by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Thoughtful Action
Thoughtful action is a quality of tact. Tact seems to be characterized by a moral intuitiveness. A tactful person somehow seems to sense what is the good or right thing to do. One may distinguish several types of tact. For example, pedagogical tact shares features...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Touching
Touching: The researcher-as-author is challenged to construct a phenomenological text that brings us in touch with the phenomenological gaze. The phenomenologist is a researcher, a seeker of meaning, someone who learns to “really” write in order to gain the experience...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Transcendental Phenomenology
Transcendental phenomenology Basic themes of transcendental phenomenology are “intentionality,” “eidetic reduction,” and “constitution of meaning.” By transcendental phenomenology we refer primarily to the work of Edmund Husserl and his early assistants Edith Stein...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Traversing
Traversing: To write is to traverse the writerly space of the text. The phenomenologist-as-writer tries to bring things into presence through artistic evocation. But to see the being of things directly would require that one moves into that space where the...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Vocatio
Vocatio The aim of the vocatio is to let things “speak” or be “heard” by bringing them into nearness through the vocative power of language. The vocatio has to do with the recognition that a text can “speak” to us, that we may know ourselves addressed by it. There...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Writing
Phenomenological inquiry is practised as phenomenological writing. Writing is the way that phenomenology is practised. Phenomenologists like Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Levinas, Bachelard were not only scholars but also and especially they were...
