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- At the heart of existentialist philosophy is the concept of ‘lived experience.’ This refers to the immediate and personal experiences that constitute our daily reality. It’s about the emotions, thoughts, and sensations that we encounter in the present moment, which shape our understanding of the world and ourselves.
Aug 9, 2023 · Existentialism and phenomenology offer distinct but interconnected perspectives on existence and experience. Existentialism emphasizes personal freedom, choice, and authenticity, arguing that individuals are responsible for creating their own values and meanings in life.
Jan 6, 2023 · Existentialism has had a profound impact on how philosophers conceptualize and understand the human condition, with rich accounts of affectivity and embodiment, facticity (or worldliness), and the ways in which we are constituted intersubjectively.
Feb 20, 2020 · A lived experience is not only something that is experienced, “its being experienced makes a special impression that gives it lasting importance” (Gadamer, 2004, p. 53). This hermeneutic conceptualization of lived experience shows the centrality of the meaning attributed to the experience.
- Julie Frechette, Vasiliki Bitzas, Monique Aubry, Kelley Kilpatrick, Mélanie Lavoie-Tremblay
- 2020
Dilthey's hermeneutic formula is· lived experience: the starting point and focus of human science; expression: the text or artifact as objectification of lived experience; and understanding: not a cognitive act but the moment when "life understands itself."
Existentialism is a philosophical movement that believes that the human existence cannot be completely described simply by rational, idealistic or scientific terms and that individual freedom, responsibility and experience are what define it.
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In coming to understand the world of lived experience, Van Manen (1997) offers for reflection the four lifeworld existentials of lived body, lived time, lived space, and lived human relations.
