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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