Hermeneutic interpretation in Ricoeur: a possible contribution to education

The aim of this paper is to discuss the relevance of the hermeneutic interpretation in Paul Ricoeur's work. The author draws attention to the interpretation of texts and the role of hermeneutics as a methodological guide in the reading and writing of works and texts - whether theoretical or poetic. The hermeneutic interpretation requires a methodological and an ontological attitude, whose prerequisite is the reflexive philosophy. Ricoeur emphasizes the relevance of the dialectics of understanding and the dialectics of explanation, drawing special attention to elements such as the word, the myth, the poetry, the symbol, and the sign as expressions of the human language, which is not exempt from ideological and utopian materials from the socio-cultural and political fields, whose spheres of understanding and explanation function as integration, legitimization, and dissimulation, which can lead to mistakes, but also reveal manipulations or desires of freedom from the collective.