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

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

Book information

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
2002
ISBN
978-94-010-3914-7, 978-94-010-0417-6
DOI
10.1007/978-94-010-0417-6
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1744621 bytes)
Series
Analecta Husserliana 74
Edition
1
Pages
398\413
Time added
2013-12-12 02:00:00
Metaphysics; Phenomenology; Philosophy of Biology;

Description

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.

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