Life - Energies, Forces and the Shaping of Life: Vital, Existential: Book I

The nature of life consists in a constructive becoming (see Analecta Husserliana vol. 70). Though caught up in its relatively stable, stationary intervals manifesting the steps of its accomplishments that our attention is fixed. In this selection of studies we proceed, in contrast, to envisage life in the Aristotelian perspective in which energia, forces, and dynamisms of life at work are at the fore. Startling questions emerge: `what distinction could be drawn between the prompting forces of life and its formation? Or, is this distinction a result of our transcendental faculties?' The answers to these questions reveal themselves, as Tymieniecka proposes, at the phenomenologically ontopoietic level of life's origination where transcendentality surges. Front Matter....Pages i-xxxiv Front Matter....Pages 1-2 Force and Dynamism in Aristotle and Heidegger: Becoming What You Are...to Be....Pages 3-18 Von der Sinnkrise und der Wichtigkeit der Bedeutung für das Menschliche Leben....Pages 19-26 Les Passions de L’ame et L’Ontopoiesie de la Vie....Pages 27-40 The Notion of “Humanity” in Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka’s Anthropological Thought....Pages 41-49 Georg Simmel Between Goethe and Kant on “Life” and “Force”....Pages 51-68 Front Matter....Pages 69-70 Paleoanthropology from a Phenomenological Point of View. Some Remarks about the Genetic Structures of Human Life....Pages 71-82 The Function of Autotopoi in the Modification of a Subject’s Activity....Pages 83-93 The Irreversibility of Natural Processes and the Meaning of the Second Principle of Thermodynamics....Pages 95-100 The Natural-Scientific and Phenomenological Approaches to Animals....Pages 101-115 On the Dynamical Unity of Instrument and Substance....Pages 117-133 Front Matter....Pages 135-135 Life, Power and Measure in Nietzsche’s Work....Pages 137-143 Three Models of the Human Dynamic Towards Integrity: Eliade, Jung, Wilber....Pages 145-157 The Dispute Between Shestov and Husserl as a Reflection of Approaches to Axiology....Pages 159-180 Mass-Media Communication as a Possible Creative Source of New Shapes of Life....Pages 181-189 Front Matter....Pages 191-191 Does Time Move? Dogen and the Art of Understanding the Moment....Pages 193-199 Reductive and Nonreductive Theories of the Self: The Phenomenology of Performance....Pages 201-214 Evolving Life: Constant Turnover from Inconsistencies to Intensities....Pages 215-231 A Phenomenology of Proper Timing in Ancient China....Pages 233-263 African Theory of Forces and the Extended Family Relations: A Deconstruction....Pages 265-276 Front Matter....Pages 277-277 Giving form to Life According to Max Scheler....Pages 279-297 Front Matter....Pages 277-277 Worries of a Human Person at the Turn of the Century in the Light of the History of Medicine....Pages 299-305 “ Virtutes et Potentiae ”: The Medical-Biological Tradition in the Formation of the Philosophical Anthropology of the Thirteenth Century....Pages 307-318 Philosophical Thanatology as a Foundation of Contemporary Medical ARS Moriendi ....Pages 319-327 Nature as the Source of Life....Pages 329-336 Front Matter....Pages 337-337 Zur Bedeutung des “Blickes” und des “Antlitzes” bei Georg Simmel und Emmanuel Levinas....Pages 339-350 Human Dignity in Weakness — Gabriel Marcel’s Conception of Human Dignity....Pages 351-372 From the “ Ego ” to the “ World ” for a Community Ethic....Pages 373-386 Back Matter....Pages 387-398