The Origins of Life

Acknowledgements. The Theme: The Origins of Life/the Primogenital Religion of Sense. Overture. The Tree of Life in Aesthetic Inspiration. Leonardo's Sala Delle Asse and Sullivan's Organic Architecture; P. Trutty-Goohill. Inaugural Study. Origins of Life and the New Critique of Reason; A.-T. Tymieniecka. Creative Timber: Poets and Trees; N. Goldfarb. The Tree of the Credo: Symbolism of the Tree in Medieval Images of the Christian Creed; S.B. Simor. Section I: The Dialogue Between Life Sciences and Philosophy. The Origin of Life: Individuation and Evolutionism; V.S. Rai. On the Metaphysical Foundations of Life; B. Ogrodnik. Creative Emergence and Complexity Theory; A.J. Antonites. Contemporary Life Sciences and the Scientific Worldview; S. Spassov. On Some Problems Concerning Observation of Biological Systems; P. Lenartowicz, J. Koszteyn. Life-Space and Life-World: Merleau-Ponty on Situations; R. Zembahs. Section II: Primal Origin, Individuation, Interplay. The Construction of the Concept `The Omnividual'; B. Tjellander. The Mathematical Horizon of the Future; G. Graff, K. Dzediziul. The Individualism of Twentieth-Century Phenomenology and Existentialism; H. Szabala. Is Phenomenology as a Science Possible? Reading Heidegger's Viewpoint; W. Pawliszyn. Self-Interpretation of Time as a Rule of Individuation in Scheler's, Dilthey's and Heidegger's Concepts of Man; J. Brejdak. Section III: The Transitions of Sense: Body, Organism, Conscious Life. The Body and the Self-Identification of conscious Life, the Science of Man Between Physiology and Psychology in Maine de Biran; C. Canullo. The Reciprocity of Human Organism and Circumstance: An Ecological Approach to Understanding the Actions and Experiences of an Human Organism in its Environment; W.K. Rogers. Die Sprache des Traumes und der Traum der Sprache: Beitrag zur Phänomenologie der Träume in den kritischen Lebenssituationen; E. Syristova. The Connection Between Phenomenological Culture and the Clinical Practice of Psychiatry; B. Callieri. The Dyadics of Complementarity: Towards a New Vision of Reality; E.V. Altekar. Giving Form to Life: Processes of Functionalization and of Work in Max Scheler; D. Verducci. The Consciousness &endash; Corporeality Problem; S.V. Komarov. Death as a Limit of Phenomenology, the Notion of Death from Husserl to Derrida; J. Kauppinen. A Possible Reason for the `Fatal Vision' of the Famous American Surgeon Jeffrey MacDonald; J. Grzeszczuk. Reflexion and the Universal Structures of Consciousness; A. Kuzmin. Appendix: Program of the Gdansk Congress.