Modes of Encounter

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Abstract
Two fundamental modes of human-being-in-the-world are distinguished. In the particulate mode engagement is with objects in their specificity. In the transcendent mode, which establishes the person in phenomenal union with the world, transactions are with qualities and conditions qua qualities and conditions. To each mode a distinctive field-character attaches, differing in the elements of articulatedness, continuity, and in the logic of event inclusion. Knowing in the transcendent mode is of oneness and proceeds through immediate apprehension. Certain transcendent encounters are in their possibility ontological in nature. Such define the compass of universal human experience. Interpretable as transcendent transactions are Maslow's “peak-experience” and Buber's “I-Thou” encounter.
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