Phenomenon

A phenomenon ( formation terminology also phaenomenon, plural phenomena / phenomena, from Ancient Greek φαινόμενον fainómenon, one to Show end, a Appearing ' back ) is in epistemology a perceptible by the senses, identifiable unit of experience, such as event, an empirical object or a natural phenomenon. Deviating not the perceived, but their actual perception itself is known as a phenomenon sometimes. The corresponding German term is appearance.

In common usage, especially exceptional phenomena are called phenomena.

Kant, Hegel, Husserl

The term was originally used for any type of publication, only for air appearances, but then transferred by the philosophers, especially skeptics, on the metaphysics and in relation to what appears to the senses, as opposed to in terms of what is thought ( noumena ) applied.

Immanuel Kant provides phenomenon and thing against itself. While the thing is inaccessible to the experience and knowledge, it affected but the sensuality of the sensations obtained in this way constructed consciousness the Phänomenona as representations. The thing in itself is only indirectly, through them, the object of knowledge, it is only us as a noumenon, as mentally assumed cause of our sensations, deliberately. Since the subject for yourself is a noumenon, the phenomena are real for Kant's philosophy.

The part of the theory of nature that determines the motion or rest of the matter merely as such a manifestation of the external senses, Kant calls phenomenology. Hegel also takes in a similar sense to this expression when he in his gradual approach education to the age in itself being called the representation of the modes of the mind a Phenomenology of Spirit.

Edmund Husserl developed a phenomenology which, although in the paradigm of the phenomenon is based as the access to the things themselves, but takes a strong transcendental turn.