Logos and Life

Foreground.- I / Toward the Extended Phenomenology of The Soul: The Soul as the "Soil" of Life's Forces and the Transmitter of Life's Constructive Progress from the Primeval Logos of Life to Its Annihilation in the Anti-Logos of Man's "Transnatural Telos".- Section 1. The Husserlian Conception of the Human "Soul".- (a) Edmund Husserl brought the notion of the "soul" into particular prominence.- (b) Roman Ingarden proceeds in a similar vein.- Section 2. The Reversing of Direction: The Soul Within the Life-Context.- (a) The human soul in its own unique right breaks through the creative orchestration.- (b) The Soul within the life-context.- Section 3. The New Perspective: The Soul as the "Subliminal Soil" of Individualized Life.- Section 4. The Open-Ended Vibrating Nature of the Subliminal Soul.- Section 5. The "Three Movements of the Soul".- Section 6. A Perusal of the Phenomenological Approaches to the Study of Religion.- Section 7. The Phenomenology of "Inward Sacredness" in the Human Condition.- II / In Which the Principles of a New Phenomenological Explication of Spiritual Interiority, as Well as an Outline of its Philosophical Interpretation, are Proposed.- Section 1. The Spiritual "Phenomenon" and the Constituted World.- Section 2. The Spiritual Act versus the Constitutive Act of Human Consciousness.- Section 3. The Origin of the Autonomous Spiritual Act as Conjectured from Its Manifest Features.- Section 4. The Genesis of the Spiritual Act and Its Criteria for Validity as They Appear in the Perspective of the Objectivity of Life.- Section 5. The Double Telos of the Spiritual Act and the Attainment of the Fullness of a Transcending Act.- Section 6. Is there a Spiritual "Phenomenon"?.- Section 7. The "Spiritual Phenomenon".- Section 8. The Radical Phenomenological Precept: Fidelity to Pure Intuition.- One The First Movement of The Soul: Radical Examination.- I / "Radical Examination" and the Current of Man's Life.- Section 1. Two Modes of Systematic Examination in the Natural Current of Man's Life.- Section 2. The Common Coordinates of These Two Methods of Examination: The Irreversibility of Formative Advancement.- Section 3. The Counter-Current of Reflection on the Past, and the Perspectives of Interpretation.- Section 4. Some Interpretations, and the Identity of the Self.- Section 5. The First Movement of the Soul: Radical Examination.- II / The Second Movement of the Soul: Exalted Existence. The Discovery of the Finiteness of Life (Does the Soul Have Its Very Own Resources and Hidden Means for Passing beyond This Finitude ?).- Section 1. "Exalted Existence" and the Finiteness of Life.- Section 2. The "Sacred River".- Section 3. Understanding in Spiritual Life.- Section 4. The Laborious Origin of Intuition.- III / The Third Movement of the Soul: Toward Transcending.- Section 1. The Inauguration of the Spiritual Life.- Section 2. Intuitive Aspiration in Search of a "Passing Beyond" Finitude.- Section 3. Specific Resources: Continuity and the Work of the "Moment".- Section 4. The Quest for the Absolute.- Two Progress in the Life of the Soul as the Logos of Life Declines.- I / Inward "Communication".- Section 1. The Ways and Modes of Personal Communication.- Section 2. The Accent on Passive Opening and the Lived Results: Illusory "Communication" with Our Cosmic Origins (Cosmic Spirituality).- Section 3. The Accent on Dynamic Cooperation with the Work of Creation: Communication with Other People.- Section 4. The Death and Birth of Values in the Heart of Others.- Section 5. Pessimism Vanquished in the Creative and Heroic Effort of Existence: The Roots of the Soul in Vital Spontaneities.- Section 6. Love and Transcendence in the Work of Dostoyevsky.- II / "Personal Truth" and the Essential Point of Communiscation.- Section 1. Unilateral Confrontation.- Section 2. Communication in the Creative Effort.- Section 3. One Can also Point to "Metaphysical" Communication.- Section 4. Communication: The Impulse to Transcend the Contingent Boundaries Which Man Has Himself Created within and without.- Section 5. Man's Self-Ciphering Through Communication in the Sacred.- Three The Secret Architecture of the Soul.- I / The Establishment of the "Inward Sacredness" of the Soul's Quest.- Section 1. The "Vertebral Column".- Section 2. Discovery or Invention?.- Section 3. Creative Activity in the Pursuit of Spiritual Destiny.- Section 4. "Diem vivere": The Expansion of Ecstatic States; The "High Tonality" of the Soul.- Section 5. Criticism of Reason and the Discovery of the Complete Resources of Nature.- Section 6. The Motif.- (a) Motif and retribution.- (b) The motif and heroic existence.- (c) Loving Providence: The Unique Witness ("Divine Love" in the soul).- (d) The arch-motif of the transcending.- Section 7. Time and Eternity.- II / The Dianoiac Thread of the Logos Running Through Our Polyphonic Exploration of the Pursuit of Destiny: Creative Self-Interpretation between the Self and the Other.- Section 1. A Reprise of the Critique of Reason and a Reproach to Inadequate Critiques: Creativity in the Ciphering of Inward Sacredness.- Section 2. Closure of the Critique of Reason / The Phenomenology of the Creative Act of Man as the Key to the Unity of Reason within Life's Constructive Spread.- (a) A Copernican Revolution at the Heart of Phenomenology.- (b) The Archimedean Point of the Unity of Reason within Life's Constructive Spread.- Notes.- Index of Names.- of Book 1.