Table Of ContentPAIDEIA
PHILOSOPHYLPHENOMENOLOGY OF LIFE
INSPIRING EDUCATION FOR OUR TIMES
ANALECTA HUSSERLIANA
THE YEARBOOK OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH
VOLUME LXVIII
Editor-in-ChieJ-
ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA
The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning
Belmont, Massachusetts
For sequel volumes see the end of this volume.
PAIDEIA
PHILOSOPHY /PHENOMENOLOGY
OF LIFE INSPIRING EDUCATION
FOR OUR TIMES
Edited by
ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA
The World Phenomenology Institute
Published under the auspices of
The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning
A-T. Tymieniecka, President
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ix
THE THEME / PhilosophylPhenomenology of Life Inspiring
Education for our Times xi
INAUGURAL STUDY
ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA / Ontopoiesis of Life as the
Measure for the Renewal of Education 3
SECTION I
ONTOPOIESIS OF LIFE AS THE NEW PHILOSOPHICAL PARADIGM
R. A. KURENKOVA, Y. A. PLEKHANOV, AND E. Y. ROGACHEVA /
"Methodologos" of Life as the Basis of Contemporary Education 25
FRANCIS JACQUES / Eduquer en Enseignant: Pour une Pedagogie
de la Competence Interrogative 35
OSVALDO ROSSI/Reading, Writing and Interpreting by Gadamer 59
HORST MATTHAI / Son Compatibles el Concepto de Paideia
y la Idea de 10 Absoluto? 75
SECTION II
UNITY-OF-EVERYTHING-THERE-IS-ALIVE AND HUMAN
CONSTITUTIVE ENGAGEMENT
W. KIM ROGERS / On the Ontology of Life: The Recent Contributions
of Tymieniecka, Gibson and Shotter to the Development of an
Ecological Approach to Philosophy 87
JOHANN E. V. HAFNER / Is Environmental Ethics a Collective Egoism
of Mankind?: Philosophical Investigation on the Difference Between
Self-Conservation and Self-Preservation 103
ELLA BlJCENIECE / The Art of the Liberation of Life and Philosophy
as Educator: F. Nietzsche, E. Husser!, Z. Maurina 115
VELGA VEVERE / Staging Life - Interpretation of Life in Kierkegaard's
Concluding Unscientific Postscript 131
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YUKIKO OKAMATO I The Life World and the Private Language 143
FRANCESCO TOTARO I Work and Unity in Human Life: Towards
a Global Anthropology of the Person 171
MARCELLO SANCHEZ SORONDO I Paideia as Being Oneself 185
MARIO CASULA I The Limits of Artificial Life 195
GARY OVERVOLD I Fractious Pluralism and Husserl's European
Reason 203
DANIELA VERDUCCI! Formative Processes of the Human Being
between Ontology, Ethics and Work: The Case of Max Scheler 215
AGNIESZKA NOGAL I The Concept of Life in Elzenberg's and
Scheler's Philosophical Investigations 231
JIM I. UNAH I Difficult Decision Situations: A Phenomenological
Ontology of Crisis Management 237
SECTION III
HUSSERL'S LATEST INVESTIGATIONS:
A BREAKTHROUGH INTO NATURE
ANGELA ALES-BELLO I Human World -Animal World: An
Interpretation of Instinct in Some Late Husserlian Manuscripts 249
ANTONIO DOMINGUEZ RE Y I Predicado en Busca de Sujeto:
La Nueva Lingtiistica de Jose Ortega y Gasset 255
ROBERT D. SWEENEY I Nature and Life in the Later Husserl:
Instinct and Passivity 287
SECTION IV
THE AESTHETIC OF ENCHANTMENT: LITERATURE,
FINE ARTS, THE SACRED
PATRICIA TRUTTY-COOHILL I Transcending the Visual: Listening
to Leonardo 301
CARMEN BALZER I Phenomenology and Hermeneutics of the
Ancient Mesoamerican Religions 317
JORGE GARciA-GOMEZ IOn the Foundations of the Poetry of Life:
Gerard Manley Hopkins on Self and World 337
RACHEL PERRY I "The Pleasures of Scratching": Matierisme's
Critique of Vision 357
GIORGIO PENZO I Individuality and the Crisis of Reason with
Regard to the Problem of the Sacred 373
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SECTION V
PHILOSOPHY IN THE WORLD
BRIAN E. BOWLES I Bringing Truth into Being: Merleau-Ponty and
the Task of Philosophy 387
J. C. COUCEIRO-BUENO I Ontofiction: The Altered Comprehension
of the World 399
J. SIVAK I Etre-dans-Ie Monde Chez Husserl 415
MARIA GOLASZEWSKA I Heroism-A Test ofIdeas 433
DECRIEM-FRANKSEN / La Praxis Ou "Le Travail du Negatif' dans
les Derniers Ecrits de Merleau-Ponty: Essai sur une
Hyper-Dialectique Ouverte de fa Chair Chiasmee 447
APPENDIX / Report - Phenomenology at the XXth World Congress
of Philosophy, Boston, August 10-16, 1998 473
INDEX OF NAMES 479
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This collection of studies originated at our program held at the 20th World
Philosophy Congress, August 1998, in Boston, MA, organised by the
International Federation of Philosophical Societies. In the appendix you will
find a report of the congress and our program.
We owe our warm thanks to all our participants who came from around the
world to bring their ideas to our common pool.
I want to thank our copy editor Kier Olsen De Vries and my assistants Jeff
Hurlburt and Louis Houthakker for their dedicated work in preparing the
volume for publication. And last, but not least, we are thankful to Rosemary
Lurasdini for the proofreading and preparation of the Index.
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THE THEME
PHILOSOPHY/PHENOMENOLOGY OF LIFE INSPIRING
EDUCATION FOR OUR TIMES
Concern about education is as old as humanity itself, and yet it seems as if its
roots have remained in place since Archaic Greek culture laid them down.
Each century in recorded history has marvelled at the astounding progress it
has made in understanding the nature of life and in creating new instruments
and practical devices to better equip humans for conducting their lives on
earth. Inventions like the wheel, plow, printing press, telephone, telegraph
and electricity have all had revolutionary impacts on human life. Since their
appearance, there have been calls to develop appropriate new ways to handle
them and to re-educate the population in using them to their best advantage.
Even as education has evolved in response to these new developments,
from its conception education has sought to take into account the human
being's interaction with the animal, natural, cosmic, communal, social, and
personal elements of life. The specifically human significance of life results
from this interaction, which has to be orchestrated and re-orchestrated anew
as life evolves.
Our present age has seen truly revolutionary upheavals in views about the
nature of human life from cosmic, natural and societal perspectives. In the
face of innumerable technological advances we are rethinking the educational
equipment that we, as individuals and as a collective, have received, are
receiving, and will receive to cope not only with what we have already
accomplished but also with our future advancements. The vast spread of new
instruments that have made it necessary for people to develop new skills but
remain ready to readjust or change those skills raises questions about how to
educate the individual; the great variety of the seemingly disconnected, novel,
and ever-improving factors of practical life is disconcerting from the per
spective of any theory that would try to bring them together. Is, however, the
panorama of educational problems as radically altered as it appears?
It is, then, no surprise that the theme of the 20th World Congress of
Philosophy, organized by the International Federation of Philosophical
Societies in Boston in August, 1998 has been "Paideia educating Humanity".
This theme has mobilized philosophers of all persuasions from around the
world. In the midst of innumerable sessions on innumerable topics, the World
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