// Conceptual Positions
Phenomenological Position
6 topics
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Is Entering a Café Alone the Same Place as Entering with Someone?
The identity of place is determined by 'lived experience.' The tranquil time alone and the lively conversation with someone produce entirely different 'appearances of place' bodily and emotionally. Even in the same physical space, the mode of the experiencing subject transforms the place.
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If You Were to Name Your Favorite Café, What Would It Be?
The act of giving a name is fixing the 'encounter' with a place in words. By having a name, that store emerges from mere background into a 'place with meaning' and is deeply engraved in the experiential world of the self.
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How Is the Sensation Entering Through the Ears Different from Other Sensations?
Auditory sensation uniquely creates an experience of being enveloped. Sound always penetrates the body and cannot be escaped even with eyes closed, thereby conveying direct intimacy of another's presence.
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Why Do We Feel Attachment to Inanimate Matter
Encounter with a stone allows direct experience of the "thing's" existence. Touching it discloses the stone's "way of being".
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About the bodily sensation after getting out of the hot spring water
The post-bath sensation is the moment the body reconstructs its boundary with the world. The transition from heat to cold makes one newly feel the relationship between self and environment. Merleau-Ponty's 'perception of the body' manifests here.
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What Kind of Time Is Spent Gazing at Stones?
Time spent gazing at stones is pure conscious time that stays deeply in the 'here and now'. It possesses the thickness of experience itself, liberated from clock time.