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It is beyond denying that life has become the focal point of presentday philosophical investigation. And the question of life’s origins, in particular, once dismissed by philosophers as meaningless, is becoming the focal point of interest for science, one hiding a cluster of issues around which all scientific investigation turns, and on which they converge. And though some scientists are turning to philosophy for help, the door into life’s labyrinth remains closed.
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See inaugural study in Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (ed.), The Origins of Life I, Analecta Husserliana, Vol. LXVI (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers).
Cf. Francisco J. Varela and Jean-Pierre Dupuis Understanding the Origins, introduction, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992.
Cf. the prequoted study by A-T.T.
Ibid.
A-T. Tymieniecka, Logos and Life, Book I. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Analecta, Vol. 24.
A-T. Tymieniecka, “Moral Sense in the Social World,” Analecta Husserliana, Vol. 20, 1986.
Cf. the prequoted Logos and Life, Book I.
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Tymieniecka, AT. (2000). The Origins of Life. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) The Origins of Life. Analecta Husserliana, vol 67. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4058-4_1
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