Logos differentiating reason and spirit in the phenomenology of Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
pp. 83-91
in: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (ed), Reason, spirit and the sacral in the new enlightenment, Berlin, Springer, 2011Abstract
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka's philosophy of life has been unfolding in a series of works, beginning with the her three volume work, Logos and Life. This article examines her latest work on the Sacred Quest and show how it develops out of vital life into sentient life into the Human Condition. Due to the organic nature of Tymieniecka's work, the early stages along life's way are described so that the reader can recognize how the Logos has been striving for the Sacral. In the recent work we see that the Human Condition is a platform for a qualitatively novel mode of being that turns out to have been the telos that has continually though surreptiously motivated the development of life. The Logos of Life is the engine that drives its advance, but this Logos is not to be confused with Reason. The Logos of Life serves as the reason for Reason in the bounty of Spirit.
