by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Comparative Reflection
Comparative Reflection Phenomenological literature may contain material which has already addressed in a descriptive or an interpretive manner the very topic or question which preoccupies us. The work of other phenomenologists can be a source with which we can enter...
by admin | Sep 7, 2023 | Conceptual Reflection
Conceptual Reflection Concept analysis is a philosophical technique for specifying differences of meaning. Concept analysis is the process of breaking up a complex conceptual or linguistic entity into its most basic semantic constituents. One assumption of conceptual...
by admin | Sep 7, 2023 | Drawing
Drawing: The words draw us in. In some sense the phenomenologist is like an artist and an author. Just as a painter draws the world so the phenomenologist tries to use words to evoke some aspect of human existence in a linguistic image. Perhaps it is for this reason...
by admin | Sep 7, 2023 | Entering
Entering: To write is to enter the space of the text. Often writing is best done in special places that we seek out. The physical environment has to be conducive to writing. The business office may not be the best place. Too many interruptions. Look at your present...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Ethical Phenomenology
Ethical phenomenology Basic themes of ethical phenomenology are “otherness,” “responsibility,” “I-Thou,” “the vocative,” and “(non)relationality.” Ethical phenomenology probably originates with Max Scheler, a contemporary of Husserl, in his study “The Nature of...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Etymological Reflection
Etymological Reflection The search of etymological sources can be an important aspect of phenomenological “data collecting.” The first thing that often strikes us about any phenomenon is that the words we use to refer to the phenomenon have lost some of their original...
