Relational Enaction and Analogical Hermeneutics: a possible epistemological path as a middle way for Relational Enactive Mindfulness.

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.159410024181110

• Palavras-chave: Relational action, Analogical Hermeneutics, Epistemology, Mindfulness.

• Keywords: Relational action, Analogical Hermeneutics, Epistemology, Mindfulness.

• Abstract:

  The aim of this paper is to situate analogical hermeneutics as a possible epistemological place for the development of the perspective of relational action as a horizon of understanding mindfulness. By means of a metatheoretical reflection, some epistemological tensions are presented and a middle epistemological path is proposed. Subsequently, some epistemological ambiguities and challenges are presented in the framework of the conceptualization of enaction, to later present some epistemological conditions gathered from the work of Francisco Varela, which are prudently adapted to analogical hermeneutics. Finally, an integration towards analogical hermeneutics is made, putting in dialogue the phenomenological tradition of enaction with hermeneutics, giving way to a conceptualization of Relational Enactive Mindfulness. The theoretical scope and possible implications in the area of cognitive sciences and Mindfulness practices are discussed.