This document discusses existentialism and phenomenology. It describes Carl Rogers' view of a fully functioning person as being open to experience, living existentially, trusting feelings, being creative, and finding fulfillment. It also mentions Abraham Maslow. The document then discusses existentialist thought and some key phenomenological philosophers like Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Finally, it examines phenomenology and hermeneutics through the lens of Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Paul Ricoeur.

1. EXISTENTIALISM IN
MODERN LIFE

2. CARL ROGERS

3. A FULLY FUNCTIONING PERSON
1. Open to experience
2. Existential living
3. Trust feelings
4. Creativity
5. Fulfilled life

4. ABRAHAM MASLOW

5. ABRAHAM MASLOW

6. ABRAHAM MASLOW

7. EXTENTIALISM
•Extentialists thought that the tragic
side of life more nearly illustrates
human existence.

8. P H E N O M E N O L O G I C A L P H I L O S O P H E R
A N D T H E I R T H O U G H T

9. EDMUND HUSSERL
-To use phenomenology to
help make philosophy into a
rigorous science .
-Back to the things
themselves.
-Phenomenological reduction

10. MARTIN HEIDEGGER
•Phenomenology was the science of
being
•A past is oriented toward a future

11. MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY
•Primacy of perception.
•Facticity cannot be escaped.
•Perception is immediate and
prereflective.

12. PHENOMENOLOGY
AND
HERMENEUTICS

13. : MARTIN HEIDEGGER
: HANS GEORGE GADAMEERR
:PAUL RICOEUR

14. MARTIN HEIDEGGER
•'In speaking about something, the Dasein
speakings
itself out, expresses itself being-in-the-world,
dwelling with and occupying itself with beings.'

15. HANS GEORGE GADAMER
•''Hermeneutics is primarily of use were
making clear to others and making clear to
oneself has become blocked''

16. PAUL RICOEUR
•Language is the medium of reveal
self-understanding