Autorentext
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".

Inhalt
I The Human Person and the Human Sciences.- The Moral Sense and the Human Person within the Fabric of Communal Life.- Psychiatry in Quest after Orientation.- The Moral Sense and Health Care.- On a Sociocultural Conception of Health and Disease.- The Education of a Medical Student.- II The Moral Sense in Psychiatry: the Switch From the Isolating Approach to that of Transacting with the other.- The Moral Sense and the Invisible Object.- The Genesis of a Purposeful Self.- The Unfolding ofBenevolent Sentiment as the Basis of Psychotherapy.- Clinical Phenomenology as theDe- mythologising of Psychiatry: The Movement toward the Other.- Theoretical Foundations of Psychiatry: The (K)not of Being as a (W)hole.- III Circuits of Communication.- A Phenomenological Approach to Language Acquisition and Autism in Terms of a Motor Unconscious.- Process Ethics and the Political Question.- IV Psychic Circuits of Sensibility and Morally Significant Spontaneities.- Natural Spontaneities and Morality in Confucian Philosophy.- Pathei Mathos The Knowledge of Suffering.- Le visible et le tangible comme paradigmes du savoir.- V The Life-World and The Specifically Moral Significance of the Communal/Social World.- The Constitution of the Human Community: Value Experience in the Thought of Edmund Husserl; an Axiological Approach to Ethics.- Inter subjectivity and the Value of the Other.- Phenomenological Conceptions of the Life-World.- Controversies about Humanism in Sociology.- The Function of Norms in Social Existence.- Chinese Values: A Sociologist's View.- The Moral A Priori and the Diversity of Cultures.- Index of Names.