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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...

Epistemology of Practice

Epistemology of Practice describes the forms of knowledge and modes of knowing that inform or animate our actions. How does phenomenology contribute to our practices and experiences of everyday thinking and acting? What is phenomenological knowledge and understanding?...

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...

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...

Exegetical Reflection

Exegetical reflection Exegetical reflection involves the critical, sensitive, and creative reading of related texts Exegetical reflection is the careful studying of related texts in search for insights or perspectives that may further your research. But exegetical...

Existential Phenomenology

Existential phenomenology Basic themes of existential phenomenology are “lived experience,” “modes of being,” “ontology,” and “lifeworld.” In his last work The Crisis of the European Sciences (1936), Husserl had already turned phenomenological analysis away from the...