Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka’s Way through Philosophy, Science and Art

Abstract

In the year 2000 the fourth volume of Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka’s monumental work appeared, entitled: “Logos and Life” (Tymieniecka, 2000). This great creative achievement is not only the fruit of more than 20 years of the Author’s philosophical search and quest, but the crowning achievement of her entire, impressively rich and creative career (Szmyd, 2000, pp. 378–384). The appearance of such a great and unusual work provokes again the question about Tymieniecka’s creative way, which led her to such a fundamental and deep creative achievement — an achievement unifying in cohesive synthesis essential research achievements from all the stages of the “way through philosophy, science and art.” This question is very much of immediate interest now, as a result of the fact that this very difficult and unique way, demanding both Herculean effort and Promethean devotion, proved very revelational and fruitful and has not been properly examined and explained by philosophy historians so far. But much has happened with this way, and it has led to a quite impressive point of destination (or perhaps it is only a point of passage), i.e. the aforementioned work “Logos and Life.”