The purpose of the phenomenological approach is to illuminate the specific, to identify phenomena through how they are perceived by the actors in a situation. In the human sphere this normally translates into gathering ‘deep’ information and perceptions through inductive, qualitative methods such as...

The use of knots may predate mode humans (Homo sapiens). For example, seashells colored with ocher, pierced with holes, and dated to 82,000 years ago have been discovered in a Moroccan cave. Other archeological evidence suggests much older bead use in humans. The piercing implies the use of cords an...

October 17, 1946D'Arline,I adore you, sweetheart.I know how much you like to hear that — but I don't only write it because you like it — I write it because it makes me warm all over inside to write it to you.It is such a terribly long time since I last wrote to you — almost two years but I know you'...

PHENOMENOLOGYDan ZahaviIs there something like a phenomenological tradition? Opinions are divided. According to one view, phenomenology counts as one of the dominant traditions in twentiethcentury phi

The structure of intentionalityThe basic insight which allowed Husserl to explicate this conception of objectivity-for-subjectivity was his radical understanding of the intentional structure of consci

"Eidetic" is used as synonymous with such traditional terms as "a priori," "essential," and "universal and necessary" in qualifying a distinctive sort of objects, propositions, truths, cognitions, and

Eidetic insight (Wesensschau, Wesenserschauung) See also eidetic variation, eidetics, eidos, essence Wesensschau, or Wesenserschauung (see Ideas I § 3) translated as 'eidetic insight', 'eidetic intuit

EIDETIC INTUITION. Eidetic intuition is the intuition of an eidos or essence. See also ESSENTIAL INSIGHT. EIDETIC PHENOMENOLOGY. An eidetic science is one that apprehends the a priori essences of thin

EIDETIC INTUITION. Eidetic intuition is the intuition of an eidos or essence. See also ESSENTIAL INSIGHT. EIDETIC PHENOMENOLOGY. An eidetic science is one that apprehends the a priori essences of thin

PHENOMENOLOGICAL ATTITUDE. Adopted by means of the performance of the phenomenological reduction, the phenomenological attitude is the reflective attitude in which one carries out phenomenological ana

IDENTIFICATION. An identification arises in a synthesis. The identification can occur on various levels. First, a multiplicity of appearances manifesting a certain phenomenal continuity can be brought

Existential loss in the context of motor neurone disease: a hermeneutic phenomenological studyMotor Neurone Disease (MND) is a rare, devastating neurodegenerative disease of middle/later life, usually

انفعال آگاهی مورد تأثیر قرار گرفتن آن توسط متعلّق ها است، درست آنطور كه متعلّق ها "چنانكه از قبل موجودند"، حاضر می شوند. انفعا ل آگاهی نمی باید به شكل علّی فهمیده شود. از پیش موجود بودن ابژه، دست یابی

IMAGINATION. 1. An experience that represents an object that is both absent and non-actual. In both aspects imagination is opposed to perception. The imagined object can take the form of an image or i

Husserl’s conception of phenomenology is perhaps best captured by the shibboleth “back to the things themselves!” By going back to the things themselves, Husserl evoked a style of thinking, a change in perspective, that did not rely on commonly held prejudices about the world, on the formal manipula...

AxiologyThe epistemic certainty and objective lawfulness that are associated with the concept of the a priori are important in ethics. Scheler proposed to develop ethics understood as “primarily the f

Intersubjectivity (Intersubjektivitàt) See also solipsism, transcendental intersubjectivity The term 'intersubjectivity' has its origins in German Idealism, especially Fichte, Husserl employs the term

Transcendence (Transzendenz) See also immanence, transcendental idealism 'Transcendence' means literally 'to climb beyond', 'to ascend beyond', 'to step over', 'to step across', to 'surmount', 'to exc

Transcendental (transzendental) See Kant, transcendental philosophy Although the term 'transcendental' is evidently co ected with Kant, it is given an original meaning by Husserl. Husserl reproaches

NATURALISM. The view that considers everything exclusively as a natural being, that is, as a spatio-temporal being enmeshed in a causally mechanistic, purely physical world. Whatever exists, on this view, exists as either a physical individual subject to causal laws or as a merely dependent function...