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

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.Acknowledgements. The Theme. Inaugural lecture. The life-force or the shaping-of-life? A-T. Tymieniecka. Section I. Force and dynamism in Aristotle and Heidegger: Becoming what you are... to be; C. Hanley. Von der Sinnkrise und der Wichtigkeit der Bedeutung f?r das menschliche Leben; H. Tatematsu. Les passions de l'?me et l'Ontopoiesie de la vie; M. Kronegger. The notion of 'humanity' in Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka's anthropological thought; M.P. Migon. Georg Simmel between Goethe and Kant on 'Life' and 'Force'; P. Giacomoni. Section II. Paleoanthropology from a phenomenological point of view. Some remarks about the genetic structures of the human life; B. de Villers. The function of autotopoi in the modification of a subject's activity; J. Slosarska. The irreversibility of natural processes and the meaning of the second principle of thermodynamics; A. Marchesin. The natural-scientific and phenomenological approaches to animals; S. Lijmbach. On the dynamical unity of instrument and substance; D. Rothbart. Section III. Life, power and measure in Nietzsche's work; F. Totaro. Three models of human dynamic towards integrity: Eliade, Jung, Wilber; M. Zowislo. The dispute between Shestov and Husserl as a reflection of approaches lă>