by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Literary And Aesthetic Sources
Literature, poetry, and art are sources of phenomenological insights The human scientist likes to make use of the works of poets, authors, artists, cinematographers–because it is in this material that the human being can be found as situated person, and it is in this...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Metaphors
Apt metaphors can make visible aspects of human experience. Nietzsche observed that all language, and therefore all truth and error, is metaphoric in origin. Virtually every word we utter originally derives from some image, thereby betraying its metaphoric genesis. So...
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 | Sayings
Sayings, proverbs, expressions, and idiomatic phrases can be sources of phenomenological meaning. Sayings and idiomatic phrases can be helpful sources for phenomenological meaning. They may reveal something about the experience they are used to describe. For example,...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Social Scientific Sources
All the social sciences find their starting points in the lifeworld. All social science theories originally found their impetus in the world of everyday lived experience. All social science is built on a substrate of phenomenological meanings. For this reason the...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Sources Of Meaning
The phenomenologist searches a variety of sources of meaning. Phenomenological inquiry draws on many types and sources of meaning. These sources lie not only within the disciplinary boundaries of the social sciences but also in other human domains such as the arts,...
