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

413 Pages·2002·1.664 MB·English

by  Catriona Hanley (auth.), Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (eds.)

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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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