Response Paper (2) Name: Kiki Mayasari NIM: 5031711007

Theory of Phenomenology

Phenomenology is a study about what the meaning of specific phenomena in peoples

experience to get the essence. Some people said that phenomenology just can use in
quantitative research, because there is phenomena which can see immediately. Actually,
phenomenology also can use in qualitative research such as literature. In literature
phenomenology aim to seek the meaning of phenomena based on character’s experience.
When we as researcher using phenomenology theory, it means we seek the meaning of
phenomena based on what the text say, not the readers think.

Historically, Husserls is the father of Phenomenology. According to Moran on Edmun

Husserls and Phenomenology (2013), Husserl (1859 – 1938) devoted his life to exhaustive
phenomenological investigations – employing a method that he essentially invented – that
offer some of the most sustained and radical discussions of central topics in the philosophy of
mind that can be found in twentieth-century philosophy. Although Husserls was a father of
phenomenology, Kant was the first philosopher who using the term of phenomenology. In
addition, there is philosopher of phenomenology except Husserls and Kant, such as Hegel
and Heidegger.

Husserls as cited in Moran, explain that the first thing we must do, and first of all in
immediate reflective self-experience, is to take the conscious life, completely without
prejudice, just as what it quite immediately gives itself, as itself, to be. From Husserls
statement, the author underlined two words that is prejudice and conscious. When we try to
reveal the meaning of phenomena based on phenomenology perspective, of course we must
to erase our prejudice and we must to conscious about what we seen in the phenomena itself.
In a nutshell, let the text or phenomena say what it is the truth itself.

Specifically, in this paper the author is going to explain a little bit of phenomenology
based on Husserls theory. Husserls has two methods when using phenomenological that is
noema and epoche. Usually, in research noema and epoche known as prefigured theme and
emergent theme. In noema, the researcher can guess the meaning of a phenomena based on
her/his argument. While in epoche, the researcher must be erase the all of his/her knowledge
about phenomena and let the phenomena talk the truth meaning.
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