Reason, Life, Culture

1. Front Matter

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2. Inaugural Lecture

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Metaphysics of Manifestation and Reason Logos in the Individualization of Life, Sociability, and Culture

      • Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

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3. Rationality and Consciousness

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Silence as a Cultural Phenomenon

      • Maija Kūle

      Pages 13-21

   3. Phenomenology and the Consequences of Postmodernity

      • Calvin O. Schrag

      Pages 23-31

   4. Reason and Reasoning: Husserl’s Way

      • A. Zvie Bar-On

      Pages 33-40

   5. Transcendental Reality: Positive Expression

      • Gennady Chepovetsky

      Pages 41-49

   6. The Phenomenological Being of Rationality

      • Karlis Rutmanis

      Pages 51-62

   7. “Man Strides along the Solar System . . .” Human Existence in the Poems of Anise Koltz

      • Rosemarie Kieffer

      Pages 63-84

4. Personality and the Inner Self in the Moral Significance of Life

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85

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   2. Emotional a Priori and Moral-Metaphysical Meanings of Max Scheler’s Phenomenology

      • Larisa Chuhina

      Pages 87-105

   3. The Notion of “The Person” in A-T. Tymieniecka’s Thought

      • Mieczysław Pawel Migoń

      Pages 107-116

   4. Personality and Culture: Phenomenology and Phenomenological Anthropology

      • Wojciech Jerzy Bober

      Pages 117-126

   5. Critique of Reason in Tymieniecka’s The Three Movements of the Soul

      • Mary-Rose Barral

      Pages 127-138

   6. The Inner Moral Self in Tymieniecka’s Vision

      • Krystyna Gorniak-Kocikowska

      Pages 139-154

   7. Morals and Ethics in Phenomenology: The Moral Sense of Phenomenological Philosophy

      • Māra Rubene, Andris Rubenis

      Pages 155-169

5. Rationality and Valuation

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Reason and Culture

      • Mihály Vajda

      Pages 173-180

   3. Values in Cognition and Evaluation

      • Helena Gourko

      Pages 181-191

Rationality in its various expressions and innumerable applications sustains understanding and our sense of reality. It is traditionally differentiated according to its sources in the soul: in consciousness, in reason, in experience, and in elevation. Such a functional approach, however, leaves us searching for the common foundation harmonizing these rationalities. The perennial quest to resolve the aporias of rationality is finding in contemporary science’s focus on origins, on the generative roots of reality, tantalizing hints as to how this may be accomplished. This project is enhanced by the wave of recent phenomenology/ontopoiesis of life, which reveals/expresses the workings of the logos at the root of beingness and all rationality, whereby we gaze upon the prospect of a New Enlightenment. In the rays of this vision the revival of the intuitions of classical Islamic metaphysics, particularly intuition of the continuity of beingness in the gradations of life, receive fresh confirmation.

• Edmund Husserl
• Jean-Paul Sartre
• Martin Heidegger
• Max Scheler
• ethics
• morality
• phenomenology

• The World Phenomenology Institute, USA

  Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

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