Phenomenology and existentialism are intertwined in modern philosophy, both concerned with human experience and perceptions of the world. Existentialism focuses on human existence, while phenomenology looks at how experiences shape one’s opinion of the world. Both philosophies overlap in the importance of assigning meaning to one’s life and experiencing that meaning. Although philosophers have often […]
Phenomenology extracts the fundamental essence of conscious experience. It originated from Husserl’s work and discusses intentionality and mind/body dualism. Today, empirical science has eroded phenomenology, but philosophy still helps define useful experiments. Phenomenology is a philosophical tendency that takes the intuitive sense of conscious experience – the ‘being’ of something – and attempts to extract […]
