A Heideggerian Phenomenological Perspective on the Concept of Person… Fundamental Reason

LEONARD, V.W. (1994) A Heideggerian Phenomenological Perspective on the Concept of Person. In: P. BENNER (Ed.), Interpretive Phenomenology: Embodiment, Caring, and Ethics in Heath and Illness. Sage Publications, Inc. pp43-64

“Thus to understand a person’s behaviour or expressions one has to study the person in context. For it is only in context that what a person values and finds significant shows up.” (p51)

Annotation:
The fundamental reason for choosing to develop a phenomenological methodology is expressed by Leonard, “to understand a person’s behaviour or expressions one has to study the person in context. For it is only in context that what a person values and finds significant shows up” (p51). The context of an experience gives the parameters of how the experience can be understood and interpreted to visualise the studied experience.