LIFE ENERGIES, FORCES AND THE SHAPING OF LIFE: VITAL, EXISTENTIAL BOOK I ANALECTA HUSSERLIANA THE Y E A R B O OK OF P H E N O M E N O L O G I C AL R E S E A R CH V O L U ME L X X IV Founder and Editor-in-Chief: ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning Hanover, New Hampshire For sequel volumes see the end of this volume. LIFE ENERGIES, FORCES AND THE SHAPING OF LIFE: VITAL, EXISTENTIAL BOOK I Edited by A N N A - T E R E SA T Y M I E N I E C KA 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. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available. ISBN 978-94-010-3914-7 ISBN 978-94-010-0417-6 (eBook) DIO 10.1007/978-94-010-0417-6 Printed on acid-free paper All Rights Reserved © 2002 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht Originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 2002 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2002 No part of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner. TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA / The Theme:Inaugural Lecture: The Life-Force or the Shaping-of-Life? xv SECTION I CATRIONA HANLEY / Force and Dynamism in Aristotle and Heidegger:Becoming What You Are…To Be 3 HIROTAKA TATEMATSU / Von der Sinnkrise und der Wichtigkeit der Bedeutung für das Menschliche Leben 19 MARLIES KRONEGGER / Les passions de l’ame et l’ontopoiesie de la vie 27 MIECZYSL⁄ AW PAWEL MIGON / The Notion of “Humanity”in Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka’s Anthropological Thought 41 PAOLA GIACOMONI / Georg Simmel Between Goethe and Kant on “Life”and “Force” 51 SECTION II BÉNÉDICTE de VILLERS / Paleoanthropology from a Phenomenological Point of View. Some Remarks About the Genetic Structures of Human Life 71 JOANNA S´LÓSARSKA / The Function of Autotopoi in the Modification of a Subject’s Activity 83 ARTURO MARCHESIN / The Irreversibility of Natural Processes and the Meaning of the Second Principle of Thermodynamics 95 SUSANNE LIJMBACH / The Natural-Scientific and Phenomenological Approaches to Animals 101 DANIEL ROTHBART / On the Dynamical Unity of Instrument and Substance 117 v vi TABLE OF CONTENTS SECTION III FRANCESCO TOTARO / Life,Power and Measure in Nietzsche’s Work 137 MARIA ZOWISL⁄ O / Three Models of the Human Dynamic Towards Integrity:Eliade,Jung,Wilber 145 ZOFIA MAJEWSKA / The Dispute between Shestov and Husserl as a Reflection of Approaches to Axiology 159 MINA SEHDEV / Mass-Media Communication as a Possible Creative Source of New Shapes of Life 181 SECTION IV DWIGHT HOLBROOK / Does Time Move? Dogen and the Art of Understanding the Moment 193 WILLIAM S. HANEY II / Reductive and Nonreductive Theories of the Self:The Phenomenology of Performance 201 KOICHIRO MATSUNO / Evolving Life:Constant Turnover from Inconsistencies to Intensities 215 JAMES D. SELLMANN / A Phenomenology of Proper Timing in Ancient China 233 JIM I. UNAH / African Theory of Forces and the Extended Family Relations:A Deconstruction 265 SECTION V DANIELA VERDUCCI / Giving Form to Life According to Max Scheler:Part I:Processes of Functionalization and of Work; 279 Part II:Human Perception as a Cooperation of Vital and Spiritual Forces BARBARA MAROSZYN´SKA-JEZ·OWSKA / Worries of a Human Person at the Turn of the Century in the Light of the History of Medicine 299 ROMANA MARTORELLI VICO / “Virtutes et Potentiae”:The Medical–Biological Tradition in the Formation of the Philosophical Anthropology of the Thirteenth Century 307 ANNA ALICHNIEWICZ / Philosophical Thanatology as a Foundation of Contemporary Medical Ars Moriendi 319 LESZEK PYRA / Nature as the Source of Life 329 TABLE OF CONTENTS vii SECTION VI ANSELM MODEL / Zur Bedeutung des “Blickes”und des “Antlitzes”bei Georg Simmel und Emmanuel Levinas 339 J.J. VENTER / Human Dignity in Weakness –– Gabriel Marcel’s Conception of Human Dignity 351 IRENE ANGELA BIANCHI / From the “Ego”to the “World”for a Community Ethic 373 APPENDIX 387 INDEX OF NAMES 389 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This volume gathers the first part of the program which was presented by the World Phenomenology Institute at its Third International Congress of Phenomenology/Philosophy and the Sciences of Life, which was held at the Collegium Medicum of the Jagiellonian University, of Krakow, Poland, on September 13–16, 1999. The theme of the congress was: “Forces, Dynamisms, and the Shaping of Life: Vital, Existential, Creative.” It continued our exploration of Phenomenology and the Sciences of Life. We owe our sincere gratitude to Professor Dr. Hab. Aleksander Koj, Rector Magnificus emeritus of the Jagiellonian University for his gracious support of this venture when it was first proposed and to Professor Dr. Hab. Franciszek Ziejka, Rector Magnificus of the Jagiellonian University for his support and hospitality at the time of its realization. To Dean Wl⁄odzimierz Rydzewski of the Jagiellonian University we likewise owe a debt of gratitude. For the World Phenomenology Institute and myself, its president, the presence at the opening of the congress of the Honorable David Fried, American Ambassador to Poland, together with Mark Toner, American Consul General in Krakow,and their suite,was a special privilege. The faculty, staff, and students of the Institute of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University,under the direction of Dr. Justyna Miklaszew offered us substantial help in organizing this magnificent event. In particular we are grateful to colleagues Tadeusz Czarnik, Piotr Mróz, Joanna Handerek from this Institute,but also to Leszek Pyra and Ignacy Fiut from other departments of the University,who together with our valued collaborator Robert Wise,Jr. have carried out the day-to-day progress of the event. Thanks to Zbigniew Zalewski who has obtained for the congress the incomparable setting of the Collegium Medicum for lectures and opening of the congress! We owe them all and each in a particular way warmest thanks for the out- standing success of this event. It should not be forgotten the behind-the- scenes painstaking and dedicated efforts of Jeffrey Hurlburt, who on the premises of the Institute in Belmont, Massachusetts, took in hand and orchestrated all the moves of this philosophical play to be performed upon the stage of the Jagiellonian University in the far-off land of Poland. ix x ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS To him and to Rosemary Lunardini and Robert Wise, Jr. for their care in editing the presented papers for publication, I owe my heartiest personal thanks. The authors/speakers who flocked to Krakow from all around the world merit a special ovation. A-T.T. niversity,Hirotaka n UWait, a nin oo agielle,Eld e JWis of thbert us Ro fick, Magniandera or a H Rectoann Koj,ski,J er ew Aleksandgniew Zal ab. Zbi Dr. HMróz, hosts Piotr our yra, P eft:ek lz o es right t...,L m a, k oc on; frmienie ng receptiTeresa Tyatsu,... nia-m ene OpAnTat
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