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Ethical Remarks Around the Specifically HUMAN Existence in the Phenomenology of Life

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Does the World Exist?

Part of the book series: Analecta Husserliana ((ANHU,volume 79))

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Aroused by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka’s philosophy concerning the phenomenological interpretation process, we will proceed here to profile the relevance of ethics regarding the opportunities for “self-cognition,” “self-explication,” and “self-understanding” that man has in the horizon of inscribing the human in the life-world.

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  1. Lucian Blaga, The Cosmological Trilogy / Trilogia cosmologică, in Works, volume 11, (Bucharest: Minerva, 1988), p. 59. Philosopher and poet, Lucian Blaga (1895–1961) is the author of a grandiose architectural system, his metaphysics focusing on the concept of “mystery” — a subtle means of access into the “truth” of existence and its revealing. Throughout his 4 Trilogies (of knowledge, of culture, of values, and the cosmological one), Blaga exposes his philosophy around the “mystery,” conceived as the “original horizon” of the “peculiar human mode to be.” He has introduced the idea of the “ontological mode” (in prolongation of the “biological” one) of the human being as “existence into mystery and toward its revelation,” which sustains man’s creativity, which confers to him singularity in the world. Through creation and historicity, man achieves his mission, which means, at the highest level, “self-creation”; that is, creation of the personality in nobleness and dignity, owing to the fact that man lives not (merely) in the horizon of the palpable and concrete world, but (especially) in that of the intelligible one, “the horizon of mystery,” which man feels an unabated need to reveal to himself.

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  3. Lucian Blaga, The Trilogy of Knowledge / Trilogia cunoaşterii, in Works, volume 8, (Bucharest: Ed.Minerva, 1983), p. 144.

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  4. Cf. Carmen Cozma, Introduction to Aretelogy / Introducerein aretelogie, “Al. I. Cuza” (Jassy: University’s Publishing House, 2001).

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  5. Carmen Cozma, Studies of Philosophy Educating Humanity / Studii de filosofie a educaţiei umanităţii (Jassy: Junimea Publishing House, 1997), p. 14.

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  21. Ibid., p. 154.

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  23. Dealing with the difficult issue of “meaning” — “the what it is really about of the text that we are attempting to discover and establish” — Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka notices that “the essential principle of meaningfulness remains inaccessible.” Cf. The Creative Self and the Other in Man’s Self-Interpretation, loc. cit., p. 167.

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Cozma, C. (2004). Ethical Remarks Around the Specifically HUMAN Existence in the Phenomenology of Life. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Does the World Exist?. Analecta Husserliana, vol 79. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0047-5_2

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