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The article discusses the characteristic types of metaphysics of Nature and Life, man and morality, contained in “Phenomenology of Life” of A.-T. Tymieniecka and eco-philosophy of H. Skolimowski. These essentially different structures of ontological, anthropological, ethical and social thought are discussed with a premise that in the complex process of philosophical cognition of reality, different manners of “interpreting” and explaining the subject matter of study frequently lead to similar results. Meaningful examples of this specific epistemological “affliction” are the philosophical concepts of nature and the human world [culture, civilization, morality] discussed in the article of the two leading co-creators of modern philosophy: A.-T. Tymieniecka and H. Skolimowski. The article shows similarities and differences in the theoretical and axiological/ normative stance of these two outstanding creative personalities and the warning, expressed unanimously by them, regarding the serious threats to the modern civilization and even the future of the human race, resulting from erroneous developmental premises and irrational directions of transformations in the collective and individual life in the globalizing world.
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A.-T. Tymieniecka, “Czy świat istnieje. Nowe spojrzenie na podstawy sporu Husserl-Ingarden, rozwiązanie ontopojetyczne” (in:) Roman Ingarden i dążenia fenomenologów, ed. Czesław Głombik (Wydawnictwo Gnobe, Katowice, 2006) p. 41.
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Ibidem, p. 42.
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Ibidem.
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Cf. J. Szmyd: “Post-Modernism and the Ethics of Conscience; Various “Interpretations” of the Morality of Post-Modern World. Role of A.-T. Tymieniecka’s Phenomenology of Life” in: Analecta Husserliana. The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research, vol. CV. “Phenomenology and Existentialism in the Twentieth Century. Book 3. Heralding the New Enlightenment” ed. by A. T. Tymieniecka (Springer: Dordrecht-Heidelberg-London-New York 2000) p. 111–122.
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Full name of this intellectual concept: Phenomenology of Logos of Life and Human Condition.
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Cf. A.-T. Tymieniecka, “The New Enlightenment, A Review of Philosophical Ideas and Trends” vol. 32, (Hanover, New Hampshire, USA, 2008) p. 3–4, eadem: “The Moral Sense. A Discourse on the Phenomenologiae Foundation of the Social World” Analecta Husserliana, 1983, XV, p. 3–78; eadem: “The Moral Sense and the Human Person within the Fabric of Communal Life. The Human Condition of the Intersection of Philosophy, Social Practice, and Psychiatric Therapeutics. A Monographic Study” Analecta Husserliana, 1986. XX. p. 3–100.
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Cf. ibidem.
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Cf. ibidem.
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Cf. ibidem.
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Cf. ibidem.
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Cf. C. Cozma, “Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka’s ethics: an inspiration for the contemporary world” in: Phenomenological Inquiry. A Review of Philosophical Ideas and Trends. ed.: Patricia Trutt-Coohill, vol. XXXHI, October 2009, p. 23–34.
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H. Skolimowski, J.K. Górecki, Zielone oko Kosmosu. O filozofii w rozmowie i esejach (Elita 2, Wrocław 2005).
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Ibidem.
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Ibidem.
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Cf. E. Fromm, Rewolucja nadziei: ku uczłowieczeniu technologii (Warsaw, 1996); CG. Jung, Nowoczesny mit. O rzeczach widywalnych na niebie (Warsaw, 1982); A.J. Toynbee, Cywilizacja w czasie próby, (Wydawnictwo Prześwit), transl. W. Madej, (Warsaw 1991); J. Ortega y Gasset, “Rozmyślania o technice” [in:] Bunt mas i inne pisma socjologiczne, transl. P. Niklewicz (Warsaw 1982).
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H. Skolimowski, J.K. Górecki, Zielone oko Kosmosu. O filozofii w rozmowie o esejach, above-quoted edition, p. 44.
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Ibidem, p. 36.
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Cf. H. Skolimowski, Technika a przeznaczenie człowieka (Wrocław, 1996), p. 133.
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A. Skolimowski, J.K. Górecki, Zielone oko kosmosu. O filozofii w rozmowie i esejach, above-quoted edition., p. 143.
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Ibidem, p. 163.
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Ibidem, p. 162.
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Ibidem, p. 40.
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Ibidem, p. 129, 130.
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Ibidem, p. 207.
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Ibidem, p. 163.
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Ibidem, p. 130.
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Ibidem, p. 130.
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Ibidem, p. 77, 78, 129, 137, 164.
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Arnold J. Toynbee, Cywilizacja w czasie próby transl. Wojciech Madej (Wydawnictwo Przedświt, Warsaw 1991), p. 178.
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Ibidem, p. 179
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Cf. R. Penrose, The Basic of Quantum Mechanics (Cambridge University Press, 2000); P. Williams: Uncertain Journey (Publishing House, New York 2001); Janusz Czerny, Czy prawo Moore’a detronizuje osobę ludzką (Wydawnictwo KOS, Katowice 2005).
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Cf. A. Bronk [ed.], Filozofować dziś. Z badań nad filozofią najnowszą, (TN KUL Lublin 1995); Zygmunt Bauman, Keith Tester, Conversations with Zygmunt Bauman (Polity Press in association with Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 2001) Polish edition: O pożytkach z wątpliwości. Rozmowy z Zygmuntem Baumanem, transl. E. Krasińska (Wydawnictwo Sic!, Warsaw 2003); Człowiek i świat. Współczesne dylematy. Rozmowy Zdzisława Słowika (Biblioteka “Res Humana”, Warsaw 2007).
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Cf. inter alia Peter Singer, A Companion to Ethics (Basil Blackwell Ltd, 1991), Polish translation: Przewodnik po etyce, ed. by Peter Singer. Scientific editor of the Polish edition Joanna Górnicka (Książka i Wiedza, Warszawa 2000); Etyka wobec problemów współczesnego świata. ed. Halina Promieńska, above-quoted edition.
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Cf. A.-T. Tymieniecka, The Fullness of the Logos in the Key of Life, Book I, The Case of God in the New Enlightenment (Springer 2009), Polish translation: Życie w pełni Logos, Księga I, Metafizyka Nowego Oświecenia (Wydawnictwo Poznańskie, Poznań 2011).
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Szmyd, J. (2012). Modern Eco-Philosophy and Phenomenology of Life on Human Positioning in the Cosmos: A.-T. Tymieniecka and Henryk Skolimowski in Comparison. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Phenomenology and the Human Positioning in the Cosmos. Analecta Husserliana. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4795-1_1
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