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At first sight, what could be more unexpected than to raise the question of a telos of the human being within the framework of Husserlian phenomenological research! Is it not the first aspiration of this type of philosophical approach to provide for the exfoliation of the constitutive system in which man and his universe emerge by direct intuition — both certain and indubitable — which permits “things” to speak for themselves, by offering them, as it were, a tongue by which to speak? Remaining on par with the nature (structure, essence, eidos…) intrinsic to things, this intuition presupposes their exhaustive self-interpretation. On the basis of this double premise and in the context of man’s self-interpretation, would there be a need to seek principles and external causes parallel to classical philosophy?
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See Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Leibniz’ Cosmological Synthesis (Assen: Royal Van Gorcum, 1964).
See Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, “Beyond Ingarden’s Idealism/Realism Controversy with Husserl: the New Contextual Phase of Phenomenology.” in Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (ed.), Ingardeniana, Analecta Husserliana 4 (Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1976). pp. 241–418.
Roman Ingarden, Der Streit um die Existenz der Welt, Vol. III (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1966).
See Tymieniecka, “Beyond Ingarden’s Idealism/Realism Controversy…,” op. cit., pp. 322–341.
Ibid.
See Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? (Assen: Royal Van Gorcum, 1966). pp. 13–25.
Ibid., pp. 77–90.
I have proposed the distinction between ‘construction’ and ‘reconstruction’ in “Self and the Other in Man’s Self-Interpretation.” in Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (ed.), The Self and the Other. The Irreducible Element in Man. Part I: The “Crisis of Man.” Analecta Husserliana 6 (Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1977). pp. 156–161.
See Tymieniecka, Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?, op. cit., pp. 23–71, 95.
Ibid., pp. 33–34.
Ibid., pp. 29–39.
Ibid., p. 33.
Ibid., pp. 77–158.
See Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, “The Initial Spontaneity.” in Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (ed.), The Crisis of Culture. Analecta Husserliana 5 (Dordrecht: D. Reidel. 1976). pp. 17–21.
See Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, “Imaginatio Creatrix,” in Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (ed.), The Phenomenological Realism of Possible Worlds, Analecta Husserliana 3 (Dordrecht: D. Reidel. 1974). pp. 3–41.
See Tymieniecka. “The Initial Spontaneity.” op. cit., pp. 21–26.
See Tymieniecka, “Imaginatio Creatrix,” op. cit., pp. 25–35.
See Tymieniecka, “The Initial Spontaneity.” op. cit., pp. 20–25.
See Tymieniecka, “The Self and the Other…,” op. cit., pp. 156–168.
I have developed these ideas in a treatise written between 1968 and 1970 and published as Logos and Life, Book 2: The Three Movements of the Soul, Analecta Husserliana 25 (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988).
See Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, “Hope and the Present Instant,” in Sebastian A. Matczak (ed.), God in Contemporary Thought (New York: Learned Publications; Louvain: Nauwelaerts: 1977), pp. 1082–1087.
See Tymieniecka, “The Self and the Other…,” op. cit.
Ibid., pp. 175–186.
See Tymieniecka, “Hope and the Present Instant,” op. cit.
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Tymieniecka, AT. (2000). Telos and Destiny. In: Impetus and Equipoise in the Life-Strategies of Reason. Analecta Husserliana, vol 70. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0946-1_26
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