ABSTRACT
In ecophenomenology, the notion of Cultural Framework (CF) is primarily traceable to Martin Heidegger and Edmund Husserl, this despite the fact that each philosopher held a differing view and practice of phenomenology. The influence of the CF is comprehensive and grand in scope, and as Lester Embree argues, includes the cultural science of the environment, aesthetic-recreational or valuational environmentalism, and practical-political types of environmental encounters. The influence of the CF works in a tacit manner, but might be made explicit through the practice of phenomenology/ecophenomenology when examining and interpreting praxis, specifically focused on the ways in which interact with nature in the original “embodied” mode of immersed-intentional comportment. The natural attitude is a “commonsense” mode of world-disclosure or context of revelation, which is always permeated by epistemological and metaphysical assumptions that are linked to the views of both the natural and the technological sciences.
