A Philosophical Portrait of Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka: Logos and Life
摘要
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka was an outstanding personality who created a new school—phenomenology of life. Later it was named eco-phenomenology or philosophy of the New Enlightenment. Tymieniecka’s philosophical style was orientated to optimism, multi-layered system, value’s hierarchy, teleological process expressed into logos, aesthetical dimension interpreted by ontopoiesis, importance of life preservation and development of human individual capacities. Philosopher’s biography is adequate to her teaching—creativity, ontopoiesis expressed as her love for nature, wild flowers, woods, rivers, sea and meaningful places as home and gardens. Tymieniecka took philosophy into an unusual field, that is, following the logos through the labyrinth of life and cosmos. Human being should be interpreted as a Human Condition within the Unity of everything-there-is-alive. In this respect her teaching is useful for today’s eco-philosophy and for the practical programmes to harmonise human relationships with nature. Tymieniecka has emphasized the necessity to study Islam philosophy in the context of phenomenology of life. She attached importance to Illuminationism and Sufism. Tymieniecka disagreed with feminism but under her influence very many professional women-philosophers turned to life phenomenology thus stimulating gender balance in philosophy.