Gadamer claims that hermeneutics is descriptive in that it does not prescribe a particular method: “I am not proposing a method; I am describing what is the case” (Gadamer, 1960/1990, p. 512). To live or to lead hermeneutically is thus not to subscribe to a specific philosophical perspective or way of life so much as it is to be attuned to the progress of one’s own self-understanding through conversations with the past and with other humans that expand one’s horizons. One could argue, of course, that this is a particular philosophical perspective, with roots in Socratic dialogue, Aristotelian phronesis, and phenomenology.