Monday, August 04, 2008

Mechanism of Understanding




Every understanding requires pre-understanding. The understanding develop by extracting the meaning from society. It is what we call as 'structural meaning' or 'meaning system'. Family is the starting point of 'structural meaning'. Everyone might have same 'structural meaning', but not identical. The meaning is various, based on our 'situated' in society. To understand better, we must have flexible 'structural meaning'. If the structural meaning is rigid, we cannot get better understanding.


~Yedullah Kazmi~


*notes on Avanced History and Philosophy of Islamic Education, Dr. Yedullah Kazmi, UIAM

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