Inaugural Essay -- The Origins of Life: The Existential Senses of Sharing-in-Life โ{128}{148} Vital, Societal, Creative โ{128}{148} a Radically Novel Platform -- Section I Transitions of Sense: From the Vital Towards the Existential/Societal Sharing-in-Life -- Logos and Ethos in the Thought of Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka: The Aspect ofโ{128}{156}Beginningโ{128}{157} -- In Defense of a Moth. The Search for Foundations of Environmental Ethics -- Life, Person, Responsibility -- Values Within Relations -- Creativity and Everyday Life โ{128}{148} Ricoeurโ{128}{153}s Aesthetics -- Section II The Surging of The Intentional platform of Life -- The Human Arts and the Natural Laws of Bios: Return to Consciousness -- The Phenomenon of Loneliness and the Meta-Theory of Consciousness -- Jungโ{128}{153}s Concept of Individuation and the Problem of Alienation -- โ{128}{156}Human Dignityโ{128}{157} asโ{128}{156}Rationalityโ{128}{157} โ{128}{148} The Development of a Conception -- On Emotion and Self-Determination in Max Scheler and Antoni K?pi?ski -- The Paradoxical Transformation of Existence: On Kierkegaardโ{128}{153}s Concept of Individuation -- Multiple Persons in Kierkegaardโ{128}{153}s Pseudonymous Authorship -- Section III The Emergence of The Creative Sphere of Sharing-in-Life -- Human Existence as a Creative Process: A Commentary on Anna-Teresa Tymienieckaโ{128}{153}s Anthropological Reflection -- The Methodologies of Life, Self-Individualization and Creativity in the Educational Process -- Stimuli to Invention: New Technologies, New Audiences, New Images -- Stefan Zweig and His Literary Biographies -- The Artistic Event in the Space of Life as an Effect of the Interaction of Instincts, Feelings, Images and Spiritual Transcendence -- Reflections on the Everlasting and the Transient or the Road to theโ{128}{156}Freed Field of Lightโ{128}{157} -- Death and Ontology -- Sein als โ{128}{156}Positionโ{128}{157} und Ereignis: Kants These รผber das Sein und Heidegger -- Section IV The Spirit of Creativity Soaring towards the Sense of Beauty and Transcendence -- au]Chinese Gardens: The Relation of Man to Nature in Seventeenth-Century French Culture -- Life: The True, the Good and the Beautiful: A Comparative Study of Greek and Pre-Qin Philosophies -- Towards an Aesthetics of Nature: Merleau-Pontyโ{128}{153}s Embodied Ontology -- Ontology and Poetry: The Principles of Being of Creation -- Heavenโ{128}{153}s Angels with Grinding Organs: John Ruskinโ{128}{153}s Idea of Life -- Du Mortel a lโ{128}{153}Impossible ร{137}ternel: La Transcendance de la Mort -- Section V Time, World, and Hermeneutics -- The Phenomenon of the Future as It was Constituted by Kierkegaard, Husserl and Heidegger -- Time as Viewed by Husserl and Heidegger -- Postmodernism is Existential Phenomenology -- Postmodernism as a Completion of Phenomenology and Hermeneutics -- The Human Being in the Liberal-Democratic Epoch -- Six Para-Philosophical Exercises in Latvian Euro(onto)poiesis -- Index of Names