Concept

Lived experience

Overview

personal knowledge, understanding, and perspectives gained through direct, first-hand involvement in everyday events, rather than through secondhand information, formal study, or representations constructed by others

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Lived experience

• Leonard Lawlor

Related ideas

• Feminist epistemology
• Sage Publishing
• Qualitative research
• Natural science
• Wiley-Blackwell
• Oxford University Press
• Wilhelm Dilthey
• Phenomenology (philosophy)
• Human science
• Routledge

Place in the tradition

Part of Phenomenology (philosophy).

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