THE ORIGINS OF LIFE

VOLUME II

THE ORIGINS OF THE EXISTENTIAL SHARING-IN-LIFE

ANALECTA HUSSERLIANA

THE YEARBOOK OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH

VOLUME LXVII

Editor-in-Chief:

ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA

The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning

Belmont, Massachusetts

THE ORGINS OF LIFE THE ORIGINS OF THE

EXISTENTIAL SHARING-IN-LIFE

Edited by

ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA

The World Phenomenology Institute

Published under the auspices of The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning

A-T. Tymieniecka, President

SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.

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ISBN 978-94-010-5786-8 ISBN 978-94-011-4058-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-4058-4

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INAUGURAL ESSAY

ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA / The Origins of Life: The Existential Senses of Sharing-in-Life - Vital, Societal,

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Creative - a Radically Novel Platform 3

SECTION I TRANSITIONS OF SENSE: FROM THE VIT AL TOWARDS THE

EXISTENTIAL/SOCIETAL SHARING-IN-LIFE

MIECZYSLAW PAWEL MIGON / Logos and Ethos in the Thought of Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka: The Aspect of "Beginning" 15

JOHANN EV. HAFNER / In Defense of a Moth. The Search for Foundations of Environmental Ethics 29

ANGELA ALES BELLO / Life, Person, Responsibility 43 LESZEK PYRA / Values Within Relations 55 ROBERT D. SWEENEY / Creativity and Everyday Life -

Ricoeur's Aesthetics 65

SECTION II

THE SURGING OF THE INTENTIONAL PLATFORM OF LIFE

PIOTR MR6z / The Human Arts and the Natural Laws of Bios: Return to Consciousness 79

VLADISLA V BORODULIN and ALEXEI V ASILIEV / The Phenomenon of Loneliness and the Meta-Theory of Consciousness 89

MARIA ZOWISLO / Jung's Concept of Individuation and the Problem of Alienation 95

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J. J. VENTER / "Human Dignity" as "Rationality" - The Development of a Conception 111

MAREK PYKA / On Emotion and Self-Determination in Max Scheler and Antoni K~pinski 143

ALBERTO CARILLO CAN AN / The Paradoxical Transformation of Existence: On Kierkegaard's Concept of Individuation 153

VELGA VEVERE / Multiple Persons in Kierkegaard's Pseudonymous Authorship 167

SECTION III

THE EMERGENCE OF THE CREATIVE SPHERE OF SHARING-IN-LIFE

MARIA AVELINA CECILIA / Human Existence as a Creative Process: A Commentary on Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka's Anthropological Reflection 183

R.A.KURENKOVA,Y.A.PLEKHANOV,E.Y.ROGACHEVA

and 1. LATYSHEV A / The Methodologies of Life, Self-Individualization and Creativity in the Educational Process 195

DIANE G. SCILLIA / Stimuli to Invention: New Technologies, New Audiences, New Images 207

CHRISTINE BERTHOLD / Stefan Zweig and His Literary Biographies 219

JOANNA SLOSARSKA / The Artistic Event in the Space of Life as an Effect of the Interaction of Instincts, Feelings, Images and Spiritual Transcendence 227

RIHARDS KULIS / Reflections on the Everlasting and the Transient or the Road to the "Freed Field of Light" 243

EUGENIUSZ SZUMAKOWICZ / Death and Ontology 257 T AKAKO SHIKA Y A / Sein als "Position" und Ereignis: Kants

These tiber das Sein und Heidegger 265

SECTION IV

THE SPIRIT OF CREATIVITY SOARING TOWARDS THE SENSE OF

BEAUTY AND TRANSCENDENCE

MARLIES KRONEGGER / Chinese Gardens: The Relation of Man to Nature in Seventeenth-Century French Culture 287

QINGPING LIU / Life: The True, the Good and the Beautiful: A Comparative Study of Greek and Pre-Qin Philosophies 323

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MARC VAN DEN BOSSCHE I Towards an Aesthetics of Nature: Merleau-Ponty's Embodied Ontology 339

IGNACY S. FIUT I Ontology and Poetry: The Principles of Being of Creation 357

EDYTA SUPINSKA-POLIT I Heaven's Angels with Grinding Organs: John Ruskin's Idea of Life 363

JOZEF SIVAK I Du Mortel a l'Impossible Eternel: La Transcendance de la Mort 369

SECTION V

TIME, WORLD, AND HERMENEUTICS

CHRISTER BJURVILL I The Phenomenon of the Future as It was Constituted by Kierkegaard, Husserl and Heidegger 391

ALEKSANDRA PAWLISZYN I Time as Viewed by Husserl and Heidegger 415

JIM I. UNAH I Postmodernism is Existential Phenomenology 427 PRZEMYSEA W GULDA I Postmodernism as a Completion of

Phenomenology and Hermeneutics 445 TADEUSZ BUKSINSKI I The Human Being in the Liberal-

Democratic Epoch 467 ANSIS ZUNDE I Six Para-Philosophical Exercises in Latvian

Euro(onto)poiesis 477

INDEX OF NAMES 499

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This second volume of the studies from our second International Congress of PhenomenologylPhilosophy of Life and the Science of Life is essen­tially a thematic continuation of the first. However, it stands on its own in that it presents the further phases of the origination of the sense of life as self-prompted and as instituting autonomous spheres of the specif­ically human life.

Held at the Politechnical University in Gdansk, Poland, the Congress benefitted from the support and collaboration of the Organization Committee, formed at the Department of Administration and Economics by professors Dr. hab. Adam Pawlak, Boleslaw Garback, Franciszek Blawat and led by the President, Dr. hab. Piotr Dominiak (Dean) and the Secretary General, Dr. Mieczyslaw Migon. To all of them, and par­ticularly to Dr. hab. Alexander Kolodziejczyk, the Rector of the Politechnical University who accepted the honorary presidency of the Congress, I want to express on behalf of the Institute our warmest thanks. The indefatigable dedication of Dr. Migon, who attended to even the smallest details to make this venture a success, is particularly appreci­ated.

And what a success it was! Its echo still resounds around the world through our old and new collaborators who convened in Gdansk to discuss, debate, and forward these pioneering programs of ours to all parts of the globe. Naturally, they deserve our highest gratitude.

We thank all those who contributed to our comfort during the con­ference, including the University's authorities, the M.E.N.S.A. students and their dormitories, and the Polish soft drink company NATA, who treated us to their delicious products.

Finally, let me express, as usual, my thanks to Isabelle Houthakker and Robert S. Wise for their expert copy-editing, as well as to my assis­tants Jeff Hurlburt and Louis T. Houthakker for their dedicated help in organizing this volume.

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