Human Life-World in Toponyms: APhilosophical Understanding of Life Space
Journal: Ukrainian geographical journal
Year: 2026

From a philosophical perspective, it is considered how a person ascribes meaning to their living space, transforming it into a life-world. The study aims to identify the philosophical foundations of toponymy by clarifying the significance of the concepts of “life-world” and “life space” for the formation of a geographical approach to describing the world. The research methods are social phenomenology (understanding of the life-world in the philosophy of Edmund Husserl, Alfred Schütz, and Bernhar