by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Perceptiveness
Perceptivenessis a quality of tact. In general, tact implies sensitivity, a sensitive mindful perceptiveness. The dictionary defines tact as “a keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others or avoid offense.” But the significance of...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | 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...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | 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...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | 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...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | 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...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Reductio
Reductio It is impossible to practice the phenomenological method without understanding the meaning and significance of the reduction. “Reduction” is the technical term that describes a phenomenological device which permits us to discover what Merleau-Ponty (1962)...
