The Origins of Life The Primogenital Matrix of Life and Its Context [Hardcover]

Life appears ungraspable, yet its understanding lies at the heart of current preoccupations. In our attempt to understand life through its origins, the ambition of the present collection is to unravel the network of the origin of the various spheres of sense that carry it onwards. The primogenital matrix of generation (Tymieniecka), elaborated as the fulcrum of this collection, elucidates the main riddles of the scientific / philosophical controversies concerning the status of various spheres that seek to make sense of life.Life appears ungraspable, yet its understanding lies at the heart of current preoccupations. In our attempt to understand life through its origins, the ambition of the present collection is to unravel the network of the origin of the various spheres of sense that carry it onwards. The primogenital matrix of generation (Tymieniecka), elaborated as the fulcrum of this collection, elucidates the main riddles of the scientific / philosophical controversies concerning the status of various spheres that seek to make sense 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 Lifel6