Creative Virtualities in Human Self-Interpretation-in-Culture: Phenomenology of Life and the Human Creative Condition (Book IV) (Analecta Husserliana 55)

It would seem that modern humanity has unthroned the human spirit, undercutting the very foundation of the validity of truth, moral values and principles. There appears to be no attempt to discern what is beautiful and true: it is functional and pragmatic usefulness that seem to dominate human evaluations and transactions with other humans and, indeed, animals. Humanity is becoming detached from the `higher' aesthetic, moral and intellectual works of the human spirit and thus the life of the spirit is often situated on the other side of a gulf, opposed to science with its rationality. Culture is in danger of becoming reduced to science. In other words, the great metaphysical questions - those of telos, of sense - often are answered in terms of scientific conceptions. But these are at least incomplete, if not fragmentary, and in principle hypothetical, which still leaves the questions unanswered. But it is culture that is the manifestation of the human spirit, being the historical process of human self-interpretation-in-existence. All manifestations of the creative forge of the human being find a role in the fabric of culture, which involves progressively widening circles of the human community, demanding an integration and attunement with others in their changing conditions of life. This consideration of culture involves all areas of philosophical reflection: moral, aesthetic, metaphysical, epistemological, semiological, cognitive, and more. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Front Matter....Pages 1-2 The Ethical Evolution of Mankind in Husserl’s Phenomenology....Pages 3-11 Husserl and the Tradition....Pages 13-23 Der Ethische Impuls der Husserlschen Phänomenologie....Pages 25-81 Front Matter....Pages 83-84 Phenomenology and Multiculturalism....Pages 85-94 Our Values of Expectation/Expedition....Pages 95-124 Arquitectónica de La Ética de La Liberación....Pages 125-159 Value Orientation and Human Creativity....Pages 161-176 Roman Ingarden’s Philosophy of Culture....Pages 177-191 On the Alleged Dilemma in a Work Being both African and Philosophy....Pages 193-211 Front Matter....Pages 213-213 Commonplaceness as a Difficult Situation for Man....Pages 215-223 On the Significance of Animate Form....Pages 225-242 Heart Transplantation....Pages 243-258 Analyzing Images of the Future....Pages 259-280 La Phénoménologie de la Formation....Pages 281-288 Front Matter....Pages 289-289 The One and the Many in the Schizophrenic Life-World....Pages 291-293 Phenomenological Psychopathology of Interpersonal Communications....Pages 295-299 On Human Alienation....Pages 301-317 La Profundidad....Pages 319-335 Intersubjective Communication and Psycho-Impairment....Pages 337-341 Front Matter....Pages 343-343 The Language of Evil....Pages 345-358 Front Matter....Pages 343-343 Foreknowledge, Free Will and Modal Logic....Pages 359-368 Nothing in or out of the World is All Good or All Bad, All Gods Included....Pages 369-375 Back Matter....Pages 376-387