Title	Life Energies, Forces and the Shaping of Life: Vital, Existential [electronic resource] : Book I / edited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Imprint	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2002
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0417-6
Descript	XXXIV, 398 p. online resource

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: ẁhat 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

SECTION I -- Force and Dynamism in Aristotle and Heidegger: Becoming What You AreโฆTo Be -- Von der Sinnkrise und der Wichtigkeit der Bedeutung fรผr das Menschliche Leben -- Les passions de lโame et lโontopoiesie de la vie -- The Notion of โHumanityโ in Anna-Teresa Tymienieckaโs Anthropological Thought -- Georg Simmel Between Goethe and Kant on โLifeโ and โForceโ -- SECTION II -- Paleoanthropology from a Phenomenological Point of View. Some Remarks About the Genetic Structures of Human Life -- The Function of Autotopoi in the Modification of a Subjectโs Activity -- The Irreversibility of Natural Processes and the Meaning of the Second Principle of Thermodynamics -- The Natural-Scientific and Phenomenological Approaches to Animals -- On the Dynamical Unity of Instrument and Substance -- SECTION III -- Life, Power and Measure in Nietzscheโs Work -- Three Models of the Human Dynamic Towards Integrity: Eliade, Jung, Wilber -- The Dispute between Shestov and Husserl as a Reflection of Approaches to Axiology -- Mass-Media Communication as a Possible Creative Source of New Shapes of Life -- SECTION IV -- Does Time Move? Dogen and the Art of Understanding the Moment -- Reductive and Nonreductive Theories of the Self: The Phenomenology of Performance -- Evolving Life: Constant Turnover from Inconsistencies to Intensities -- A Phenomenology of Proper Timing in Ancient China -- African Theory of Forces and the Extended Family Relations: A Deconstruction -- SECTION V -- Giving Form to Life According to Max Scheler: Part I: Processes of Functionalization and of Work; Part II: Human Perception as a Cooperation of Vital and Spiritual Forces -- Worries of a Human Person at the Turn of the Century in the Light of the History of Medicine -- โVirtutes et Potentiaeโ: The MedicalโBiological Tradition in the Formation of the Philosophical Anthropology of the Thirteenth Century -- Philosophical Thanatology as a Foundation of Contemporary Medical Ars Moriendi -- Nature as the Source of Life -- SECTION VI -- Zur Bedeutung des โBlickesโ und des โAntlitzesโ bei Georg Simmel und Emmanuel Levinas -- Human Dignity in Weakness โ Gabriel Marcelโs Conception of Human Dignity -- From the โEgoโ to the โWorldโ for a Community Ethic -- INDEX OF NAMES

1. Philosophy
2. Metaphysics
3. Biology -- Philosophy
4. Philosophy of nature
5. Phenomenology
6. Philosophy
7. Metaphysics
8. Phenomenology
9. Philosophy of Biology
10. History of Philosophy
11. Philosophy of Nature