العلوم الانسانية بين التفسير و الفهم

الملخص EN

The subject of human sciences is one of the topics that raised the interest of philosophers and epistemologists in the present time, and this is primarily due to the nature of this subject, which is concerned with the human being as a creature that requires study.

But the methodology of study of this subject was different among researchers.

Some think that human sciences, within which the human being is the subject, must be scientific to be raised to the other sciences especially the natural one, and suggests that human being is a phenomenon that can be studied through an experimental method, thus can be scientifically interpreted.

On the other hand, others claimed that the nature of the human being imposes dependence on a method other than the experimental method, based on the idea that human phenomenon must be subject to understanding, not explanation, because the human does not enjoy the same characteristics of other phenomena and therefore difficult to experiment with it and this led to replace interpretation with understanding since the beginning of the twentieth century.

The purpose of this study is to uncover the nature of human sciences and then to determine the appropriate approach to this subject and to understand the importance of interpretation and understanding as mechanisms through which human being can be studied, while examining the reasons that led to the replacement of interpretation with understanding.