Explain your understanding of the concept of phenomenology
Explain your understanding of the concept of phenomenology QY5GP
Phenomenology is commonly understood in either of two ways: as a disciplinary field in philosophy, or as a movement in the history of philosophy.
The discipline of phenomenology may be defined initially as the study of structures of experience, or consciousness. Literally, phenomenology is the study of “phenomena”: appearances of things, or things as they appear in our experience, or the ways we experience things, thus the meanings things have in our experience. Phenomenology studies conscious experience as experienced from the subjective or first person point of view. This field of philosophy is then to be distinguished from, and related to, the other main fields of philosophy: ontology (the study of being or what is), epistemology (the study of knowledge), logic (the study of valid reasoning), ethics (the study of right and wrong action), etc.
The historical movement of phenomenology is the philosophical tradition launched in the first half of the 20th century by Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Paul Sartre, et al. In that movement, the discipline of phenomenology was prized as the proper foundation of all philosophy—as opposed, say, to ethics or metaphysics or epistemology. The methods and characterization of the discipline were widely debated by Husserl and his successors, and these debates continue to the present day. (The definition of phenomenology offered above will thus be debatable, for example, by Heideggerians, but it remains the starting point in characterizing the discipline. )
In recent philosophy of mind, the term “phenomenology” is often restricted to the characterization of sensory qualities of seeing, hearing, etc. : what it is like to have sensations of various kinds. However, our experience is normally much richer in content than mere sensation. Accordingly, in the phenomenological tradition, phenomenology is given a much wider range, addressing the meaning things have in our experience, notably, the significance of objects, events, tools, the flow of time, the self, and others, as these things arise and are experienced in our “life-world”.
Phenomenology is
commonly
understood in either of two ways: as a disciplinary field in
philosophy
, or as a movement in the history of philosophy.
The
discipline
of phenomenology may
be defined
initially
as the
study
of structures of
experience
, or consciousness.
Literally
, phenomenology is the
study
of “phenomena”: appearances of things, or things as they appear in our
experience
, or the ways we
experience
things,
thus
the meanings things have in our
experience
. Phenomenology
studies
conscious
experience
as experienced from the subjective or
first
person point of view. This field of
philosophy
is then to
be distinguished
from, and related to, the other main fields of
philosophy
: ontology (the
study
of being or what is), epistemology (the
study
of knowledge), logic (the
study
of valid reasoning), ethics (the
study
of right and
wrong
action), etc.
The historical movement of phenomenology is the philosophical tradition launched in the
first
half of the 20th century by Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Maurice
Merleau-Ponty
, Jean-Paul Sartre, et al. In that movement, the
discipline
of phenomenology
was prized
as the proper foundation of all philosophy—as opposed, say, to ethics or metaphysics or epistemology. The methods and characterization of the
discipline
were
widely
debated by Husserl and his successors, and these debates continue to the present day. (The definition of phenomenology offered above will
thus
be debatable,
for example
, by
Heideggerians
,
but
it remains the starting point in characterizing the
discipline
.
)
In recent
philosophy
of mind, the term “phenomenology” is
often
restricted to the characterization of sensory qualities of seeing, hearing, etc. : what it is like to have sensations of various kinds.
However
, our
experience
is
normally
much richer in content than mere sensation.
Accordingly
, in the phenomenological tradition, phenomenology is
given
a much wider range, addressing the meaning things have in our
experience
,
notably
, the significance of objects,
events
, tools, the flow of time, the self,
and others
, as these things arise and
are experienced
in our “life-world”.
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