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Moral Excellence as Cosmicization of Human Beingness in the Ontopoietic Perspective

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Designing the core of Phenomenology of Life founded by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, “Ontopoiesis of Life” reveals a holistic and dynamical philosophy about the dialectical unity of logos-ethos-cosmos in the great plan of life. Grounded in the idea of firstness in existential formation by the continuous creative process of human becoming, the ontopoietic perspective opens to the understanding of moral excellence under the auspices of order and beauty that simultaneously define the cosmicization of human condition. It leads to structuring our endeavor of rising in the horizon of participation in the universal harmony, by appropriating the inward-outward oriented self-individualization through the workings of the “logos of life” in its multiple manifestations. We try to emphasize some articulations of the “Ontopoiesis of Life” as significant marks in developing our moral affirmation by following the ideal axis around which everything is harmonizing within the single whole: the cosmos.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    E.J. Bond, Ethics and Human Well-Being. An Introduction to Moral Philosophy, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 1996, pp. 208–209.

  2. 2.

    Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Romanian translation: Etica Nicomahică, Scientific and Encyclopedic Publishing House, Bucharest, 1988, 1095b.

  3. 3.

    Ibid., 1106a20–1107a.

  4. 4.

    Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Logos and Life, Book 4: Impetus and Equipoise in the Life-Strategies of Reason, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht/Boston/London, 2000, p. 598.

  5. 5.

    Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, “The Triumph of Imagination in the Critique of Reason”, in Analecta Husserliana, Volume LXXXIII, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht/Boston/London, 2004, p. xviii.

  6. 6.

    Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, “Imaginatio Creatrix, the Creative versus the Constitutive Function of Man and the Possible Worlds”, in Analecta Husserliana, Volume III, D. Reidel, Dordrecht, 1974, pp. 3–41.

  7. 7.

    Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Logos and Life, Book 4: Impetus and Equipoise in the Life-Strategies of Reason, op.cit., p. 598.

  8. 8.

    Plato, Timaeus, Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., Indianapolis IN, 2000. 53a–54b.

  9. 9.

    Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Logos and Life, Book 4: Impetus and Equipoise in the Life-Strategies of Reason, op.cit., p. 372.

  10. 10.

    Michel Henry, La barbarie, Editions Grasset, Paris, 1987.

  11. 11.

    See Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, The Fullness of the Logos in the Key of Life, Book I: The Case of God in the New Enlightenment, Springer, Dordrecht, 2009, pp. 181–211.

  12. 12.

    Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, “The Creative Self and the Other in Man’s Self-Interpretation”, in Analecta Husserliana, Volume VI, D. Reidel, Dordrecht, 1977, p. 161.

  13. 13.

    Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Logos and Life, Book 4: Impetus and Equipoise in the Life-Strategies of Reason, op.cit., p. 373.

  14. 14.

    Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, “The Moral Sense. A Discourse on the Phenomenological Foundation of the Social World and the Ethics”, in Analecta Husserliana, Volume XV, D.Reidel, Dordrecht, 1983, p. 40.

  15. 15.

    Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Logos and Life, Book 4: Impetus and Equipoise in the Life-Strategies of Reason, op.cit., p. 634.

  16. 16.

    Gary Backhaus, “Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka: The Trajectory of her Thought from Eidetic Phenomenology to the Phenomenology of Life”, in Phenomenological Inquiry, Volume 25, Belmont, Massachusetts, The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning, 2001, pp. 42; 41.

  17. 17.

    Max Scheler, Die Stellung des Menschen im Kosmos (1927); Romanian translation: Poziţia omului în cosmos, Paralela 45 Publishing House, Bucharest, 2001, pp. 39–41.

  18. 18.

    Max Scheler, Vom Ewigen im Menschen (1921); English translation: On the Eternal in Man, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1960, p. 74.

  19. 19.

    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”, in Analecta Husserliana, Volume XXIX, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1990, p. 16.

  20. 20.

    Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, “Measure and the Ontopoietic Self-Individualization of Life”, in Phenomenological Inquiry, Volume 19, Belmont, Massachusetts, The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning, 1995, pp. 26–27.

  21. 21.

    Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, “Transcendentalism Overturned: Life’s Geo-Cosmic Positioning of Beingness”, in Analecta Husserliana, Volume CVIII, Springer, Dordrecht/Heidelberg/London/New York, 2011, pp. 6–9.

  22. 22.

    Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, “Measure and the Ontopoietic Self-Individualization of Life”, op.cit., p. 26.

  23. 23.

    Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, The Fullness of the Logos in the Key of Life, Book I: The Case of God in the New Enlightenment, op.cit., pp. 197–199; 209.

  24. 24.

    Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Logos and Life, Book 4: Impetus and Equipoise in the Life-Strategies of Reason, op.cit., p. 10.

  25. 25.

    Ibid., pp.320–321. See also Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, The Fullness of the Logos in the Key of Life, Book I: The Case of God in the New Enlightenment, op.cit., pp. 231–255.

  26. 26.

    Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, “Inspirations of Heraclitus from Ephesus Fulfilled in Our New Enlightenment”, in Analecta Husserliana, Volume CX/Part I, Springer, Dordrecht/Heidelberg/London/New York, 2011, p. 9.

  27. 27.

    Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, “Transcendentalism Overturned: Life’s Geo-Cosmic Positioning of Beingness”, op.cit., pp. 9–10.

  28. 28.

    Maija Kūle, “Logos and Life: Understanding of Rhythm”, in Analecta Husserliana, Volume CX/Part II, op.cit., p. 682.

  29. 29.

    Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Officiis, Harvard University Press, Cambridge/London, 1913, I, 100.

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Cozma, C. (2014). Moral Excellence as Cosmicization of Human Beingness in the Ontopoietic Perspective. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Phenomenology of Space and Time. Analecta Husserliana, vol 116. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02015-0_2

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