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Aroused by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka’s philosophy concerning the phenomenological interpretation process, we will proceed here to profile the relevance of ethics regarding the opportunities for “self-cognition,” “self-explication,” and “self-understanding” that man has in the horizon of inscribing the human in the life-world.
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Lucian Blaga, The Cosmological Trilogy / Trilogia cosmologică, in Works, volume 11, (Bucharest: Minerva, 1988), p. 59. Philosopher and poet, Lucian Blaga (1895–1961) is the author of a grandiose architectural system, his metaphysics focusing on the concept of “mystery” — a subtle means of access into the “truth” of existence and its revealing. Throughout his 4 Trilogies (of knowledge, of culture, of values, and the cosmological one), Blaga exposes his philosophy around the “mystery,” conceived as the “original horizon” of the “peculiar human mode to be.” He has introduced the idea of the “ontological mode” (in prolongation of the “biological” one) of the human being as “existence into mystery and toward its revelation,” which sustains man’s creativity, which confers to him singularity in the world. Through creation and historicity, man achieves his mission, which means, at the highest level, “self-creation”; that is, creation of the personality in nobleness and dignity, owing to the fact that man lives not (merely) in the horizon of the palpable and concrete world, but (especially) in that of the intelligible one, “the horizon of mystery,” which man feels an unabated need to reveal to himself.
Lucian Blaga, The Trilogy of Culture / Trilogia culturii, in Works, volume 9, (Bucharest: Ed. Minerva, 1985), p. 471.
Lucian Blaga, The Trilogy of Knowledge / Trilogia cunoaşterii, in Works, volume 8, (Bucharest: Ed.Minerva, 1983), p. 144.
Cf. Carmen Cozma, Introduction to Aretelogy / Introducerein aretelogie, “Al. I. Cuza” (Jassy: University’s Publishing House, 2001).
Carmen Cozma, Studies of Philosophy Educating Humanity / Studii de filosofie a educaţiei umanităţii (Jassy: Junimea Publishing House, 1997), p. 14.
Ibid.
Ibid., p. 157.
Cf. Mircea Eliade, Romanian Prophetism / Profetism Românesc, Ed. Roza Vinturilor, (Bucharest, 1990).
Cf. Immanuel Kant, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, Romanian translation, (Bucharest: IRI, 1995). More formally, Kant presented the following universal law formulation of the Categorical Imperative: “Act only according to the maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.” Another formulation of the Categorical Imperative, requiring the respect for man regarded as a person that possesses dignity (an absolute inner worth), is the following: “Act so that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of another, always as an end and never as a means only”.
Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Doctrines of Eminent Philosophers, Romanian translation, (Bucharest: Academiei Române, 1963), p. 354.
Cf. Stéphane Lupasco, L’homme et ses trois éthiques (Monaco: Éditions du Rocher, 1986). Romanian philosopher writing in French, Stéphane Lupasco (1900–1988) has developed an interesting ethics, deeply connected with his entire philosophy of the “three energies,” or “three matters” (as he called the physical, the biological, and the psychological forms in terms of the “dynamic logic of antagonism” applied to the comprehension of the world. Thus, the “T state” is the state equidistant to the two extremes in the matrix of potentialization-actualization, virtualization-achievement, “homogenization” (or identification) and “heterogenization” (or diversification), of “objectification” and “subjectification” — polarities between which the human existence is unfolded.
Cf. George Edward Moore, Principia Ethica (London: Cambridge University Press, 1903), Chapter VI, “The Ideal”.
Plato, Crito, in Works, volume I, Romanian translation (Bucharest: Scientific and Encyclopedic Publishing House, 1975), 53c.
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Phenomenology of Life and the New Critique of Reason: From Husserl’ s Philosophy to the Phenomenology of Life and the Human Condition, Analecta Husserliana, Volume XXIX, 1990, p. 3.
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, The Creative Self and the Other in Man’s Self-Interpretation, Analecta Husserliana, Volume VI, 1977, p. 173.
Ibid, p. 174.
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Phenomenology of Life and the New Critique of Reason: From Husserl’s Philosophy to the Phenomenology of Life and the Human Condition, loc. cit, p. 5.
Ibid., p. 7.
Ibid., pp. 6, 7.
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, The Creative Self and the Other in Man’s Self-Interpretation, loc. cit., p. 156.
Ibid., p. 154.
Ibid., pp. 157–158.
Dealing with the difficult issue of “meaning” — “the what it is really about of the text that we are attempting to discover and establish” — Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka notices that “the essential principle of meaningfulness remains inaccessible.” Cf. The Creative Self and the Other in Man’s Self-Interpretation, loc. cit., p. 167.
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, The Creative Self and the Other in Man’s Self-Interpretation, loc. cit., p. 161.
Ibid., pp. 161–167.
Ibid., pp. 163–164.
Ibid., p. 168.
Ibid.
Ibid., p. 177.
Ibid., p. 178.
Ibid., p. 189.
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Phenomenology of Life and the New Critique of Reason: From Husserl’s Philosophy to the Phenomenology of Life and the Human Condition, loc. cit., p. 9.
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, The Creative Self and the Other in Man’s Self-Interpretation, loc. cit., p. 155.
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Phenomenology of Life and the New Critique of Reason: From Husserl’s Philosophy to the Phenomenology of Life and the Human Condition, loc. cit., p. 9.
Ibid., p. 12.
Ibid., p. 13.
Ibid., pp. 13–14.
Ibid., p. 15.
Ibid., pp. 13, 15.
Ibid., p. 15.
Ibid., p. 16.
Ibid.
Ibid., p. 7.
Ibid., p. 12.
Ibid., p. 10.
Ibid., p. 9.
Ibid., p. 13.
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Cozma, C. (2004). Ethical Remarks Around the Specifically HUMAN Existence in the Phenomenology of Life. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Does the World Exist?. Analecta Husserliana, vol 79. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0047-5_2
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