Tymieniecka’s Philosophy of the Logos of Life: The Story of the Totality

Abstract

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka’s conviction was that co-operation between scientific inquiry and philosophy would provide links among the fragmentary discoveries of science. This dialogue will open fresh perspectives for a philosophical paradigm represented by the Phenomenology of Life. In this branch of phenomenology, life itself is the key point of reference, and being is represented as ‘beingness-in-becoming’. The evolutionary process of beingness ends in a specifically human phase, that of the human condition. It is creativity that plays a paramount role in all forms of human activity, and the human creative condition is present in all aspects of reality. In Tymieniecka’s philosophy the bond between nature, the human world and cosmic forces finds its representation in the principle of the ‘unity-of-everything-there-is-alive’. This viewpoint can be found intuitively expressed in the folk traditions and cultures of different nations across the world. One vivid example is the folk-poetry found in Latvian culture.