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Impetus and Equipoise in the Life-Strategies of Reason

Logos and Life Book 4

Part of the book series: Analecta Husserliana (ANHU, volume 70)

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Table of contents (35 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxvii
  2. Following the Logos Through the Labyrinth of Life

    1. Following the Logos Through the Labyrinth of Life

      • Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
      Pages 1-27
  3. From the Elusive Primeval Logos to the Open-Ended Great Plan of Life

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29
    2. The Primeval Logos

      • Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
      Pages 31-47
    3. Life and Non-Life

      • Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
      Pages 49-73
    4. Life in Its Specifics

      • Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
      Pages 75-94
    5. The Manifestation of Life Through the Nature-Life Complex and Its Radius

      1. Tying Point One Nature-Life
        • Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
        Pages 97-130
  4. Embodiment and the Transformation of Sense

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
    2. The Gathering of the Dynamic Logoic Threads

      • Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
      Pages 153-159
    3. Voluminosity Crystalizing the Vital Dimension of Beingness

      • Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
      Pages 167-172
    4. Anticipating the Manifestation of The Logos of Life

      1. Metaphysics of Manifestation
        • Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
        Pages 187-195
  5. Manifestation and Differentiation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 207-207
    2. The Surging Manifestation of Life

      • Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
      Pages 209-214
    3. Ontopoietic Diversity and the Unity of Apperception

      • Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
      Pages 251-280
    4. The Great Plan of Life Anticipating the Triadic Logos

      1. The Esoteric Logos
        • Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
        Pages 283-288

About this book

Employing her original concept of the ontopoiesis of life, the author uncovers the intrinsic law of the primogenital logos - that which operates in the working of the indivisible dyad of impetus and equipoise. This is the crucial, intrinsically motivated device of logoic constructivism. This key instrument is engaged - is at play - at every stage of the advance of life. In a feat unprecedented in the history of western philosophy, the emergence and unfolding of the entire orbit of the human universe is shown to bear out this insight. Furthermore, the intrinsic rhythms of impetus and equipoise are taken as a guide in uncovering the workings of the logos all at once, in contrast to the piecemeal exposition of a single line of argument.
In a schema covering the entire career of beingness-in-becoming between the infinities of origin and destiny, an historically unprecedented harmonizing all sectors of rationality is accomplished in a span of reflection comparable to Spinoza's Ethics.
The work draws on interdisciplinary investigations in both science and the arts. All of the history of Occidental philosophy finds summary in it, even as feelers, guidelines, leitmotifs are thrown out for its future development. A landmark of Occidental philosophy at the turn of the millennium.

Authors and Affiliations

  • The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning, Belmont

    Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Impetus and Equipoise in the Life-Strategies of Reason

  • Book Subtitle: Logos and Life Book 4

  • Authors: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

  • Series Title: Analecta Husserliana

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0946-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6730-7Published: 31 December 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6731-4Published: 31 December 2000

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-0946-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0167-7276

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8330

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXVII, 684

  • Topics: Phenomenology, Philosophy, general, Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics, Modern Philosophy

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eBook USD 169.00
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Softcover Book USD 219.99
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Hardcover Book USD 219.99
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