1 M. Heidegger, Prolegomena zur Geschichte des Zeitbegriffs. Frankfurt a.M. 1979. GA 20. 236; zur "Gegebenheit", vgl. M. Heidegger, Grundprobleme der Phiinomenologie (1919120). Frankfurt a.M. 1993. GA 58. 127, 131-133. 2 M. Heidegger, Sein und Zeit. 10. Aufl. Ttibingen 1963. 94. 3 M. Heidegger, Die Grundprobleme der Phiinomenologie. Frankfurt a.M. 1975. GA 24. 77. 4 1m Folgenden beziehen sich die Seitenzahlen auf 1. Kant, Gesammelte Schriften. Akademieausgabe Bd. II. 5 Vgl. F. Suarez, Disputationes Metaphysicae. Paris 1866 (Nachdr.: Hildesheim 1965). disp. XXXI, sect. 6, 18: existentia rei absolute non est respectus, sed absolutum quid. 6 G. W. Leibniz, Die philosophischen Schriften. Hrsg. von C. I. Gerhardt. Berlin 1875-1890 (Nachdr.: Hildesheim 1978). Bd. VII. 293. 7 1) Bei Suarez fUgt die existentia, die nichts anderes als essentia in actu ist, der essentia niehts hinzu. Vgl. F. Suarez, Disput. Metaph. disp. XXXI, sect. 3, 5: Unde, si sit sermo de essentia in actu, nullo modo dici potest, juxta hanc sententiam, quod essentia existens addat existentiam supra essentiam in actu, quia essentia, quae est ens actu, formaliter et intrinsece includit existentiam; 2) Leibniz denkt, daB existentia mehr als essentia enthalte.

Klappentext
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.

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

Inhalt
Inaugural Essay.- 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.- Logos and Ethos in the Thought of Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka: The Aspect ofBeginning.- In Defense of a Moth. The Search for Foundations of Environmental Ethics.- Life, Person, Responsibility.- Values Within Relations.- Creativity and Everyday Life Ricoeur's Aesthetics.- Section II The Surging of The Intentional platform of Life.- The Human Arts and the Natural Laws of Bios: Return to Consciousness.- The Phenomenon of Loneliness and the Meta-Theory of Consciousness.- Jung's Concept of Individuation and the Problem of Alienation.- Human Dignity asRationality The Development of a Conception.- On Emotion and Self-Determination in Max Scheler and Antoni K?pi?ski.- The Paradoxical Transformation of Existence: On Kierkegaard's Concept of Individuation.- Multiple Persons in Kierkegaard's Pseudonymous Authorship.- 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.- The Methodologies of Life, Self-Individualization and Creativity in the Educational Process.- Stimuli to Invention: New Technologies, New Audiences, New Images.- Stefan Zweig and His Literary Biographies.- The Artistic Event in the Space of Life as an Effect of the Interaction of Instincts, Feelings, Images and Spiritual Transcendence.- Reflections on the Everlasting and the Transient or the Road to theFreed Field of Light.- Death and Ontology.- Sein als Position und Ereignis: Kants These über das Sein undHeidegger.- Section IV The Spirit of Creativity Soaring towards the Sense of Beauty and Transcendence.- au]Chinese Gardens: The Relation of Man to Nature in Seventeenth-Century French Culture.- Life: The True, the Good and the Beautiful: A Comparative Study of Greek and Pre-Qin Philosophies.- Towards an Aesthetics of Nature: Merleau-Ponty's Embodied Ontology.- Ontology and Poetry: The Principles of Being of Creation.- Heaven's Angels with Grinding Organs: John Ruskin's Idea of Life.- Du Mortel a l'Impossible Éternel: La Transcendance de la Mort.- Section V Time, World, and Hermeneutics.- The Phenomenon of the Future as It was Constituted by Kierkegaard, Husserl and Heidegger.- Time as Viewed by Husserl and Heidegger.- Postmodernism is Existential Phenomenology.- Postmodernism as a Completion of Phenomenology and Hermeneutics.- The Human Being in the Liberal-Democratic Epoch.- Six Para-Philosophical Exercises in Latvian Euro(onto)poiesis.- Index of Names.