Non-religious philosophical frameworks

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Can ask what got you into Hermenuetics? What did that field appeal to you so much? I know some people are focused on and puzzled by say, Ethics which I have been in the past. Is there a text, experience, or an idea that you started with where you began to pursue this field?

Good questions, Zoness. I don't think there was any one thing or any one moment that sparked my interest in Hermeneutics. For the most part, my interest came through a gradual accretion of insights and "a-ha!" moments where I made connections between various concepts. Of course, my later education played a large role in the way in that I now evaluate things like religion on the whole, but perhaps my earliest recognition of how our personal environment, culture and social development play a part in our perceptions and in how we conceptualize and interpret our world came as I realized not just the disparities between, say, natural history and religious creation myths, but also in my having to grapple with the actual psychological complications which came with having a mother who had schizophrenia.

Anyway, there's a cargo ship worth of things I could list that came during 30 years of accretion and education, but I won't bore you with all of that. What I've just said above captures, I think, the nutshell version of my agnostically tinged philosophical travels.