The fullness of the logos in the key of life. / Book II, Christo-logos: metaphysical rhapsodies of faith (Itinerarium mentis in deo)

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by  Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa

THEFULLNESSOFTHELOGOSINTHEKEYOFLIFE
ANALECTA HUSSERLIANA
THE YEARBOOK OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH
VOLUME CXI
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ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA
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THE FULLNESS OF THE LOGOS
IN THE KEY OF LIFE
BOOK II. CHRISTO-LOGOS:
METAPHYSICAL RHAPSODIES OF FAITH
(ITINERARIUM MENTIS IN DEO)
by
ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA
TheWorldInstituteforAdvancedPhenomenologicalResearchandLearning,
Hanover,NewHampshire,USA
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TheWorldInstituteforAdvancedPhenomenologicalResearchandLearning
A-T.Tymieniecka,President
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Prof.Anna-TeresaTymieniecka
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction 1
a. The Illusion of the Return to the Source, p. 1. b. The Quest for
“True Reality” and the Impasse Between Individual and Collective
Effort, p. 3. c. The Dilemma at the Heart of Creativity: Collective
Heritage vis-à-vis Individual Existence, p. 7. d. Phenomenology of
Life(PhilosophyofLife),p.7.
Pro-Logos 11
a.TheDominatingDriveofOurAge,p.11.b.TheUniversalLogos,
p.12.c.TheIssue,p.14.d.TheRhapsodicLogos:InwardOrientation
TowardaSenseofFulfillment,p.14.
PARSI
APeriodofPreparationforFaith 21
1. SeekingAuthenticRealityBehinditsMedia 21
2. TheConditionsofCreativityasSeenPhilosophically 24
3. TheRadicalBeginning:LimitConceptsandaNewPatternfor
theMind 25
PARSII
Glimmerings 33
1. Hope:TheGoddessofIllusion—NoHopebutDesireforGod
(AnAfterthought) 33
2. JoyandSuffering 34
3. TheLifeofPassionorofStoicReserve? 35
4. TheImpossibilityofTruthandtheAmbiguityofBeing 36
PARSIII
TheWindowupontheAbsolute 41
1. Destiny 41
2. TheDivineSchemeofCreationandtheTransnaturalDestiny
oftheSoul 42
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3. TheWindowtotheAbsolute 43
4. TheTransnaturalDestinyoftheSoul 43
5. TheParadoxofLove 44
6. WaitingforGodandtheSpiritualDestinyoftheSoul 49
7. HumanCommunion,theExistentialCommunicationofthe
PhilosopherandtheCommunicationofTransnaturalDestiny 50
PARSIV
OpeningtheWindowtotheAbsolute 55
1. IsHumanCommunicationPossible?TheDoortotheAbsolute 55
a. Mary and Elizabeth, p. 55. b. The Communication of the Unique
Treasure,p.56.c.TheUniqueInstant,p.57.
PARSV
RetracingourStepstotheCave,IlluminatingIT 63
1. TheTwo-WayReflectionandGivingMeaningtoLife 63
2. TheSufferingofLiving(leMaldeVivre) 65
3. TheMeaningofLifeandtheIdealofLife 68
PARSVI
InthePursuitofTruth 73
1. HumanKnowingatLooseEnds 73
2. TheSearchforPersonalTruth 74
3. TheBroadOutlookandtheNarrowFocus 77
4. TheStruggleforLife 79
PARSVII
Embodiment:OurInwardDramaSituatedwithintheWorldofLife,Nature,
andtheCosmos 85
1. TheContingentExistenceofManwithintheSchemeoftheCosmos 85
2. OriginaryEvidence:TheAntitheticTensionbetweenImminent
MobilityandtheUrgetoRest 85
3. Movement, Change, and the Tendency to Seek Rest the
AntitheticSituation:ExperienceattheCrossroadsoftheImminent 86
a. Originary Evidence—Collective Experience, p. 86. b. Argument:
TheConcernandNotionofExistence,p.87.
4. TheIndividualandtheWorldContextofActualExistence 88
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5. MoreonOriginaryEvidence 88
a. The Sense-Bestowing Structure of Cognition and the Inexorable
Changeability of Nature and the World Around Us, p. 90. b. The
Instantaneity of Consciousness and its Essential Fleetingness: No
Intrinsic Point of Rest or Support, p. 91. c. Collective Experiential
Evidence,p.97.
6. MoreontheRealIndividualandtheContextofActualExistence 103
7. ConstitutiveCognition:TheQuestforEquipoisewithinBecoming 104
a. The Originary Experience of Mankind, p. 104. b. The Sense-
Bestowing Structure of Cognition and the Inexorable Changeability
of the World Around Us, p. 107. c. The Instantaneity of
Consciousness,p.108.
PARSVIII
TheConstitutiveArchetypes:TheImageofGodEmergingattheFurthest
BordersofConsciousDealingswithourPrimordialConditionof
ContingentExistence 117
1. TheFrontierbetweentheTimelessand Timing 117
2. TheImageofGod 118
PARSIX
TheInwardSacred 123
1. TheSacredinMan 123
2. The Concrete—The Diffuse at the Cross-Section of the
TemporalandtheEternal 124
3. OrdoAmoris—TheDistinctiveHumanDimension 127
4. The Arche-Lines of the Infinite and the Contingent, the
Protohyle of the Intentional Lifeworld in the Texture of
LanguageasConcernwiththeSacred 128
5. DoubtandCertitudeattheSpiritualLevelofExperience 129
6. ThePortentoftheSacred:TheRadicalThresholdofReal
ActualExistence 131
7. The Instantiation of the Sacred within Intimate Personal
Existence:EncounterwithChristasPortentoftheSacred 133
a. The Sacred, p. 133. b. The Three Movements of the Soul, p. 133.
c.TheNewTurntheQuestTakesintheDestructionofBasicPatterns:
The Vital Pattern, p. 134. d. The Destruction of the Basic Moral
Pattern,p.138.
8. ProgressTowardstheInwardSacred 142
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a.“Humility”and“Expiation”,p.142.b.The“Consecration”ofOur
Being,p.144.
9. The Unique Witness: The Fulfillment of the Act of
TranscendencewithintheUniquelyPersonalSelf 145
10. GodisPresenttousWhenwearenotPresenttoOurselves 148
PARSX
TheTransnaturalDestinyoftheSoul 153
1. TheRoleoftheIndividual 153
2. TheSchemeofCreationandtheWeboftheDestiniesofSouls 153
3. ToDiscovertheDestinyoftheSoulweHavetoAbandonall
Hope!CorollarytotheSecondSermonofTimothy 154
4. Happiness 155
5. TheDestinyoftheSoul:TheUniqueDesign,theGreatGame
ofDivineCreation,andPersonalFreedom 156
6. The Being of Man Envisaged in a Tripartite Scheme:
Consciousness,Soul,andBody 160
7. TheActofFaith 162
a.TheActofFaithandtheInstaurationoftheInwardSacred,p.162.
b. The Instauration of the Inward Sacred as the Definitive and Final
MeasureofEquipoise,p.163.c.TheActofFaithasAbandonment
totheUltimate,p.165.
8. TheInwardSacred 166
9. TowardthePurityofAbandonment 167
10. Destiny,InventedorDiscovered? 168
11. HowDoesGodSpeaktotheSoul? 169
12. The Modality of “Adoration” in the Light of the Classic
Controversyoverthe“PureLove”ofGod 170
13. IsthewebofGenerationstheweboftheSoul’sDestiny? 171
14. TheDissolutionoftheLastPatternofPersonalityintheLoss
ofSpiritualPosterity 173
15. TheTransformationthatistheRadicalTurn 178
16. OurTransnaturalDestiny 183
17. TheSpiritualDestinyofSt.ThérèseofLisieux 185
18. HowDoesGodSpeaktoaSoul?ShapingDifferentDestinies 190
19. TheGreatChain 191
a.TheChain,p.191.
20. CipherLanguageandtheIncarnationoftheHumanBeing 192
21. Coda 194
22. TheFarewellSermonofTimothy:Christo-Logos 194
NameIndex 197
INTRODUCTION
a. THE ILLUSION OF THE RETURN TO THE
SOURCE
Whatever may be the reasons for which science and philosophy attempt to disen-
tanglethenetofformalconstructionsthattheevolvinghumanmindhasestablished
forhisownuseandtherace’ssurvival,thereasonforwhich,rightlyorwrongly,the
contemporary artist also seeks the primitive virginal state of man is different. The
purposeoftheartistisnottosatisfyintellectualcuriosityastowhatisthebasicset
upofthehumanbeingortheoriginal,initialstateofhumanvirtualitiesfromwhich
theself-constructingprocessbegan.Thepurposeoftheartististofindthevirginal
sourceofhumancreativeendeavor,whichisnotgearedtoman’ssurvivalandvital
progressbuttotheartisticfulfillmentofhisnostalgiasandhigheryearnings.Could
our artistic creative endeavor have been launched simultaneously with that human
functioningorientedtowardmeresurvival?Wewillallowthatitdidnot.Tothecon-
trary, the artistic quest issues from dissatisfaction with the round of everyday life.
The artist is essentially seeking to discover not how empirical reality is but rather
somethingthatnaturallyevolvinglifedoesnotoffer.Hiscreativeendeavordoesnot
serve the aims of life or contribute to the world as it is devised for meeting these
aims. How then can the source of his creative elevations be found in the primitive
setupofthehumanmind?Isthesourceoftheartistic,creativeendeavorthatwould
reach beyond the limitations of the established world that this endeavor is meant
to transcend, that would offer the virginal ground of all forms and feelings, to be
sought,therefore,inthereturntotheprimitive,undevelopedexperienceofmanand
hisbasicvirtualities?
If we consider the nature of our experience of life as such, we discern in it two
essentialcomponents.
Firstofall,ateverystageoflife’sdevelopment—butwhatmaybeinferredprin-
cipally about the very incipient stage of human reaction such that it rises to the
levelofexperience—thereisaninitialspontaneity.Itsurgesblindandemptyasthe
expression of life itself but ready to perpetuate life according to its demands and
beingoutfittedforthispurpose.Ifthisinitialspontaneitycomestoacquirethesta-
tusofhumanexperience,thatis,iflifeproceedsfromitsblindstagetotheopening
outofaself-consciousdimension,itisbecauseitsemergence musthave activated
the various virtualities of the individual being within which it surges. Experience
asbasicallyaspontaneityisobviouslystrictlyindividual,unshareable.Itcannotbe
transferredfromonebeingtoanother,anditsoriginwhateverbeitroots,whichare
notdirectlyinspectable,restrictittoonespecificindividual.Hereisspontaneityonly
andexclusivelytheindividual’sveryown,hismostintimatespontaneity.Thisisthe
spontaneityofanindividualamidparticularmostcomplex—andintheircomplexity,
ungraspable—conditionswithinthenaturalandsocialuniverseofman.Thisunique
concretenesssharedwithanindividuallifealoneis,however,complementedatits
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