Abstract
In its spontaneous swing, the logos springs forth in far ranging differentiations of each strain. The constructive/intergenerative proficiencies of a few among these multifarious corresponding differentiations coincide with each other. It is only through their constructive coincidence that they manifest themselves; the aborted formations remain in oblivion, the random strains do not enter into the immense workings of reason but remain at the fringes. The coincidence of the constructively/intergeneratively relevant strains of the sprouting logos accounts for its formative nucleus. And a nucleus it is because in gushing forth from within, reason in its spontaneous outpouring, it does not calculate its effects; its ever renewed wealth is prodigious. Were it not for a detectable formative outline that the coincidences seems to fall into, it would appear as if each plant sprouting from this wealth of seeds pollinates and fruits as a result of pure hazard. And yet, we observe the contours of recurring regulation in other strains of the logoic manifestation of living nature, such that allow for a coincidence and subtend it. Subtending the strains of the logos, they make a coincidence possible without depriving it of the game of fortuitous encounter.
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Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, “The Moral Sense: A Discourse on the Phenomenological Foundation of the Social World and of Ethics” in Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (ed.), Foundations of Morality, Human Rights, and the Human Sciences, Analecta Husserliana 15 (Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1983), pp. 3–78.
Ibid.
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Logos and Life, Book 1: Creative Experience and the Critique of Reason, Analecta Husserliana 24 (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988).
See Roman Ingarden, Time and Modes of Being, American Lecture Series, ed. Marvin Farber (Springfield, III.: Charles Thomas Publ., 1964), p. 123.
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Tymieniecka, AT. (2000). Life and Non-Life. 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_3
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