Phenomenology

subjective and personal sanctity, which is indeed the ultimate reason for her whole institutional and objective side.” This paper will delve into how Balthasar and Victoria Harrison, the author of “Personal Identity and Integration: Von Balthasar’s Phenomenology of Human Holiness,” explain the phenomenon of human sanctity. According to these two authors, there are several key aspects to human holiness which are: mission, personhood, and form of sanctity. This essay will briefly explore…

In the “The Phenomenology of Gift Giving”, Helmuth Berking (1999), the author, explores the causes and mechanisms of gift – giving as a social practice. He maintains that the gift – giving is an essential part of reciprocal communication between individuals. Berking also suggests that both the gift and reciprocation to it corresponds to the established structure and character of human relations in a community. Berking (1999) starts by pointing out that gift – giving as a practice transferred…

Throughout her career and later life is where Foot began her life in philosophy and wrote her many essays on the topic of moral philosophy. In her personal life, she had shared a flat with Iris Murdoch directly after they graduated out of college. However, their friendship was fairly short lived as Iris left historian MRD Foot, and caused him suffering. Philippa, as a way to console him, married him in 1945. After marrying, the couple moves back to Oxford where she begins a graduate scholarship…

What is RxNorm? RxNorm is a reference terminology that applies standardized names to medications. Its creation was motivated by need for a standard terminology for representing drugs. These names are then linked to the drug names used in pharmacy software programs that manage patient medications and interactions (e.g. Micromedex, Medispan, First Databank). Rx norm also includes the National Drug File -Reference Terminology (NDF-RT) that is used by the Veterans Health Administration (NIH U.S.…

Critical review of the article Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory by Judith Butler Gender is a difficult term to define. Some people might think it is the external characteristics of a person what marks it, others believe it is what it is what you feel inside, and another may hold that is what society imposes them. This critical review examines an article that argues that “gender identity is a performative accomplishment compelled by social…

Where Can We Put Phenomenology, Logical Positivism, and Critical Theory in The Urban Planning Context? This short paper addresses the evolution of social inquiry in the planning actions. To shed some light on the social inquiry subject and its development in the planning field Logical Positivism, Phenomenology, and Critical Theory approaches will be examined in detail. These three perspectives will be compared and contrasted in each other to obtain similarities and differences in what is seen as…

then analyzing them and concluding with a consensus. Phenomenology, due to its complexity, is considered both qualitative and quantitative. It will support in gathering the data to better understand the emotions behind each student’s experiences with doctoral persistence during their studies. This research will aid to understand the groups of both students who graduated with a doctoral degree or those who lacked doctoral persistence. Phenomenology research states that it often benefits groups of…

To be clear, the ordinary common sense view of personal identity being endorsed here posits knowledge claims of personal identity are objectively valid statements because these claims are priori truths. But I digress, this definition is of itself an act of charity because ordinary common sense does not simply presuppose more, but rather the consensus seems more of a pithy assertion concerning any fact of the matter. Continuing on, objectively valid knowledge claims are claims about things in the…

gained him a respectful popularity, James calls this radical empiricism (Hood 2002, p. 5) In his essay, Jason Blum (2015) contributes his interpretation of mysticism, more specifically radical empiricism, and how it can be used to understand a phenomenology of religion. The connection between James’s…

In this article, Moerer-Urdahl and Creswell (2004) talk about using a specific type phenomenological approach called transcendental phenomenology for exploring “ripple effect” in a mentoring program for leadership. They believe that transcendental phenomenology represents a set of philosophical assumptions with regard how to organize and analyze phenomenological data. At the core of this specific approach is its systematic and structural way for gathering and dealing with the qualitative data.…