Phenomenology of life from the animal soul to the human mind / edited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka.

"Gathers papers read at our Fifty-Fifth International Phenomenology Congress, which was held in August 17-20, 2005 at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands."--P. xi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Book I. In search of experience -- Book II. The human soul in the creative transformation of the mind -- --

Book I. Opening address / G. Lock -- THEMATIC STUDY. From Sentience to Consciousness / A-.T. Tymieniecka -- Stephan Strasser's Philosophical Legacy and Duquesne University's Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center / D.J. Martino 1. ANIMALITY AND CONSCIOUSNESS. Nietzsche's Bestiary. Animal, Man, Superman / D. Verducci -- "Strange Kinship”: Merleau-Ponty on the Human-Animal Relation / T. Toadvine -- Husserl's Intersubjectivity and the Possibility of Living with Nonhuman Persons / M. Trachsel -- Vertigo and the Beetle Out of the Box, On the Representation of Inner Mental States / M. Holt -- Bodies and More Bodies: Trying to Find Experience / M.J. Larrabee -- 2. SOURCES OF HUMANITY. Nature and Men. The Common Destiny / L. Pyra -- In Search of the Sources of Humanity / B.Bombala -- The Historicity of Body and Soul / K. Rokstad -- 3. IN SEARCH OF EXPERIENCE. An Empirical Phenomenological Approach to Experiences / I. Maso -- The Ethics of Attention / N. Madras -- Between Animality and Intellection: Phenomenology of the Child-Consciousness in Proust and Merleau-Ponty / J.A. Gosetti-Ferencei -- Naturalistic and Personalistic Attitude / M. Villela-Petit -- Mamardashvili on Thinking, and Sensitivity / M. Stafecka -- 4. MORAL ELEMENT OF EXPERIENCE. "The Ontopoietic Unfolding of Life” - A Conceptual System for an Ethics Focusing on the "Bios” / C. Cozma -- Ontological Intentionality and Moral Consciousness in Human Experience / F. Totaro -- Gibt es eine Ethik der Lebenswelt? / A. Brenner -- Traces Left by Levinas: Is "Humanism of the Other" Possible? / S.K. Çelik -- On the Subject of Heidegger: Existence, Person, Alterity / O. Rossi -- 5. THE CREATIVE TURN. La Volonté Husserlienne en Tant Que Pouvoir Créateur / M.M.B. Martins -- Mental Experience and Creativity / H. Bergson, E. Husserl, P. Jurevics and A.-T. Tymieniecka, E. Freiberga -- Learning and Creativity / K. Selvi -- Education without Paideia: A Phenomenological View of Education Today / J. C. Couciero-Bueno -- 6. CREATIVITY AND AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE. When the Given Becomes the Chosen / P. Trutty-Coohill -- Gadamer and the "Traditionalist” School. On Art and the Divine / W. Lammi. -- Aesthetic Virtuality of the Architectural-Natural Landscape in Modern Communications / L. Molodkina -- Vitalogical Aesthetics. The Idea of Beauty in African Culture, Art and Philosophy / M.N. Nkemnkia --

Book II. THEMATIC STUDY. Creative Imagination in the Converting of Life's Sensibilities into Full Human Experience / A.T-. Tymieniecka 1. SPHERES OF THE HUMAN SOUL. Phenomenological Hyletics: The Animal, The Human, The Divine / A. A. Bello -- Passivity and Fundamental life's Experience in Michel Henry's Thought / S.Z. de Azevedo -- Alterity, Art, and the Language of the Soul / B. Grassom -- Ontopoiesis and Spiritual Emergence: Bridging Tymieniecka's Phenomenology of Life and Transpersonal Psychology / O. Louchakova -- The Theory of the Passions in the Sermons of Antônio Vieira S.J. (1608-1697): A Phenomenological Reading / M.L. Fernandes -- Phenomenology: The Return to the Living Soul / O. Shkubulyani -- The Transpersonal Psycho-Phenomenology of Self & Soul: Meditators and Multiples Speak / A.L. Miller -- 2. SCIENCE AS THE HUMAN PHENOMENON. Science and the Human Phenomenon: Markings From a Cosmic Orphan / L. Zonneveld -- Consciousness in the Perspective of Evolution / I.S. Fiut -- The Constitution of Biological Objects of Inquiry from the Viewpoint of Hermeneutic Phenomenology / D. Ginev -- Biological Function Without Natural Design / A. Sol -- Artificial Intelligence: The Role of Phenomenology in the Organization of Interdisciplinary Researches / A. Zotov -- 3. MIND/BODY REVISITED. Soul and Body in the Phenomenological Context / S Khalilov -- Epistemological Questions Concerning the In-Depth Body and the Coming about of the Ego / H. de Preester -- E. Husserl's Phenomenology on the Universal Life of Consciousness in Reflection and in Time / A. Kouzmin -- Husserl's Transcendental Phenomenology and the Mind-Body Problem / D. Grünberg -- Origins of Consciousness and Conscious (Free) Intention from the Viewpoint of Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Science (Anthroposophy) in Relation to Husserl's Transcendental Reduction / M.B. Majorek -- The Concept of Human Soul/Mind in the Light of the Evolutionist Theory of Knowledge: Scientific Epistemological Aspects and Metaphysical Implications / R. Verolini -- 4. THE ROLE OF HUMAN EMPATHY IN COMMUNICATION. The Meaning of Empathic Understanding in Human Inquiry / A. Smaling -- Scientific Analysis of the Body and the Interaction of Minds / H. Turan -- "To Communicate with a Gnat”: Experience and Communication Within the Context of Life-World / E. Buceniece -- Albert Camus: The Awareness of Extraneousness / M.M. Ligozzi -- 5. THE HUMAN SELF. Descartes, Hume, Kant and Diderot: The Interconnectedness of the Self and Nature / O.W. Holmes -- To Dive Back in the Flux of Life: William James's Critique of Intellectualism / V. Vevere -- The Social Construction of the Self: Contribution of Social Phenomenology / N. Smirnova -- The Category of the (Non-) Temporal <<Now>> in Philosophy of the 'Late' Husserl / C.J. Olbromski -- Ingmar Bergman's Projected Self: From W. A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte to Vargtimmen / E.J. Burns -- 6. MIND, LANGUAGE, WORLD. On the Interface Between Minds and Concepts / S. Akinçi -- Mind and Ontology. Ingarden's Phenomenology and Mahayana Philosophy as Opposed Ways of Approach to Reality / W. Kurpiewski -- Deconstruction of the Logocenter of all Grounds Constructed by Language Habits. Language-Game the Surroundings of which is Everywhere, the Center of which is Nowhere / E. Sezgin -- Symbolical Forms and Their Role in an Anthropological Analysis. Ernst Cassirer's Conception of the Human World / P. Mróz, M. Kaluza -- The Positionalist Notion of Human Nature in Plessner's and Gehlen's Philosophy / J. Handerek.

Book I: "Transcendental phenomenology presumed to have overcome the classic mind-body dichotomy in terms of consciousness, yet, according to progress in scientific studies the biological functions of the brain seem to appropriate significant functions attributed traditionally to consciousness. Should we indeed dissolve the specificity of human consciousness by explaining human experience in its multiple sense-giving modalities through the physiological functions of the brain? The present collection of studies addresses this crucial question challenging such "naturalizing" reductionism from multiple angles. In search for the roots of "The Specifically Human Experience" (Bombala), moving along the line of "Animality and Intellection"(Gosetti-Ferencei), "Naturalistic Attitude and Personalistic Attitude"(Villela-Petit), and numerous other perspectives, we arrive at a novel proposal to explain the scholar functional differentiation of conscious modalities. We reach their source in the ontopoietic thread conducting the Logos of Life in its stepwise "Evolutive Unfolding"(Carmen Cozma), and in "sentience" as its quintessential core of further irreducible continuity (Tymieniecka) dispelling dichotomies and reductionisms."--Publisher.

Book II: "The challenge presented by the recent tendencies to "naturalize" phenomenology, on the basis of the progress in biological and neurological sciences, calls for an investigation of the traditional mind-body problem. The progress in phenomenological investigation is up to answering that challenge by placing the issues at stake upon a novel platform, that is the ontopoiesis of life. The present collection of studies extends our investigation (see Analecta Husserliana vol. 93) by seeking the ontopoietic continuity of sense between the vitally and spiritually significant functions of life. From the multiple approaches stretching through "The Animal, the Human, and the Divine" (Ales Bello), there come to the fore the intellective, aesthetic, moral fruits of the creative human mind: "The In-Depth Body and the Coming About of Ego" (De Preester), "Consciousness in the Perspective of Evolution" (Fiut), "Science and the Human Phenomenon" (Zonneveld), "Specifically Human Empathy" (Adri Smalling), and others. The emphasis falls upon "The Living Soul" (Shkubulyani) as the common origin of life's sense giving functions, which in their ontopoietic unfolding become informed by the simultaneously originating human creative mind, crowned in its advance by the sacral "Spiritual Emergence" (Louchakova).:--Publisher.

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