What is another word for phenomenology?

Pronunciation: [fɪnˌɒmɪnˈɒləd͡ʒi] (IPA)

Phenomenology is a philosophical methodology directed towards the study of conscious experience. It seeks to understand the nature and essence of experience by studying the ways in which we apprehend and interpret the world around us. Synonyms for phenomenology include the study of the "lived experience," or the "phenomenal field." It can also refer to the "structure of consciousness," or the "method of bracketing." The study of phenomenology is often associated with the works of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, who both sought to explore the fundamental structures of human experience. Other related terms include "existentialism," "hermeneutics," and "ontology".

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Usage examples for Phenomenology

Here Fichte taught his great idealism-an idealism which has meant so much in the evolution of the Germany of the nineteenth century; here Hegel was engaged on his great phenomenology of Spirit when Napoleon's army entered the town; here Schopenhauer sent his great dissertation and received his doctor's degree in absentia; here too, the Kantian philosophy found friends who started it on its "grand triumphant march"-a philosophy which raised new problems which have been with us ever since, and which gave a new method of approaching philosophical questions; here Schelling revived modern mysticism and attempted the construction of a great Weltanschauung.
"An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy"
W. Tudor Jones
But I fear there is some justice in Professor Pearson's comment, "Thus his phenomenology is shattered upon his practical theology."
"Christian Mysticism"
William Ralph Inge
For the apparition was a kind of symbol, made as it were expressly for their own phenomenology: it contained a moral meaning that harmonised precisely with all their philosophical ideas.
"Bubbles of the Foam"
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Famous quotes with Phenomenology

  • Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.
    Edmund Husserl
  • The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at large and, specifically, from the descriptive psychology of the phenomena of consciousness.
    Edmund Husserl
  • To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.
    Edmund Husserl
  • Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation.
    Stephen Jay Gould

Related words: phenomenological theory, existential phenomenology, phenomenological psychology, phenomenology of place, phenomenology of race, heidegger's phenomenology, psychotherapy and phenomenology, hermann hesse and phenomenology, eames and the phenomenology of architecture

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