Husserlian

Phenomenology
Objectives:
At the end of this session, the students are expected to:
1. Recognize the value of doing phenomenological
reduction in attaining the unity of their experiences.
2. Differentiate the phenomenological attitude from the
natural attitude.
3. Write a reflection paper using Husserl’s Transcendental
Phenomenological Reduction.
Edmund Husserl
• German Philosopher
• Founder of the
phenomenological movement.
• In 1913, he published ideas:
A General Introduction to
Pure Phenomenology, which
set into motion a new school
of thought that has
influenced many until today.
Phenomenology
• Comes from the Greek words “phainomenon” which means
appearance, and “logos” whish means study.
• “study of phenomenon”
• Phenomenon: means anything that exists of which the mind
is conscious.
Phenomenology
• Claims that “every consciousness is consciousness of
something.”
• It makes us see every phenomenon or object in a
true and purified meaning.
• A philosophical theory which believes that the
essence of every object can be thought of,
investigated, and understood, more than the usual
way of understanding it.
• “back to the things themselves”
Husserl’s Transcendental-
Phenomenological Reduction

• A phenomenological description of reflection

• Suspension of the natural attitude to allow
experience to reveal its meaning without biases.
2 approaches in the reduction
1. Cartesian doubt: to question all presuppositions of human
experience.
2. Logic: to question the presupposition of judging, validity and
truth.

We begin to question what we had previously taken for

granted.
CHANGE OF ATTITUDE (einstellung)
Change of Attitude (Einstellung)
2 Cognitive attitudes:
1. Natural Attitude:
The judgment we render about things.
2. Transcendental Attitude:
Directing our consciousness to investigate the essence of
every phenomenon.
The Change of Attitude (Einstellung)
• The phenomenological method
• Act of bracketing the objective world.
• Detaching the natural beliefs in the existence of what I
experience.
• Giving the world a different value.
TRANSCENDENTAL
• It uncovers every meaning and existence in an experience

PHENOMENOLOGICAL

• It transforms the world into e mere phenomenon

REDUCTION
• The suspension of all natural belief in the objects of
experience. (Epoche)
• Reducing the natural world to a world of phenomenon
ACTIVITY 1
• In a ½ crosswise, make a reflection paper using Husserl’s
Transcendental Phenomenological Reduction.
• Choose an experience or a situation where you need to apply
the phenomenological method or the transcendental
attitude.
• Your reflection should include an experience, an approach in
dealing the experience, and an explanation of the approach
in the experience.