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As recurrently pointed out, the great issue which philosophy shares with all branches of knowledge and practice is that of the “differentiation and unity” of everything there is. In Antiquity budding scientific research shared with philosophical reflection its main points of departure, ways of approach, and key points of orientation within the universe of human being. Then with Kant and later with Husserl philosophy took its very own course, namely, one that treated the issue of the differentiation and unity of all there is with reference to human modes of constituting reality, that is, with reference to consciousness. Husserl, as we know, ultimately conceived of consciousness in relation to the life-world, that is, to the ways in which conscious being spreads its existential tentacles through the contexture of the world.
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See A-T. Tymieniecka (ed.), “Life’s Primogenital Timing,” Life, Phenomenology as the Starting Point of Philosophy, Inaugural Lecture, pp. 3–22, Analecta Husserliana, Vol. 50, III
A-T. Tymieniecka (ed.), “Life’s Primogenital Timing,” Life, Phenomenology as the Starting Point of Philosophy, Inaugural Lecture, pp. 3–22
See A-T. Tymieniecka, “Metaphysics and Manifestation” and “Reason–Logos in the Individualization of Life, Sociability and Culture,” Reason, Life, Culture, Part 1, 3–10, Analecta Husserliana, Vol. 39
See Jacques Monod, Le hasard et la necessité, Essai sur la philosophie naturelle de la biologie moderne (Paris: Editions du Seul, 1970)
See A-T. Tymieniecka, “The First Principles of the Phenomenology of Life,” Analecta Husserliana, Vol. 21
See A-T. Tymieniecka, Why is There Something Rather than Nothing? Prolegomena to the Phenomenology of Cosmic Creation (Assen, Holland: Royal van Gorcum, 1968)
Quoted after R. Virchow, “Atom and Individual,” Disease, Life and Man, Selected essays, translated by D. Leather, page 39 (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 1958)
R. Virchow, “Atom and Individual,” Disease, Life and Man, Selected essays, translated by D. Leather, (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 1958), p. 124
R. Virchow, “Atom and Individual,” Disease, Life and Man, Selected essays, translated by D. Leather,(Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 1958), p. 129
See Roberto Canullo, “Plants and the Problem of the Individual,” Analecta Husserliana, Vol. 57
Roberto Canullo, “Plants and the Problem of the Individual,” Analecta Husserliana
Cf. Francesco Moiso, “De Candolle et Goethë” in S&TP, II series, 1996
Hedwig Conrad-Martius, “Die Seele der Pflanze”, in Bücher der neuen Biologie, Bd. II, Franke 1934
For “The Great Plan,” A-T. Tymieniecka, Analecta Husserliana, Vol. 52 (1997)
See the article by K. A. Akins, in Marc Bekoff and Dale Jamieson (eds.), Readings in Animal Cognition (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996), pp. 346–358
K. A. Akins, in Marc Bekoff and Dale Jamieson (eds.), Readings in Animal Cognition (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996), pp. 346–358, for a discussion on the behavior of the bat
For “The Vigilant Ray” see A-T. Tymieniecka, Analecta Husserliana, Vol. 48
Cf. Orazio Ciancio and Susanna Nocentini discuss in their study: “The New Silviculture: Epistemological Considerations,” Analecta Husserliana, Vol. 59 The “autonomy” of the forest is built upon all of its vegetation. The forest is conceived of as an “autopoietic system,” that is, as a system which “can subordinate structural changes to the conservation of its own organisation.”
In view of the need to reconcile the autonomy of the lowest, that is, simplest form of beingness or organism, with the autonomy of the more complex forms which they build up, there was proposed the concept of the “superorganism” or “complex organism” by Frederick Clements, already in 1904: The Development and Structure of Vegetation, quoted by Ciancio; see note 18
A-T. Tymieniecka, Logos and Life, Book 1: Creative Experience and the Critique of Reason, Analecta Husserliana, Vol. 24
With this life-oriented conception of the constructive entelechial NUCLEUS and DESIGN we have struck at the very heart of the ontological conception of Ingarden, in which the individual is seen as a transcendental object within the ideas is analytically unfolded in. Roman Ingarden, Spor o Istnienie Swiata, Vol. 1 (Warsaw: PAN, 1960), pp. 361-390
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Tymieniecka, AT. (1998). Differentiation and Unity: The self-Individualizing Life Process. In: Kronegger, M., Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Life. Analecta Husserliana, vol 57. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5240-2_1
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