Understanding life through its origins reveals the groundwork underlying the differentiations of its autonomous generative matrixes . Following the primogenital matrix of generation, the three generative matrixes of the specifically human sense of life establish humanness within the creative human condition as the existential sphere of sharing-in-life .

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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. The Origins of Life: The Existential Senses of Sharing-in-Life - Vital, Societal, Creative a Radically Novel Platform. Section I: Transitions of Sense: From the Vital Towards the Existential/Societal Sharing in Life. Atom and Individual; H. Matthai. Logos and Ethos in the Thought of Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (the Aspect of Beginning'); *M.P. Migón.* Perception and Perceptibility of Living Beings. An Attempt to connect Phenomenology and Ethics; *J.E.* *Hafner.* Life, Person, Responsibility; *A.A. Bello.* Values within Relations; *L. Pyra.* Creativity and Everyday Life - Ricoeur's Aesthetics; *R.D. Sweeny.* **Section II: The Surging of the Intentional** **Platform of Life.** The Human Arts and the Natural Laws of Bios: Return to Consciousness; *P. Mróz.* The Phenomenon of Loneliness and the Meta-Theory of Consciousness; *V. Borodulin, A. Vasliev.* Jung's Concept of Individuation and the Problem of Alienation; *M. Zowislo.* Human Dignity' as Rationality' - The Development of a Conception; *J.J. Venter.* On Emotion and Self-Determination in Max Scheler and Antoni Kepinski; *M. Pyka.* The Paradoxical Transformation of Existence: on Kierkegaard's Concept of Individuation; *A.C. Canan.* Multiple Persons in Kierkegaard's Pseudonymous Authorship; *V. Vevere.* **Section** **III: The Emergence of the Creative Sphere of Sharing in Life.** Human Existence as a Creative Process (A Commentary on Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka's Anthropological Reflection); *M.A.* *Cecilia.* The Methodologies of Life, Self-Individualization and Creativity in the Educational Process; *R.A. Kurenkova, et al.* Stimuli to Invention: New Technologies, New Audiences, New Images; *D.G. Scillia.* Stefan Zweig and his Literary Biographies; *C. Berthold.* The Artistic Event in the Space of Life as an Effect of the Interaction of Instincts, Feelings, Images and Spiritual; *J. Slosarska.* Reflections on the Everlasting and the Transient or the Road to the Freed Field of Light'; R. Kulis. Death and Ontology; E. Szumakowicz. Sein als `Position' und Ereignis &endash; Kants These über das Sein und Heidegger; T. Shikaya. Section IV: The Spirit of Creativity Soaring Towards the Sense of Beauty and Transcendence. Chinese Gardens: The Relation of Man to Nature in Seventeenth-Century French Culture; M. Kronegger. Life: The True, The Good, and The Beautiful. A Comparative Study of Greek and Pre-Qin Philosophies; L. Qingping. Towards an Aesthetics of Nature: Merleau-Ponty's Embodied Ontology; M. Van den Bossche. Ontology and Poetry (The Principles of Being of Creation); I.S. Fiut. Heaven's Angels with Grinding Organs: John Ruskin's Idea of Life; E. Supińska-Polit. Phenomenology and the Cubist Space; Z. Majewska. Du mortel à l'impossible éternel: La transcendence de la mort; J. Sivak. Section V: Time, World, and Hermeneutics. The Phenomenon of the Future as it was Constituted by Kierkegaard, Husserl and Heidegger; C. Bjurvill. Time as Viewed by Husserl and Heidegger; A. Pawliszyn. Postmodernism is Existential Phenomenology; J.I. Unah. Postmodernism as a Completion of Phenomenology and Hermeneutics; P. Gulda. The Human Being in the Liberal-Democratic Epoch; T. Buksiński. Six Para-Philosophical Exercises in Latvian Euro(onto)poiesis; A. Zunde. Appendix. Index of names.