-the-distorting-and-the-critical-functions-does-an-automated-determination/#post-18 When the one telling the story about a person is an institution or an automated system, the argument half of narrative is missing. If the self is narratively formed, what is a… https://dghumana.com/community/open-questions/when-the-one-telling-the-story-about-a-person-is-an-institution-or-an-automated-system-the-argument-half-of-narrative-is-missing-if-the-self-is-narratively-formed-what-is-a/#post-17 Mon, 09 Nov 2026 21:34:03 +0000 An open question the Institute puts to the texts. Raised in stage 05 Ricoeur.

Q: Each of us 'receives a certain narrative identity from the stories which are told to him or her' (Reflections on a New Ethos for Europe, in Kearney, ed., The Hermeneutics of Action, SAGE 1996, p. 6). Records, devices, and systems now tell those stories, and a determination directed upon a person then does not cost money; it costs being. This is DGH's question for technology and human dignity, and it is where the map's argument meets the institute's work on contestability.

Passages: Life in Quest of Narrative, p. 33 · Reflections on a New Ethos for Europe, p. 6

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]]> D.G. Humana https://dghumana.com/community/open-questions/when-the-one-telling-the-story-about-a-person-is-an-institution-or-an-automated-system-the-argument-half-of-narrative-is-missing-if-the-self-is-narratively-formed-what-is-a/#post-17 Does Ricoeur's objection engage Habermas's own method of justification? https://dghumana.com/community/open-questions/does-ricoeurs-objection-engage-habermass-own-method-of-justification/#post-16 Mon, 09 Nov 2026 21:34:03 +0000 An open question the Institute puts to the texts. Raised in stage 05 Ricoeur.

Q: Habermas, 'On Hermeneutics' Claim to Universality' (1970), in Mueller-Vollmer, ed., The Hermeneutics Reader (Continuum 1985), pp. 294–319; PDF viewer page = printed + 13. At pp. 300–301 Piaget's prelinguistic structures may limit hermeneutic universality: 'This complex of questions still awaits its resolution.' At pp. 308–310 creative linguistic success is tied to emancipation. The direct test of Ricoeur's objection against this text has not been done. M: the same pre-linguistic gap our coping claim names appears here in Habermas's own words. Check: 'still awaits its resolution' verified in the PDF on 2026-11-01.

Passages: Habermas, On Hermeneutics’ Claim to Universality, pp. 300–301, 308–310

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]]> D.G. Humana https://dghumana.com/community/open-questions/does-ricoeurs-objection-engage-habermass-own-method-of-justification/#post-16 Does Ricoeur's reciprocity earn its interpretive authority, or relocate it? https://dghumana.com/community/open-questions/does-ricoeurs-reciprocity-earn-its-interpretive-authority-or-relocate-it/#post-15 Mon, 09 Nov 2026 21:34:03 +0000 An open question the Institute puts to the texts. Raised in stage 05 Ricoeur.

Q: The Institute asks whether political commitments can organize a framework before its argument begins and lead it to present a preferred distribution of authority as a discovery about understanding. Working definition: the acquisition of interpretive authority through presenting a preferred political orientation as a necessary condition of understanding. Whether the inherited preservation/transformation opposition reproduces a left/right paradigm is an argument to establish, not a description. M: the question is DGH's; the charge is not made.

Passages: HCI, pp. 298–299

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]]> D.G. Humana https://dghumana.com/community/open-questions/does-ricoeurs-reciprocity-earn-its-interpretive-authority-or-relocate-it/#post-15 A transformed self is not necessarily a less distorted self; exposure to a work can deepen identification with a misleading image. What makes the resulting self-understanding adequate? https://dghumana.com/community/open-questions/a-transformed-self-is-not-necessarily-a-less-distorted-self-exposure-to-a-work-can-deepen-identification-with-a-misleading-image-what-makes-the-resulting-self-understanding-adequate/#post-14 Mon, 09 Nov 2026 21:34:03 +0000 An open question the Institute puts to the texts. Raised in stage 05 Ricoeur.

Q: Ricoeur offers the fundamental possibility of a critique of illusion, not an automatic effect of reading. The burden is an account of the adequacy of the self-understanding that results. Open.

Passages: HCI, pp. 293–294

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]]> D.G. Humana https://dghumana.com/community/open-questions/a-transformed-self-is-not-necessarily-a-less-distorted-self-exposure-to-a-work-can-deepen-identification-with-a-misleading-image-what-makes-the-resulting-self-understanding-adequate/#post-14 A possible world is not yet a better one. What discriminates an emancipatory redescription from an ideological fantasy, and who can contest that judgment? https://dghumana.com/community/open-questions/a-possible-world-is-not-yet-a-better-one-what-discriminates-an-emancipatory-redescription-from-an-ideological-fantasy-and-who-can-contest-that-judgment/#post-13 Mon, 09 Nov 2026 21:34:03 +0000 An open question the Institute puts to the texts. Raised in stage 05 Ricoeur.

Q: Ricoeur establishes the possibility of critique through redescription, not a criterion that every alternative is better; a fiction can also idealize hierarchy or offer escape. The burden is normative discrimination, and a say for those the redescription concerns. Open for anyone to take up.

Passages: HCI, pp. 292–293

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]]> D.G. Humana https://dghumana.com/community/open-questions/a-possible-world-is-not-yet-a-better-one-what-discriminates-an-emancipatory-redescription-from-an-ideological-fantasy-and-who-can-contest-that-judgment/#post-13 The text carries its critical moment because the said is fixed and can be re-read; whether a refusal in coping can be re-read the same way, and so carry critique rather than only… https://dghumana.com/community/open-questions/the-text-carries-its-critical-moment-because-the-said-is-fixed-and-can-be-re-read-whether-a-refusal-in-coping-can-be-re-read-the-same-way-and-so-carry-critique-rather-than-only/#post-12 Mon, 09 Nov 2026 21:34:03 +0000 An Institute doubt about its own position. Raised in stage 05 Ricoeur.

Q: Ricoeur's critical instance depends on fixation in writing (p. 290): the same text can be returned to, explained, and read against its first reading. A refusal in coping corrects on the spot and is gone. The position needs to say what in a non-linguistic encounter plays the part of the fixed text. The Institute leaves this question open.

Passages: HCI, p. 290

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]]> D.G. Humana https://dghumana.com/community/open-questions/the-text-carries-its-critical-moment-because-the-said-is-fixed-and-can-be-re-read-whether-a-refusal-in-coping-can-be-re-read-the-same-way-and-so-carry-critique-rather-than-only/#post-12 'the relation is the test' says where testing happens, not how rival readings are compared and corrected; the Institute still owes an answer to Ricoeur (pp. 287–290) https://dghumana.com/community/open-questions/the-relation-is-the-test-says-where-testing-happens-not-how-rival-readings-are-compared-and-corrected-the-institute-still-owes-an-answer-to-ricoeur-pp-287-290/#post-11 Mon, 09 Nov 2026 21:34:03 +0000 An Institute doubt about its own position. Raised in stage 05 Ricoeur.

Q: Ricoeur asks how anticipation can be worked out according to the things themselves rather than fancy or commonplace (p. 288). Resistance in the encounter rules readings out; it does not rank the readings that survive. Until the position says how comparison and correction proceed, the Institute’s account remains incomplete.

Passages: HCI, pp. 287–290

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