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PHENOMENOLOGY
◦ Late Latin
phænomenon, "that
which appears or is
seen,”

◦ Greek logos,”the study

of.”
Martin Heidegger
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 PHENOMENOLOGY
Definition

Method of investigating or inquiring into the

meanings of our experiences as we live them.

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 PHENOMENOLOGY

Phenomenology turns inwards to investigate

human reflection, consciousness, and subjectivity;
and poses the question of how a particular
experience stands out to become significant

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 PHENOMENOLOGY
Properties

1. Phenomenological statements are non-empirical

2. Phenomenological statements are descriptive
3. Phenomenological statements describe a
phenomena

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EXISTENTIALISM
◦ Danish existents-
forhold ‘condition of
existence’

Jean Paul Sartre

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 EXISTENTIALISM
Definition
A philosophical theory or approach which
emphasizes the existence of the individual person as
a free and responsible agent determining their own
development through acts of the will

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 EXISTENTIALISM
Kierkegaard’s Stage of existential
life experience

1. Aesthetic – non-committal intellectual pursuit

2. Ethical – more complex desires and commitments
3. Religious – attainment of something profound

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 EXISTENTIALISM
Sartre’s Existential Philosophy

1. There is no fundamental meaning to life

2. Existence precedes essence
3. Authentic Existence

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 Synthesis of
Phenomenology and
Existentialism &
Implications to Education

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◦ Education must be
viewed as a continuous
process with no end. It Place your screenshot here

is a continuous process
of creating himself.

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◦ To think existentially is
to think with inward
passion. The highest Place your screenshot here

expression of truth and

subjectivity is passion.

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◦ Education has to be
anthropocentric or
man-centered because
existential – Place your screenshot here

phenomenologists are
by nature philosophers
of man

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◦ Existential-
phenomenologists Place your screenshot here

emphasize the
freedom of man

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◦ Existential-
phenomenologists
emphasize authentic Place your screenshot here

existence rather than

inauthentic existence

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◦ Existential-
phenomenologists
theorize that man is Place your screenshot here

more of an actor rather

than spectator.

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“EXISTENCE PRECEDES ESSENCE”

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 THANK YOU
FOR LISTENING
Prepared by:
Nil Edward F. Panuelos
Prime Rose Teodulice M. Lanete
Wang Jing

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