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Phenomenological Reduction

The phenomenological reduction: concreteness Method: Bracket all knowledge, all theory or theoretical meaning, all belief in what is real, and aim at evoking concreteness or living meaning. The phenomenological reduction requires that one avoid all abstraction, all...

Phenomenological Sources

The variety of philosophical and applied phenomenological literature is a rich source for insights. It speaks for itself that anyone undertaking a phenomenological study would find the domain of phenomenological literature the most helpful source of meaning. For...

Plato

Plato was born to an aristocratic family in Athens. His father, Ariston, was believed to have descended from the early kings of Athens. Perictione, his mother, was distantly related to the 6th-century B.C. lawmaker Solon. When Plato was a child, his father died, and...

Practice as Pathic Knowledge

Phenomenological understanding is not primarily gnostic, cognitive, intellectual, technical but rather it is pathic, that means situated, relational, embodied, enactive. The term “pathic” derives from pathos, meaning “suffering, and also passion and disease or the...

Practice as Tact

Practice as tact: Tact is a particular sensitivity and sensitiveness to situations, and how to behave in them, but for which we cannot find any knowledge from general principles. Discussions on the relation between theory and practice (the translation of theoretical...