[4] Plato, _The Republic_, trans. Francis MacDonald Cornford (New York: Oxford University Press, 1945), p. 45. [5] James Agee, _Let Us Now Praise Famous Men_ (New York: Ballantine Books, 1939), pp. 91-102. [6] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "On Originality." In _Great Writings of Goethe_, ed. Stephen Spender (New York: Mentor Press, 1958), p. 45. [7] C. G. Jung, _Modern Man in Search of a Soul_, trans. W. S. Dell and Cary F. Baynes (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1933), p. 118. [8] Henri Bergson, "Time in the History of Western Philosophy," in _Philosophy in the Twentieth Century_, ed. William Barrett and Henry D. Aiken (New York: Random House, 1962), p. 252. [9] Will Durant and Ariel Durant, _Lessons of History_ (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968), p. 102. [10] Hermann Hesse, _Demian_, trans. Michael Roloff and Michael Lebeck (New York: Harper & Row, 1965), p. 4. [11] Martin Buber, _Between Man and Man_, trans. Ronald Gregor Smith (Boston: Beacon Press, 1955), p. 93. [12] Bertrand Russell, _The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, 1914-1944_ (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1968), p. 97. [13] Frederick Nietzsche "Thus Spake Zarathustra," trans. Thomas Common, in _The Philosophy of Nietzsche_ (New York: Random House, 1927), p. 239. [14] Henri Bergson, "An Introduction to Metaphysics," in _Philosophy in the Twentieth Century_, ed. William Barrett and Henry D. Aiken (New York: Random House, 1962), pp. 303-331. [15] John Dewey, _How We Think_ (Boston: D. C. Heath & Co., Publishers, 1910), p. 105. [16] Martin Buber, "Distance and Relation," trans. Ronald Gregor Smith, in _The Knowledge of Man_, ed. Maurice Friedman. (New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1965), pp. 60-82. [17] Bergson, "_An Introduction to Metaphysics_," pp. 303-331. [18] Martin Buber, _I and Thou_, 2nd ed., trans. Ronald Gregor Smith, (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958). pp. 3-34. [19] W. D. Desan, _Planetary Man_ (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1972), p. 77. [20] _Ibid._ [21] _Ibid._, p. 80. {76} {77} 7 A PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH TO HUMANISTIC NURSING THEORY Humanistic nursing is dialogical in the theoretical as well as the practical realm. Just as the meaning of humanistic nursing is found in the existential intersubjective act, that is, in the dialogue as it is lived out by nurse and patient in the real world, so the theory of humanistic nursing is formed, in the dialogical interplay of articulated experiences shared by searching, abstracting, conceptualizing nurses. The theory of humanistic nursing originates from and is continually revitalized and refined by actual nursing experience. But each nurse, as a unique human being, necessarily experiences the nursing dialogue and her nursing world in a unique way. So the development of humanistic nursing theory rests on the sharing of individual unique angular views. And the theory as a totality will become richer, more consonant with reality, as it represents more and more nurses' views.