Interpretative concentration on the rationality of the world around us ignores the body of work exploring our relations with the 'cosmos'. This book shows how the crucial link between the soul and the cosmos is being retrieved in contemporary philosophy.

The controversy of flux and stasis as the groundwork of reality of Greek ancient philosophy reached its crux in the all encompassing doctrine of the logos by Heraclitus of Ephesus. It centers upon human soul in its role with the cosmos. Philosophy of the Occident corroborating Greek insights with the progress of culture in numerous interpretations (Kant, Kierkegaard, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Ricoeur), presented in this collection has neglected the cosmic sphere. While contemporary development of science revealed its grounding principles (papers by Grandpierre, Kule and Trutty-Coohill) the ancient logos fully emerges. Thus, logos hitherto hidden in our commerce with earth is revealed in its intertwinings with the cosmos through the trajectories of the phenomenology/ontopoiesis of life (Tymieniecka). The crucial link between the soul and the cosmos, in a new geo-cosmic horizon, is thus being retrieved.

Continental philosophy continues to be rooted in the ancient Greek principle of the Logos, which subtends our conception of rationality of all things. However, the crucially significant for the Greek thought innermost essential linking between the human soul and the cosmos as the heart of metaphysics has not been significantly pursed, leaving an essential area of the Logos' dominion neglected. Contemporary science revealing the grounding principles of becoming uncovers the Logos hidden in our dealings with earth in its interlacings with the skies. Logos in the ontopoiesis of life opens through its trajectories of becoming its full horizon so long closed toward future of the fulfilled metaphysics.

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Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka is a Polish-born American philosopher, one of the most important and continuously active contemporary phenomenologists, founder and president of "The World Phenomenology Institute".

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INAUGURAL LECTURE.- INSPIRATIONS OF HERACLITUS FROM EPHESUS FULFILLED IN OUR NEW ENLIGHTENMENT Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka.-SECTION I: PHENOMENOLOGY OF LIFE IN THE CRITIQUE OF REASON.- WAS PLATO A PLATONIST? Konrad Rokstad.-THE LIFE OF BEING REFOUND WITH THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF LIFE OF ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA. Daniela Verducci.- CRITIQUE OF REASON PROJECTS WITH REFERENCE TO ANTIQUITY: I. KANT AND THE PLATONIC IDEAS, E. HUSSERL AND THE MNEMOSINEAN ENTICEMENT, A-T. TYMIENIECKA AND THE DYONISIAN LOGOS Ella Buceniece.- WHAT WAS A CLASSIC UNTIL THE BEGINNING OF THE 20th CENTURY?Tansu Acik.-SECTION II: LOGOS AND LIFE.-THE EXISTENTIALISTIC SUBJECT OF TODAYSimen Oyen.- RE-TURING TO THE REAL: PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROPRIATIONS OF PLATO'S 'IDEAS' AND THE ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE Robert Switzer.- LIVING LIFE AND MAKING LIFEAndreas Brenner.- MAN'S WORLD AND LOGOS AS FEELINGManjulika Ghosh.- FEAST OF LIFE OR FEAST OF REASON KIERKEGAARD VERSUS PLATO Velga Vevere.- GIBT ES EIN MATERIALES APRIORI?" MIT SCHLICKS KRITIK AN DER PHANOMENOLOGIE UBER DAS VERHALTNIS ZWISCHEN SPRACHE UND VERNUNFT NACHZUDENKEN ANFANGENWei Zhang.- SECTION III: LOGOS AND EDUCATION.- THE IDEA OF PAIDEA IN THE CONTEXT OF ONTOPOIESIS OF LIFERimma Kurenkova, Evgeny Plekhanov, Elena Rogacheva.-INTERNATIONAL DIMENTION OF JOHN DEWEY'S PEDAGOGY: LESSONS FOR TOMORROW Elena Rogacheva.-THINKING CONDITIONED BY LANGUAGE AND TRADITION Mara Stafecka.- HOW TO CONDUCT LIFE (ARETE AND PHRONESIS) J. C. Couceiro-Bueno.-SECTION IV: HUSSERL IN THE CONTEXT OF TRADITION.-THE REASON OF THE CRISIS. HUSSERL'S RE-EXAMINATION OF THE CONCEPT OF RATIONALITYWitold Plotka.- LOGOS AS SIGNIFIER: HUSSERL IN THE CONTEXT OF TRADITION Koushik Joardar.- THE AXIOLOGY OF ONTOPOIESIS AND ITS RATIONALITY Susi Ferrarello.-ORIGINATING THE WESTERN WORLD: A CULTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY OF HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESSTonu Viik.- THERECOVERY OF THE SELF. PLOTINUS ON LOGOS AND SELF-COGNITION Magdalena Plotka.- SOCIAL CONNOTATIONS OF THE CATEGORY OF THE IN THE LATE WRITINGS OF EDMUND HUSSERL VS. J. DERRIDA AND B. WALDENFELS Cezary J. Olbromski.-SECTION V: COGNITION, CREATIVITY, EMBODIMENT POUND, PROPERTIUS AND LOGOPOEIA Lars Morten Gram.-PHENOMENOLOGY: CREATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE Klymet Selvi.- PERSPICUOUS REPRESENTATION: A WITTGENSTEINIAN INTERPRETATION OF MARTIN HEIDEGGER'S VIEW OF TRUTH Aydan Turanli.- ORIGIN AND FEATURES OF PHYSICAL CREATIONS IN AN ONTOPOIETIC PERSPECTIVE Mina Sehdev.-SECTION VI: NATURE, WORLD, CONTINUITY.-NATURE AND ARTIFICE IN MANIFESTING/PRODUCING THE BEINGFrancesco Totaro.- SEMIOTICS OF BEING AND UEXKULLIAN PHENOMENOLOGY Morten Tonnessen.- THE PLACE: WHERE WE SEE THE WORLD AS A LIMITED WHOLE Sibel Oktar.-LINES FOR CONTEMPORARY CONSTRUCTIVISM TO REVISIT AND REINTEGRATE THE ANCIENT SENSE OF CONTINUITY BETWEEN MEN AND NATURE Catia Giaconi.-SECTION VII: LOGOS AND THE SELF.- PAUL RICOEUR: CRITICAL CONSENT OF LOGOS TO LIFE - STOICISM AND ORPHISM IN QUESTION - Anibal Fornari.- THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE AND RELEVANCE OF THE REMINDERS ASSEMBLED AS LANGUAGE-GAMES Erkut Sezgin.- 'SOPHIA' AS 'TELOS' IN THE 'ONTOPOIETIC PERSPECTIVE' Carmen Cozma.- SELF AND WORLD: VEDANTA, SUFISM, AND PRESOCRATICS IN PHENOMENOLOGICAL VIEW Olga Louchakova.-TRINITARIAN APPROPRIATIONS OF THE TRANSCENDENTALS: GIVENNESS AND INTENTIONALITY IN LEVINAS, MARION, AND TYMIENIECKA Thomas Ryba.-SECTION VIII: CREATIVITY AND THE ONTOPOIETIC LOGOS.- BLANCHOT'S INAUGURAL POETICS: VISIBILITY AND THE INFINITE CONVERSATION William D. Melaney.-LOVE OF LIFE, TRAGEDY AND SOME CHARACTERS IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY Halil Turan.- HUMOR IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF LOGOS: THE INSPIRATIONS OF ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY Anna Malecka.- THE IDEAL AND THE REAL: BRIDGING THE GAP Brian Grassom.-HISTORICITY, NARRATIVE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MONSTROSITY INJOHN GARDNER'S GRENDEL Firat Karadas.- THE POWER OF DANCE/MOVEMENT AS A MEANS OF EXPRESSION Ali Ozturk.-SECTION IX: INTERSUBJECTIVITY, FREEDOM, JUSTICE.-MAKING HISTORY OUR OWN APPROPRIATION AND TRANSGRESSION OF THE INTENTIONAL HISTORY OF HUMAN RIGHTS Johannes Servan.- VITALITY AND WOBBLINESS OF UNIVERSAL MORAL VALUES IN THE POST-MODERN WORLD: CREATIVITY AND REGULATIVE FUNCTION OF THE LOGOS OF LIFE Jan Szmyd.- A TRUE AND BETTER 'I': HUSSERL'S CALL FOR WORLDLY RENEWAL Michael Gubser.- THE QUESTION OF THE SUBJECT: JAN PATOCKA'S PHENOMENOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTION Saulius Geniusas.- ONTOPOIESIS AND NARRATIVE ETHICS: AN ACUTUALIZATION OF ARISTOTLE'S ACCOUNT OF IMAGINATION Silvia Pierosara.-SECTION X: SEEKING THE LOGOS IN DIFFERENT CULTURES.- THEOSIS AND LIFE IN NICOLAI BERDYAEV'S PHILOSOPHY Katarzyna Stark.- HARMONIOUS BALANCE: THE ULTIMATE PHENOMENON OF LIFE EXPERIENCE; A CONFUCIAN ATTEMPT & APPROACH Tsung-I Dow.-DANCE: WALKING AND SELF-MOVING IN HUSSERL AND MERLEAU-PONTY Jonathon Appels.- THE SONGLINES: DREAMING THE ANCESTORS AND SUSTAINING THE WORLD IN ABORIGINAL ART Bruce Ross.-SECTION XI: CONTEMPORARY RETRIEVING OF THE PRINCIPLES OF THE UNIVERSAL ORDER.- LOGOS AND LIFE: UNDERSTANDING OF RHYTHM Maija Kule.- LIFE POWERFUL FORCE BETWEEN VIRTUALITY AND ENACTMENT Clara Mandolini.- VISUALIZING TYMIENIECKA'S APPROACH WITH STRING THEORYPatricia Trutty-Coohill.- UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLES OF THE WORLD AND THE COORDINATE SYSTEM ON THE BASIS OF LIMIT DYNAMICAL EQUILIBRIUM Nikolay Kozhevnikov.-THE BIOLOGICAL PRINCIPLE OF NATURAL SCIENCES AND THE LOGOS OF LIFE OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY: A COMPARISON AND THE PERSPECTIVES OF UNIFYING THE SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE Attila Grandpierre.-INDEX OF NAMES.-PROGRAM FROM THE 60th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF PHENOMENOLOGY, LOGOS AND LIFE: PHENOMENOLOGY/ONTOPOIESIS REVIVING ANTIQUITY, HELD IN BERGEN, NORWAY, 2010.