What do you mean by...? Dialogue, conversation, interpretation

Abstract

This article presents a review about the notion of dialogue or conversation from some hermeneutic philosophy concepts, according to the thougth of german philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer. The hermeneutics deals with the issue of human comprehension as a essencially interpretative phenomena, by the continuous reviewing and projection of meaning under the circular form of a dialogical process, described as a structure of questioning. By the openness to the dialogue it is possible the revealing of conceptual structures by the recognition of the other’s opinion as something meaningful, through which we can reach participation on agreements upon those meanings. This approach implies an post-rationalistic ontology and epistemology, in which subject-object dichotomy traditional of cartesian thinking are surpassed by the comprehension of the interdependence relationship of interpretative meanings.