The criteria of understanding according to Paul Ricoeur and the feasibility of their design in religious texts

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1 Department of Jurisprudence and Fundamentals of Islamic Law, Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

2 Department of Islamic Philosophy and Wisdom, Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

Abstract

The thoughts of the contemporary French philosopher, Paul Ricoeur, which was formed in the context of philosophical hermeneutics and hermeneutic phenomenology, have a significant and reflective position among the scholars of this science. In the tradition of popular interpretation, the correct understanding and interpretation is the interpretation that has the most compliance with what the theologian intended, but Ricoeur considers the criterion of valid interpretation to be not the correspondence with the intended meaning of the author, which is more likely. He introduces this criterion provided by "mental probability logic". In explaining the correct interpretation of the text, he considers the two principles of "harmony and compatibility" and "completeness" to be essential in the interpretation. The present article seeks to examine the possibility of proposing these criteria regarding Sharia texts, considering their characteristics, with a descriptive-analytical approach and by collecting information in a library and document method. It seems that the "logic of possibilities" and the "principle of coherence and compatibility and the principle of completeness" can be used among the criteria mentioned in Shari'i texts.

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