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 LECTUREINSPIRATIONS OF HERACLITUS FROM EPHESUS FULFILLED IN OUR NEW ENLIGHTENMENTAnna-Teresa Tymieniecka SECTION I: PHENOMENOLOGY OF LIFE IN THE CRITIQUE OF REASONWAS PLATO A PLATONIST?Konrad RokstadTHE LIFE OF BEING REFOUND WITH THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF LIFE OF ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA. Daniela VerducciCRITIQUE 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 BucenieceWHAT WAS A CLASSIC UNTIL THE BEGINNING OF THE 20th CENTURY?Tansu Acik SECTION II: LOGOS AND LIFETHE EXISTENTIALISTIC SUBJECT OF TODAYSimen OyenRE-TURING TO THE REAL: PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROPRIATIONS OF PLATO'S 'IDEAS' AND THE ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE Robert SwitzerLIVING LIFE AND MAKING LIFEAndreas BrennerMAN'S WORLD AND LOGOS AS FEELINGManjulika GhoshFEAST OF LIFE OR FEAST OF REASON KIERKEGAARD VERSUS PLATOVelga VevereGIBT ES EIN MATERIALES APRIORI?" MIT SCHLICKS KRITIK AN DER PHANOMENOLOGIE UBER DAS VERHALTNIS ZWISCHEN SPRACHE UND VERNUNFT NACHZUDENKEN ANFANGENWei Zhang SECTION III: LOGOS AND EDUCATIONTHE IDEA OF PAIDEA IN THE CONTEXT OF ONTOPOIESIS OF LIFERimma Kurenkova, Evgeny Plekhanov, Elena RogachevaINTERNATIONAL DIMENTION OF JOHN DEWEY'S PEDAGOGY: LESSONS FOR TOMORROW Elena RogachevaTHINKING CONDITIONED BY LANGUAGE AND TRADITION Mara StafeckaHOW TO CONDUCT LIFE (ARETE AND PHRONESIS) J. C. Couceiro-Bueno SECTION IV: HUSSERL IN THE CONTEXT OF TRADITIONTHE REASON OF THE CRISIS. HUSSERL'S RE-EXAMINATION OF THE CONCEPT OF RATIONALITYWitold PlotkaLOGOS AS SIGNIFIER: HUSSERL IN THE CONTEXT OF TRADITION Koushik JoardarTHE AXIOLOGY OF ONTOPOIESIS AND ITS RATIONALITY Susi FerrarelloORIGINATING THE WESTERN WORLD: A CULTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY OF HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESSTonu ViikTHE RECOVERY OF THE SELF. PLOTINUS ON LOGOS AND SELF-COGNITION Magdalena PlotkaSOCIAL CONNOTATIONS OF THE CATEGORY OF THE IN THE LATE WRITINGS OF EDMUND HUSSERL VS. J. DERRIDA AND B. WALDENFELSCezary J. Olbromski SECTION V: COGNITION, CREATIVITY, EMBODIMENTPOUND, PROPERTIUS AND LOGOPOEIA Lars Morten GramPHENOMENOLOGY: CREATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE Klymet SelviPERSPICUOUS REPRESENTATION: A WITTGENSTEINIAN INTERPRETATION OF MARTIN HEIDEGGER'S VIEW OF TRUTHAydan TuranliORIGIN AND FEATURES OF PHYSICAL CREATIONS IN AN ONTOPOIETIC PERSPECTIVEMina Sehdev SECTION VI: NATURE, WORLD, CONTINUITYNATURE AND ARTIFICE IN MANIFESTING/PRODUCING THE BEINGFrancesco TotaroSEMIOTICS OF BEING AND UEXKULLIAN PHENOMENOLOGYMorten TonnessenTHE PLACE: WHERE WE SEE THE WORLD AS A LIMITED WHOLESibel OktarLINES FOR CONTEMPORARY CONSTRUCTIVISM TO REVISIT AND REINTEGRATE THE ANCIENT SENSE OF CONTINUITY BETWEEN MEN AND NATURECatia Giaconi SECTION VII: LOGOS AND THE SELFPAUL RICOEUR: CRITICAL CONSENT OF LOGOS TO LIFE - STOICISM AND ORPHISM IN QUESTION - Anibal FornariTHE PHENOMENOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE AND RELEVANCE OF THE REMINDERS ASSEMBLED AS LANGUAGE-GAMESErkut Sezgin'SOPHIA' AS 'TELOS' IN THE 'ONTOPOIETIC PERSPECTIVE' Carmen CozmaSELF AND WORLD: VEDANTA, SUFISM, AND PRESOCRATICS IN PHENOMENOLOGICAL VIEWOlga LouchakovaTRINITARIAN APPROPRIATIONS OF THE TRANSCENDENTALS: GIVENNESS AND INTENTIONALITY IN LEVINAS, MARION, AND TYMIENIECKAThomas Ryba SECTION VIII: CREATIVITY AND THE ONTOPOIETIC LOGOSBLANCHOT'S INAUGURAL POETICS: VISIBILITY AND THE INFINITE CONVERSATIONWilliam D. MelaneyLOVE OF LIFE, TRAGEDY AND SOME CHARACTERS IN GREEK MYTHOLOGYHalil TuranHUMOR IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF LOGOS: THE INSPIRATIONS OF ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHYAnna MaleckaTHE IDEAL AND THE REAL: BRIDGING THE GAPBrian GrassomHISTORICITY, NARRATIVE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MONSTROSITY IN JOHN GARDNER'S GRENDELFirat KaradasTHE POWER OF DANCE/MOVEMENT AS A MEANS OF EXPRESSIONAli Ozturk SECTION IX: INTERSUBJECTIVITY, FREEDOM, JUSTICEMAKING HISTORY OUR OWN APPROPRIATION AND TRANSGRESSION OF THE INTENTIONAL HISTORY OF HUMAN RIGHTSJohannes ServanVITALITY AND WOBBLINESS OF UNIVERSAL MORAL VALUES IN THE POST-MODERN WORLD: CREATIVITY AND REGULATIVE FUNCTION OF THE LOGOS OF LIFEJan SzmydA TRUE AND BETTER 'I': HUSSERL'S CALL FOR WORLDLY RENEWALMichael GubserTHE QUESTION OF THE SUBJECT: JAN PATOCKA'S PHENOMENOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTIONSaulius GeniusasONTOPOIESIS AND NARRATIVE ETHICS: AN ACUTUALIZATION OF ARISTOTLE'S ACCOUNT OF IMAGINATION Silvia Pierosara SECTION X: SEEKING THE LOGOS IN DIFFERENT CULTURESTHEOSIS AND LIFE IN NICOLAI BERDYAEV'S PHILOSOPHY Katarzyna StarkHARMONIOUS BALANCE: THE ULTIMATE PHENOMENON OF LIFE EXPERIENCE; A CONFUCIAN ATTEMPT & APPROACHTsung-I DowDANCE: WALKING AND SELF-MOVING IN HUSSERL AND MERLEAU-PONTYJonathon AppelsTHE SONGLINES: DREAMING THE ANCESTORS AND SUSTAINING THE WORLD IN ABORIGINAL ARTBruce Ross SECTION XI: CONTEMPORARY RETRIEVING OF THE PRINCIPLES OF THE UNIVERSAL ORDERLOGOS AND LIFE: UNDERSTANDING OF RHYTHMMaija KuleLIFE POWERFUL FORCE BETWEEN VIRTUALITY AND ENACTMENTClara MandoliniVISUALIZING TYMIENIECKA'S APPROACH WITH STRING THEORYPatricia Trutty-CoohillUNIVERSAL PRINCIPLES OF THE WORLD AND THE COORDINATE SYSTEM ON THE BASIS OF LIMIT DYNAMICAL EQUILIBRIUMNikolay KozhevnikovTHE 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 LIFEAttila Grandpierre INDEX OF NAMES PROGRAM FROM THE 60th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF PHENOMENOLOGY, LOGOS AND LIFE: PHENOMENOLOGY/ONTOPOIESIS REVIVING ANTIQUITY, HELD IN BERGEN, NORWAY, 2010 ANALECTA HUSSERLIANAVolume CXPHENOMENOLOGY/ONTOPOIESIS RETRIEVING GEO-COSMIC HORIZONS OF ANTIQUITYLOGOS AND LIFEEdited By: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka2011 Section IPHENOMENOLOGY OF LIFE IN THE CRITIQUE OF REASON Section IILOGOS AND LIFE Section IIILOGOS AND EDUCATION Section IVHUSSERL IN THE CONTEXT OF TRADITION Section VCOGNITION, CREATIVITY, EMBODIMENT Section VINATURE, WORLD, CONTINUITY Sect…