~angular view.~ An individual's unique vision of reality necessarily
restricted by the angle of his particular here and now.
~authenticity.~ Genuineness; congruence with the self.
~(the) between.~ The realm of the intersubjective.
~bracket.~ Hold in abeyance.
~community.~ Two or more persons struggling together toward a center.
~existential.~ Of, relating to, or affirming existence; grounded in
existence or the experience of living.
~existential dialogue.~ A unique individual person with the wholeness of
his being is present, open to, and relates to the other seen in his
unique individual wholeness; an exchange in which two persons transcend
themselves and participate in the other's being; an interior
unification; a mutual common union in being.
~existential experience.~ Contact with reality with the whole of one's
being; involves all that a man _is_ as opposed to experiencing through
one or several faculties.
~existentialism.~ Philosophy based on phenomenological studies of
reality; centers on the analysis of existence particularly of the
individual human being, stresses the freedom and responsibility of the
individual, regards human existence as not completely describable or
understandable in idealistic or scientific terms.
~here and now.~ An individual's unique experience of his present spatial
and temporal reality including his past experiences and expectations of
the future.
~humanistic nursing.~ A theory and practice that rest on an existential
philosophy, value experiencing and the evolving of the "new," and aim at
phenomenological description of the art-science of nursing viewed as a
lived intersubjective transactional experience; nursing seen within its
human context.
~intersubjective.~ Pertaining to two or more human persons and their
shared between; a relationship of two or more human beings in which each
is the originator of human acts and responses. {122}
~lived dialogue.~ A form of existential intersubjective relating
expressed in being with and doing with the other who is regarded as a
presence (as opposed to an object); a lived call and response.
~lived world.~ The everyday world as it is experienced in the here and
now.
~metanursing.~ A discipline designed to deal critically with nursing,
ontological study of nursing; study of the phenomenon of nursing; a
critical study of nursing within its human context.
~metatheoretical.~ Transcending theory; ontological inquiry from which
theory may be derived.
~nursology.~ Study of the phenomenon of nursing aimed toward the
development of nursing theory.
~phenomenology.~ The descriptive study of phenomena.
~phenomenon.~ An observable fact, event, occurrence or circumstance; an
appearance or immediate object of awareness in experience. A phenomenon
may be objective (that is, external to the person aware of it) or
subjective (for example, a thought or feeling).
~prereflective experience.~ Primary awareness or perception of reality
not yet thought about; spontaneous experience; immediate experience or
perception.
~presence.~ A mode of being available or open in a situation with the
wholeness of one's unique individual being; a gift of the self which can
only be given freely, invoked, or evoked.
~transactional.~ An aware knowing of one's effect in a situation of
which one is a part; an action that goes both ways between persons.
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