Life-energies, Forces and the Shaping of Life Vital, Existential: Book 1

includes index and biblioraphy

SECTION I CATRIONA HANLEY / Force and Dynamism in Aristotle and Heidegger: Becoming What You Are.. .To Be 3 HIROTAKA TATEMATSU / Von der Sinnkrise und der Wichtigkeit der Bedeutung fur das Menschliche Leben 19 MARLIES KRONEGGER / Les passions de 1`ame et 1`ontopoiesie de la vie 27 MIECZYSLAW PAWEL MIGON /The Notion of "Humanity" in Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka`s Anthropological Thought 41 PAD LA GIACOMONI / Georg Simmel Between Goethe and Kant on "Life" and "Force" 51 SECTION II BENEDICTE de VILLERS / Paleoanthropology from a Phenomenological Point of View. Some Remarks About the Genetic Structures of Human Life 71 JOANNA SLOSARSKA / The Function of Autotopoi in the Modification of a Subject`s Activity 83 ARTUROMARCHESIN /The Irreversibility of Natural Processes and the Meaning of the Second Principle of Thermodynamics 95 SUSANNE LUMBACH /The Natural-Scientific and Phenomenological Approaches to Animals 101 DANIEL ROTHBART / On the Dynamical Unity of Instrument and Substance 117 SECTION III FRANCESCO TOTARO / Life, Power and Measure in Nietzsche`s Work 137 MARIA ZOWISLO / Three Models of the Human Dynamic Towards Integrity: Eliade, Jung, Wilber 145 ZOFIA MAJEWSKA /The Dispute between Shestov and Husserl as a Reflection of Approaches to Axiology 159 MINA SEHDEV / Mass-Media Communication as a Possible Creative Source of New Shapes of Life 181 SECTION IV DWIGHT HOLBROOK / Does Time Move? Dogen and the Art of Understanding the Moment 193 WILLIAM s. HANEY ii / Reductive and Nonreductive Theories of the Self: The Phenomenology of Performance 201 KOICHIRO MATSUNO / Evolving Life: Constant Turnover from Inconsistencies to Intensities 215 JAMES D. SELLMANN/A Phenomenology of Proper Timing in Ancient China 233 JIM I. UNAH /African Theory of Forces and the Extended Family Relations: A Deconstruction 265 SECTION V DANIELA VERDUCCI / Giving Form to Life According to Max Scheler: Part I: Processes of Functionalization and of Work; 279 Part II: Human Perception as a Cooperation of Vital and Spiritual Forces BARBARA MAROSZYNSKA-JEZOWSKA /Worries of a Human Person at the Turn of the Century in the Light of the History of Medicine 299 ROMANA MARTORELLI VICO / "Virtutes et Potentiae": The Medical-Biological Tradition in the Formation of the Philosophical Anthropology of the Thirteenth Century 307 ANNA ALICHNIEWICZ / Philosophical Thanatology as a Foundation of Contemporary Medical Ars Moriendi 319 LESZEK PYRA / Nature as the Source of Life 329 SECTION VI ANSELM MODEL / Zur Bedeutung des "Blickes" und des "Antlitzes" bei Georg Simmel und Emmanuel Levinas 339 j.j. VENTER / Human Dignity in Weakness - Gabriel Marcel`s Conception of Human Dignity 351 IRENE ANGELA BIANCHI / From the "Ego" to the "World" for a Community Ethic 373