Phenomenology and the human positioning in the cosmos : the life-world, nature, earth: Book 2 ; [... papers ... read at the 61st International Congress of Phenomenology, "Phenomenology and the Human Positioning in the Cosmos: The Life-World, Nature, Earth

The classic conception of human transcendental consciousness assumes its self-supporting existential status within the horizon of life-world, nature and earth. Yet this assumed absoluteness does not entail the nature of its powers, neither their constitutive force. This latter call for an existential source reaching beyond the generative life-world network. Transcendental consciousness, having lost its absolute status (its point of reference) it is the role of the logos to lay down the harmonious positioning in the cosmic sphere of the all, establishing an original foundation of phenomenology in the primogenital ontopoiesis of life. Read more... Abstract: This book probes the concept of human transcendental consciousness, which assumes its self-supporting existential status in the horizon of life-world, nature and earth. This absoluteness does not entail the nature of its powers, nor their constitutive force. Read more... Front Matter....Pages i-ix Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Modern Eco-Philosophy and Phenomenology of Life on Human Positioning in the Cosmos: A.-T. Tymieniecka and Henryk Skolimowski in Comparison....Pages 3-20 Darwin’s God: The Human Position After Darwin’s Theory – Philosophical and Theological Implications....Pages 21-35 Nature and Cosmos in a Phenomenological Elucidation....Pages 37-52 The Cosmic Matrix: Revisiting the Notion of the World Horizon....Pages 53-66 Front Matter....Pages 67-67 Interpretations of Suffering in Phenomenology of Life and Today’s Life-World....Pages 69-80 The Idea of Good in Husserl and Aristotle....Pages 81-88 Heidegger on the Poietic Truth of Being....Pages 89-104 The Later Wittgenstein On Certainty....Pages 105-115 Front Matter....Pages 117-117 The Primal Child of Nature – Towards a Systematic Theory of Eco-Phenomenology....Pages 119-153 The Truth in Heidegger: An Analysis of Martin Heidegger’s Philosophy of Art as It Appears in the Ursprung des Kunstwerkes from the Perspective of Sein und Zeit ....Pages 155-165 Creation and Construction of Knowledge in Learning-Teaching Process....Pages 167-179 Questioning Husserl’s Conception of a ‘Primal Endowment’ (Ur-Stiftung) and Heidegger’s Concept of Enowning (Ereignis)....Pages 181-190 Front Matter....Pages 191-191 Places, Spaces, Meaning – Experienced by Three Australian Walks....Pages 193-202 Phenomenology of the Management as the Eco-Empathic Leadership....Pages 203-218 Human Development Between Imaginative Freedom and Vital Constraints on the Light of Quantum Phenomenology....Pages 219-226 Nothing Is Without Reason : Climate Change and the Global Future as Saturated Phenomena....Pages 227-239 Front Matter....Pages 241-241 The Truth of the Work of Art: Heidegger and Gadamer....Pages 243-253 Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty: The Sense of the Earth and the Earth of Sense....Pages 255-289 Towards the Metaphysics of Humor and Laughter....Pages 291-302 Meister Eckhart and Man in Cosmos – Being Everything Through Reason....Pages 303-318 Front Matter....Pages 319-319 Edmund Husserl on Tradition....Pages 321-343 Dealing with the Wasteland. Józef Tischner’s Concept of Earth....Pages 345-354 Duality: The Ultimate Phenomenon of the Universe as Revealed in Recent Scientific Discoveries....Pages 355-359 Can Transcendental Self Be Made Transparent?....Pages 361-370 La pensée libre d’Averroès....Pages 371-382 Back Matter....Pages 383-403