Philosophical Thinking and the Project of Methodological Transformations: From the Perspective of the Hermeneutic Questioning Horizon

Authors

  • Abdelghani Bara

    Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat 123, Oman
  • Mahrous Mahmoud Alkolaly

    Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat 123, Oman
  • AbdALRahman Teama Hassan

    Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat 123, Oman
  • Omer Ahmed Seddig

    Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat 123, Oman
  • Cherif Taoutaou

    Department of Sociology and Social Work, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat 123, Oman

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30564/fls.v7i12.11911
Received: 2 September 2025 | Revised: 3 October 2025 | Accepted: 10 October 2025 | Published Online: 5 November 2025

Abstract

By employing an archaeological and genealogical approach, this study seeks to unearth the structure of hermeneutic discourse, exploring the unsaid within the systems that form concepts as unique entities. From this perspective, the role of hermeneutics, is greater than merely exploring the depths of texts to decipher their hidden meanings; it is a search within the zones of silence and absence where the correspondence between apparent and hidden meanings, and even between contradictory and oppositional ones, is negated, and where difference, multiplicity, and possibility prevail. Thus, the hermeneutic act becomes an ambitious project within philosophical spheres, or rather, the ambition of philosophy itself, to transcend its own standards and claims to possess certainty/the ready-made, aiming to reinterpret itself through the strategy of an ever-renewing question about the truth of man in this existence. This is a question that goes beyond the capacity of the transcendental or contemplative reason, which seeks to grasp essences and natures. This is perhaps what makes hermeneutics, as it is the case with speculative philosophy, a philosophy that aims to grant human beings the possibility of understanding their self in terms of their being. As hermeneutics is the foundation of the hermeneutic mind project, it is a return to the beginning: a return to the original project of rationality in philosophical thinking, namely, the question and interpretation of existence.

Keywords:

Philosophical Thinking; Hermeneutic Mind; the Questioning Horizon; the Hermeneutic Age; Interpretation of Existence

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Bara, A., Mahmoud Alkolaly, M., Hassan, A. T., Seddig, O. A., & Taoutaou, C. (2025). Philosophical Thinking and the Project of Methodological Transformations: From the Perspective of the Hermeneutic Questioning Horizon. Forum for Linguistic Studies, 7(12), 364–374. https://doi.org/10.30564/fls.v7i12.11911

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