Table of contents

Acknowledgements

The life-force or the shaping-of-life?

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

15-34

Force and dynamism in Aristotle and Heidegger

Becoming what you are…to be

Catriona Hanley

3-18

Von der Sinnkrise und der Wichtigkeit der Bedeutung für das Menschliche Leben

Hirotaka Tatematsu

19-26

Les passions de l'âme et l'ontopoiesie de la vie

Marlies Kronegger

27-40

The notion of "humanity" in Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka's anthropological thought

Mieczysław P. Migoǹ

41-49

Georg Simmel between Goethe and Kant on "life" and "force"

Paola Giacomoni

51-68

Paleoanthropology from a phenomenological point of view

Some remarks about the genetic structures of human life

Bénédicte De Villers

71-82

The function of autotopoi in the modification of a subject's activity

Joanna Ślósarska

83-93

The irreversibility of natural processes and the meaning of the second principle of thermodynamics

Arturo Marchesin

95-100

The natural-scientific and phenomenological approaches to animals

Susanne Lijmbach

101-115

On the dynamical unity of instrument and substance

Daniel Rothbart

117-133

Life, power and measure in Nietzsche's work

Francesco Totaro

137-143

Three models of the human dynamic towards integrity

Eliade, Jung, Wilber

Maria Zowisło

145-157

The dispute between Shestov and Husserl as a reflection of approaches to axiology

Zofia Majewska

159-180

Mass-media communication as a possible creative source of new shapes of life

Mina Sehdev

181-189

Does time move?

Dogen and the art of understanding the moment

Dwight Holbrook

193-199

Reductive and nonreductive theories of the self

The phenomenology of performance

William Haney Ii

201-214

Evolving life

Constant turnover from inconsistencies to intensities

Koichiro Matsuno

215-231

A phenomenology of proper timing in ancient China

James Sellmann

233-263

African theory of forces and the extended family relations

A deconstruction

Jim Unah

265-276

Giving form to life according to Max Scheler

Daniela Verducci

279-297

Worries of a human person at the turn of the century in the light of the history of medicine

Barbara Maroszyńska-Jezowska

299-305

"Virtutes et potentiae"

The medical-biological tradition in the formation of the philosophical anthropology of the thirteenth century

Romana Martorelli Vico

307-318

Philosophical thanatology as a foundation of contemporary medical ars moriendi

Anna Alichniewicz

319-327

Nature as the source of life

Leszek Pyra

329-336

Zur Bedeutung des "Blickes" und des "Antlitzes" bei Georg Simmel und Emmanuel Levinas

Anselm Model

339-350

Human dignity in weakness

Gabriel Marcel's conception of human dignity

Venter

351-372

From the "ego" to the "world" for a community ethic

Irene A. Bianchi

373-386

Inaugural address to the third international congress of phenomenology/philosophy and the sciences of life

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

387-388

Index of names