In empowerment, first-person perspective systems analysis (1ppSA) is a theoretical alternative to the conventional SA, since dissipative theory and others suggest that innovative ideas occur internally. Our previous research revealed that the basic theory of 1ppSA is phenomenology. For building the foundation of 1ppSA, we investigate whether it is possible to use Activity Theory (AT) as diagram...

In this paper, I address the what, the how, and the why of moral phenomenology. I consider first the question What is moral phenomenology?, secondly the question How to pursue moral phenomenology?, and thirdly the question Why pursue moral phenomenology? My treatment of these questions is preliminary and tentative, and is meant not so much to settle them as to point in their answers’ direction.

A common view of early twentieth century philosophy correctly distinguishes three movements or tendencies, phenomenology, pragmatism and the beginnings of analytic philosophy, and claims that early phenomenology and pragmatism are two radically opposed philosophical positions. Early phenomenology, it is said, is in the tradition of the logical objectivisms of Bolzano and Frege. It is only with ...

In the introduction to the third and last volume of his Philosophy of Symbolic Forms of 1929, entitled " Phenomenology of Knowledge, " Ernst Cassirer remarks that the meaning in which he employs the term 'phenomenology' is Hegelian rather than according to " the modern usage of the term. " 1 What sense can it make, then, to invoke Edmund Husserl's phenomenology in this context? Yet if, roughly ...