Eidetic Analysis of Life
Phenomenology is the study of conciousness and how we perceive our experiences. The core of an experience is the intention of the experience, the end goal with which the experience is aimed, regarding its content or meaning. We base our experiences on our first person perspective, how it translates to us and what it means outside our perception or the bigger picture, i.e A rock is just a solid object to me, it is insignificant to my experience as far as my perception goes but in the bigger picture, the rock is useful to humans for the construction of cities or other objects that have a significant effect on our experience. In the even bigger picture, over a long period of time the rock can be compressed with other rocks to form boulders or mountains. It serves a purpose with intention, regardless of it being aware or not.
So when we study things, we base our conclusions on the already established truth of these …show more content…
However, these patterns are not conceptual abstractions. They do not belong to existing theories or philosophies. Instead, these themes are the working material for phenomenological writing.
To analyse life we need to look at life for what it is, at least according to popular consensus. We need to look at life from two different but defining angles. The forms of life, and the ways of life. The phenomenological questions like the intention or purpose of life must succeed these questions because we must first understand life from what we definitively know already, from what we undoubtedly cannot
Phenomenology is the study of conciousness and how we perceive our experiences. The core of an experience is the intention of the experience, the end goal with which the experience is aimed, regarding its content or meaning. We base our experiences on our first person perspective, how it translates to us and what it means outside our perception or the bigger picture, i.e A rock is just a solid object to me, it is insignificant to my experience as far as my perception goes but in the bigger picture, the rock is useful to humans for the construction of cities or other objects that have a significant effect on our experience. In the even bigger picture, over a long period of time the rock can be compressed with other rocks to form boulders or mountains. It serves a purpose with intention, regardless of it being aware or not.
So when we study things, we base our conclusions on the already established truth of these …show more content…
However, these patterns are not conceptual abstractions. They do not belong to existing theories or philosophies. Instead, these themes are the working material for phenomenological writing.
To analyse life we need to look at life for what it is, at least according to popular consensus. We need to look at life from two different but defining angles. The forms of life, and the ways of life. The phenomenological questions like the intention or purpose of life must succeed these questions because we must first understand life from what we definitively know already, from what we undoubtedly cannot