Life Energies, Forces and the Shaping of Life: Vital, Existential

Acknowledgements. The Theme. Inaugural lecture. The life-force or the shaping-of-life? A-T. Tymieniecka. Section I. Force and dynamism in Aristotle and Heidegger: Becoming what you are... to be; C. Hanley. Von der Sinnkrise und der Wichtigkeit der Bedeutung für das menschliche Leben; H. Tatematsu. Les passions de l'âme et l'Ontopoiesie de la vie; M. Kronegger. The notion of 'humanity' in Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka's anthropological thought; M.P. Migon. Georg Simmel between Goethe and Kant on 'Life' and 'Force'; P. Giacomoni. Section II. Paleoanthropology from a phenomenological point of view. Some remarks about the genetic structures of the human life; B. de Villers. The function of autotopoi in the modification of a subject's activity; J. Slosarska. The irreversibility of natural processes and the meaning of the second principle of thermodynamics; A. Marchesin. The natural-scientific and phenomenological approaches to animals; S. Lijmbach. On the dynamical unity of instrument and substance; D. Rothbart. Section III. Life, power and measure in Nietzsche's work; F. Totaro. Three models of human dynamic towards integrity: Eliade, Jung, Wilber; M. Zowislo. The dispute between Shestov and Husserl as a reflection of approaches to axiology; Z. Majewska. Mass-media communication as a possible creative source of new shapes of life; M. Sehdev. Section IV. Does time move? Dogen and the art of understanding the moment; D. Holbrook. Reductive and nonreductive theories of the self: the phenomenology of performance; W.S. Haney II. Evolving life: constant turnover from inconsistencies to intensities; K. Matsuno. A phenomenology of proper timing in ancient China; J.D. Sellman.African theory of forces and the extended family relations: a deconstruction; J.I. Unah. Section V. Giving form to life according to Max Scheler. Part I: Processes of functionalization and of work. Part II: Human perception as cooperation of vital and spiritual forces; D. Verducci. Worries of a human person at the turn of century in the light of the history of medicine; B. Maroszynska-Jezowska. Virtutes et potentiae: the medical-biological tradition in the formation of the philosophical anthropology of the thirteenth century; R. Martorelli-Vico. Philosophical thanatology as a foundation of contemporary medical ars moriendi; A. Alichniewicz. Nature as the source of life; L. Pyra. Section VI. Zur Bedeutung des 'Blickes' und des 'Antlitzes' bei Georg Simmel und Emmanuel Levinas; A. Model. Human dignity in weakness &endash; Gabriel Marcel's conception of human dignity; J.J. Venter. From the 'Ego' to the 'World' for a community ethic; I.A. Bianchi. Appendix.