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5 4 3
COLLABORATION Students Students Students work
contributed contributed very little
greatly enough

STAYING ON TASK Students stayed Students stayed Students stayed

on task the on task MOST of on task SOME of
ENTIRE time the time the time

COMPLETION OF Students Students Students

TASK completed the completed task completed MOST
task with FULL with REQUIRED of task
effort amount of effort
*Phenomenology:
Edmund Husserl

Looking beyond things

Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl
8 April 1859 – 27 April 1938
a German philosopher who established the school of phenomenology

In his early work, he elaborated critiques of

historicism and of psychologism in logic based on
analyses of intentionality. In his mature work, he
sought to develop a systematic foundational science
based on the so-called phenomenological reduction.
 Arguing that transcendental
consciousness sets the limits of all
possible knowledge, Husserl re-
defined phenomenology as a
transcendental-idealist philosophy.
Husserl's thought profoundly
influenced the landscape of twentieth-
century philosophy, and he remains a
notable figure in contemporary
philosophy and beyond.
 *What is
Phenomenology?
 The reflective study of how
things appear to our conscious
awareness -
And ultimately how the world
appears to us in terms of our
subjective experiences.
 In other words…
It is reflecting upon our
experience to gain some
understanding of its underlying
order and coherence
*Phenomenological Method
Three Parts of PM:
1. Epoché
2. Eidetic Reduction
3. Phenomenological
Transcendental Reduction
*German: Einklammerung
*describing the act of suspending
judgment about the natural
world to instead focus on
analysis of experience.

*
*It is the bracketing of the
prejudices, biases, and any
natural experiences of a particular
subject to its object. Indeed, it is
a suspension of judgments and
prejudices in order to get and
extract its very essence.

*
*PENCIL
*Mongol – HBW – other brands
*May pencil na mahaba, may pencil
na maiksi
*May pencil na yellow, black, green,
etc etc

*
*Eidos = ESSENCE
*Eidetic reduction is a form
of imaginative variation by which
one attempts to reduce
phenomenon into its necessary
essences.

*
*The basic steps of an eidetic reduction
are threefold: first, choose some specific
example. Then, vary the example
imaginatively. The third step involves
figuring out that which cannot be
eliminated while the example remains
itself. That which cannot be eliminated
is part of the example's essence.

*
*PENCIL: what is the essence of pencil
*Pansulat
*pambura
*May lead
*Hindi sya pencil kung walang lead

*
*Husserl characterizes this as a
reduction to “pure”
consciousness, that is, to
intentionality purified of all
psychological, all “worldly”
interpretations and described
simply as it gives itself.
*
*What shows up in the natural attitude as
simply there for me - the hammer I use,
the rope I notice in the corner - now
comes into view as a unity of meaning (a
pure “phenomenon”) that is what it is
precisely because of its place in the
nexus of intentional acts and
experiences in which it comes to
givenness.
*
*The transcendental reduction thus
allows phenomenology to study the
intentional constitution of things - that
is, the conditions that make possible not
the existence of entities in the world
(the issue of existence has been
bracketed), but their sense as existing,
and indeed their being given as anything
at all.
*
* Guide Question:
* What is the role of pencil in your life?
* What are the developments/improvements in
your life because of your PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
of the PENCIL?
* What is your life right now with the help of your
experience with the pencil.
* SIMPLY REFLECT ON THE ESSENCE OF THE PENCIL
then RELATE IT WITH YOUR LIFE

*
 *
*1-3. Name the 3 parts of
phenomenology
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4. Who is the philosopher that
started phenomenology?
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5. Phenomenology focuses on
the human_____________