Phenomenology is one of the most important and influential movements in contemporary philosophy, and yet it is also among the most difficult for the uninitiated to understand. My goal in this video is to introduce three basic principles of phenomenological philosophy of an ontological, epistemological, and methodological nature. The ontological principle asserts that consciousness is the arena of the self-disclosure of being. The epistemological principle asserts that knowledge is the achievement of judgment-evidence. The methodological principle holds that judgment-evidence can be achieved by means of the phenomenological reduction. By way of conclusion, I illustrate the phenomenological reduction and clarify the transcendental structure of world-experience.
Dr. Steven Nemes received his PhD in Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary. His dissertation, titled “A constructive-theological phenomenology of Scripture,” was passed with distinction by Profs. Oliver Crisp, Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, and Fr. John Behr. He has published a number of articles on a diversity of subjects in peer reviewed academic journals such as Journal of Analytic Theology, Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion, Heythrop Journal, and Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie.