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Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars

Period of Performance

9/1/1975 - 8/31/1976

Funding Totals

$14,000.00 (approved)
$14,000.00 (awarded)

The Study of Phenomenology as a Humanizing Discipline

FAIN: FB-12506-75

Robert R. Williams
Hiram College (Hiram, OH 44234-3409)

" To study phenomenology as a humanizing discipline and its application to religion. To concentrate on the current work of Paul Ricoeur. Some of the questions to be answered are: To what extent can a phenomenology of the will serve as a non-reductive hermeneutical tool in the study of the symbols and myths of religion? Does Ricoeur's phenomenology itself run the danger of abstracting from Transcendence or the religious relation?