Exercise 1.

Hermeneutics Exercise 1 (pg 20)

When reading my local newspaper I am not generally aware of the hermeneutical process one utilizes to understand articles. The hermeneutical process is formalized to reduce the cumulative impact of any historical gaps, the cultural gaps, the philosophical gaps and/or linguistic gaps. These four gaps should not be pronounced enough in a local newspaper to hinder my effective understanding of articles. They are, however present in the process.

However reading:

“That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.” ,

from Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, hermeneutics may effect these four gaps to understanding, ... but not to the extent that its formal study might enhance the communication process.

Now when one undertakes the reading of Shakespeare’s Macbeth and finds renderings:

Witch“When shall we three meet again, In thunder, lightning, or in rain?” WitchWhen the hurlyburly's done, When the battle's lost and won.” Witch: “That will be ere the set of sun.”

Here we would expect a little more insight from hermeneutics necessitated to avoid all four of these barriers.