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Tag: phenomenology

Finding place, shifting perception: From landscape as image to landscape as cosmology

Posted on June 22, 2022January 13, 2023 by flourishingcommons

While we cannot physically transform the world in 10 days, we can change the way we see the world in 10 days. Shifting the perception of landscapes is the first

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Finding truth in the “Void” through Chinese landscape painting

Posted on June 15, 2022January 13, 2023 by flourishingcommons

When I first went back to school to study the meaning of landscapes instead of designing landscapes, I was disappointed by what I discovered. I was told that landscapes were

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Heidegger’s hermeneutic circle: What is the meaning of art?

Posted on June 8, 2022January 13, 2023 by flourishingcommons

In part 2 of this 3 part blog post series, I showed how Martin Heidegger considers things as essential markers of our existential relationship with the world. His way of

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The poetry of things…according to Martin Heidegger

Posted on June 1, 2022January 13, 2023 by flourishingcommons

In part 1 of this 3 part blog post series, I used quotes from Martin Heidegger’s Poetry, Language, Thought to portray the idea of dwelling poetically. Part of dwelling poetically

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To dwell poetically…according to Martin Heidegger

Posted on May 25, 2022January 13, 2023 by flourishingcommons

I resonate a lot with Martin Heidegger’s philosophy because he recognized the connections between time, existence, and being human.  Therefore, he has been my go-to philosopher for existential phenomenology. Although

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Ways of seeing the world: The relationship between subject and object

Posted on May 18, 2022February 1, 2023 by flourishingcommons

While famous philosophers such as Husserl, Heidegger, or Merleau-Ponty took different phenomenological approaches to understanding and structuring methods of studying human experience, phenomenology as an everyday concept can still feel

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Introduction to phenomenology for environmental design

Posted on May 11, 2022January 13, 2023 by flourishingcommons

“Experience” is important because experience is the basic unit of our existence. Despite the unlimited potential of what we can experience, our awareness of how we experience, however, is constrained

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This blog consists of musings I have about the world, excerpts from my PhD dissertation, and re-postings of articles from a previous blog. I mainly write about spirituality, landscape, art, and philosophy.

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