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Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, the author of Logos and Life, Book 3, The Passions of the Soul and the Elements in the Onto-Poiesis of Culture, draws one’s attention to connections between the primordial Light and the Logos of Life within the human being, the life-world and the wider setting of culture (viz., literature, art, science, etc.). In Tymieniecka’s Tractatus Brevis, Section Two, Chapter One bears the title “The Primeval Light and The Birth of The Life-World” and Chapter Two, is titled “The Passions of Light”. These chapters, especially will be the focus of our analyses.
“... O Light Invisible, we praise Thee! Too bright for mortal vision. O Greater Light, we praise Thee for the less, The eastern light our spires touch at morning The light that stants upon our western doors at evening The twilight over stagnant pools at batflight, Moon light and star light, owl and moth light, Glow-worm glowlight on a grassblade. O Light Invisible, we worship Thee!....”
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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A-T. Tymieniecka, Logos and Life,Book 3: The Passions of the Soul and the Elements in the Onto-Poiesis of Culture, Analecta Husserliana, Vol. XXVIII (Dordrecht Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990), pp. 33–34. (Hereinafter, LL 3).
C.A. van Peursen, Phenomenology and Reality,Duquesne Studies Philosophical Series 30 (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1972), pp. 214–238. See also: Helmut Kuhn, “The Harvard University Press, 1940), pp. 106–123; H. Pietersma, ”The Concept of Horizon,“ in Analecta Husserliana,Vol. II (Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1972), pp. 278–282. In Pietersma’s opinion, the clearest statements of Husserl on the notion of ”horizon“ are found in the following texts: Husserliana,Vol. VIII, pp. 146–152; Husserliana, Vol. XI,pp. 3–15; Experience and Judgement,Par. 8.
A-T. Tymieniecka, “Measure the Ontopoietic Self-Individualization of Life,” in Phenomenological Inquiry, Vol. 19 (October, 1995 ), p. 40.
Heraclitus of Ephesus: Fragments B89, and Fragments B I7, B22, B34, B72, B73, B114, (according to H. Diels, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 4th ed. (Berlin: 1922). See also G. S. Kirk and J. E. Raven, The Presocratic Philosophers (Cambridge: 1960); A-T. Tymieniecka, LL 3, p. 82.
A-T. Tymieniecka, Logos and Life, Book 1: Creative Experience and the Critique of Reason, Analecta Husserliana, Vol XXIV ( Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988 ), p. 445.
A-T. Tymieniecka, Logos and Life,Book 2: The Three Movements of the Soul or the Spontaneous and Creative in Man’s Self-Interpretation-in-the Sacred, Analecta Husserliana,Vol. XXV (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988), p. 13. Note among earlier philosophers: Nicolai Hartmann (in his Ethik ed. 4th [Berlin: de Greuyter, 1962], especially. Part 3, Chap. 2, Chap. 2, Sec. 71: “Zur ontologischen Gestzlichkeit als Basis der Freiheit,” pp. 678–685), Max Scheler (in his “The Forms of Knowledge and Culture,” in Philosophical Perspectives,trans. Oscar A. Haac [Boston: Beacon Press, 1958], p. 14) and Cardinal Karol Wojtyla (at present, John Paul II) (in the Acting Person, Analecta Husserliana,Vol. X [Dordrecht: O. Reidel Publishing Company, 1978], p. 256; p. 315) and others paid attention on the communal connection between the “higher” and the “lower” man.
Cf. Saint Thomas Aquinas, On Being and Essence, trans. A. Maurer ( Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1949 ).
According to H. G. Stoker. “Im spezifischen Gewissenssinn ist das echte Gewissen/ oder: sind die echten Gewissensregungen/ nur die reelle innere Kundwerdung des Personalbösen, sei es zur Verwirklichung drangend/ wie im ”warnenden Gewissen,“/ sei es prinzipiell möglich, aber reell verneint/ wie im ”guten Gewissen“. H.G. Stoker, Das Gewissen. Erscheinungsformen und Theorien ( Bonn: Verlag von Friedrich Cohen, 1925 ), p. 210.
Cf. Simone Weil, La Connaissance Surnaturelle, Collection Espoir, dirigee par Albert Camus ( Paris: Editions Gallimard, 1950 ).
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, “Eye and Mind,” in: Phenomenology, Language and Sociology, Selected essays ed. by John O’Neill (London: Heinemann Educational Boks Ltd., 1974 ), p. 307.
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Migoń, M.P. (1999). The Onto-Poiesis of Life in Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka’s Phenomenology. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Life Scientific Philosophy, Phenomenology of Life and the Sciences of Life. Analecta Husserliana, vol 59. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2079-3_2
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