SEM. DARIO N.

CAYLAN
AB- PHILO/2ND SEMESTER
Existentialism/Phenomenology
DATE: JANUARY 17, 2022/ 1st activity
(MTH4 :00-5:30)
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1. Differentiate Existentialism and Phenomenology
2. In what branch/es of Philosophy we can encounter this subject?
3. why do we have to learn this topics in our life?
Answer:
1. Differentiate Existentialism and Phenomenology
In my own understanding, Phenomenology is study of the structures of
experience and consciousness. It is somehow a technique that contains a thorough
explanation of the areas of human life as to how it is being lived. In deeper meaning
Phenomenology is a way thought, a method an open and ever-renewed experience
having different results, and this may disorient anyone wishing to define the meaning of
phenomenology. While Existentialism deriving its insights from phenomenology, is the
philosophical attitude that views human life from the inside rather than pretending to
understand it from an outside, "objective" point-of-view.
It is a form of philosophical inquiry that explores the problem of human
existence and centres on the experience of thinking, feeling, and acting.[3][4] In the
view of the existentialist, the individual's starting point has been called "the existential
angst", a sense of dread, disorientation, confusion, or anxiety in the face of an
apparently meaningless or absurd world.[5] Existentialist thinkers frequently explore
issues related to the meaning, purpose, and value of human existence.
2. In what branch/es of Philosophy we can encounter this subject?
Phenomenology is a broad discipline and method of inquiry in philosophy,
developed largely by the German philosophers Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger,
which is based on the premise that reality consists of objects and events ("phenomena")
as they are perceived or understood in the human consciousness, and not of anything
independent of human consciousness.
 It can be considered a branch of Metaphysics and of Philosophy of Mind, although many
of its proponents claim that it is related to, but distinct from, the other key disciplines in
philosophy (Metaphysics, Epistemology, Logic and Ethics), and that it represents more a
distinct way of looking at philosophy which has repercussions on all of these other
fields. It has been argued that it differs from other branches of philosophy in that it
tends to be more descriptive than prescriptive. It is only distantly related to the
epistemological doctrine of Phenomenalism (the theory that physical objects do not
exist as things in themselves but only as perceptual phenomena or bundles of sense-
data situated in time and in space).

3. WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO STUDY THIS KIND OF SUBJECT IN OUR LIFE?

We could always appreciate that each of human beings is a unique animals because we
are a rational being and others that are beyond what animals can do. According to Douglas
Adams Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience
of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
In this sense Phenomenology helps us to understand the meaning of people's lived
experience. A phenomenological study explores what people experienced and focuses on their
experience of a phenomena.
And expert says, despite the fact that humans are one of few animals who can learn
from the experiences of others, we are often loath to do so. Perhaps this is because we assume
that similar circumstances could never befall us. Perhaps this is because we assume that, if
placed in the same situation, we would make wiser decisions. Perhaps it is because we assume
the subjective experience of an individual is not as reliably informative as objective data
collected from external reality. Regardless of the assumptions grounding this apprehension, it is
essential for scholars to learn from the experiences of others.