Phenomenology: The Spirituality of Objects

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This paper examines phenomenology, which is the spiritual abstraction of objects. The author explores how phenomenology relies on people to assign an object a particular level of significance or meaning. The paper proceeds to make the distinction that phenomenology is an intellectual rather than a physical process as it is a perceptive discipline that relies on a person's will or intention to assign a symbolic meaning or significance to an object, separating it from its inanimate, meaningless state.

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"Some have characterized phenomenology as a spiritual abstraction of objects, or phenomena. Phenomenons are unquantifiable objects by nature. Thus, the phenomenon of objects is the object in its most abstracted form, whereby it is recognized as having a spiritual content that is ultimately validated by the value that the human finds in it and attaches to specific objects. Phenomenology has its basis in humanism, as it ultimately relies on humans to assess the abstractness of objects and to give them meaning by identifying them as phenomena, that is, things that say nothing and have no meaning until a human being ascribes, recognizes and attaches specific meaning to it thereof."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Merleau-Ponty. Phenomenology of Perception Routledge; 2 edition (May 3, 2002)
• Moran, Dermot. Introduction to Phenomenology. Cambridge University Press (October 28, 1999)
• Sokolowski, Robert. Introduction to Phenomenology. Routledge; 1 edition (February 3, 2000)

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