Modern Eco-Philosophy and Phenomenology of Life on Human Positioning in the Cosmos: A.-T. Tymieniecka and Henryk Skolimowski in Comparison

Abstract

The article discusses the characteristic types of metaphysics of Nature and Life, man and morality, contained in "Phenomenology of Life" of A.-T. Tymieniecka and eco-philosophy of H. Skolimowski. These essentially different structures of ontological, anthropological, ethical and social thought are discussed with a premise that in the complex process of philosophical cognition of reality, different manners of "interpreting" and explaining the subject matter of study frequently lead to similar results. Meaningful examples of this speci fi c epistemological "af fl iction" are the philosophical concepts of nature and the human world [culture, civilization, morality] discussed in the article of the two leading co-creators of modern philosophy: A.-T. Tymieniecka and H. Skolimowski. The article shows similarities and differences in the theoretical and axiological/ normative stance of these two outstanding creative personalities and the warning, expressed unanimously by them, regarding the serious threats to the modern civilization and even the future of the human race, resulting from erroneous developmental premises and irrational directions of transformations in the collective and individual life in the globalizing world. One of the most important modern philosophies that provides broad and cogni-tively proli fi c theoretical contexts for explaining the reality impresses with respect to its structure and inventiveness of the developed theoretical concepts.