THE
PRINCIPAL PURPOSE and desired consequence of Institute
programs and publications is an ever deepening critical inquiry into
and understanding of the central and governing principles of Edmund
Husserl's phenomenology, both in their own terms and in terms of
their subsequent extension and contemporary disclosure and
development.
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The Institute shares the universalist impulse of
Husserlian phenomenology, which sought and aspired to the creation
of a mathesis universalis or universal science able to
maintain the fully integrated relation of various and diverse fields
of intellectual inquiry in a cohering and coherent worldview. The
range of Institute research interests and full dimension of
Institute programs and publications -- extending across the arts and
humanities, and reaching out toward the natural sciences--is
evidence of that ambitious and fundamental Husserlian premise and
philosophy.
The Institute similarly assumes as its own the
Husserlian injunction to phenomenological philosophers to serve as a
"functionary" or servant of human interests in a century
of cultural crisis and intellectual confusion. The philosopher
working in a phenomenological mode ought thus aspire to join that
which is falsely and arbitrarily disjoined, and in so doing
demonstrate the unity of human knowledge and the possibility of deep
communication and higher philosophical understanding.
It is to that end that the Institute organizes
and advances multidisciplinary events and encounters between
scholars drawn from various and distinct fields of higher education.
It is to that end as well that the Institute, in the person of
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, has traveled the world over three decades
in order to bring phenomenology to an ever increasing number of
world cultures and philosophical traditions.
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Tatematsu, Murata,
Tymieniecka, and Nitta
at the Salzburg Congress
(1978) |
The new millenium and new communication
technologies hold out the promise of an increasingly interconnected
and reciprocally engaged world community. Certainly the new
communication technologies have changed and enhanced the nature and
practice of philosophical inquiry to such a degree that an
international community of scholars and a "world"
institute are now more fully realizable than at any time in the
past. The Institute is joined to that effort, and in process of
further extending its participation in world intellectual culture
and further disseminating the methods and principles of advanced
phenomenological inquiry and understanding.
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