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I: Fundamentals of Moral Action -- Empirical and Intelligible Character in the Critique of Pure Reason -- Morality as Freedom -- On the Formalism of Kant's Ethics -- Agency and Anthropology in Kant's Groundwork -- The Submission of our Sensuous Nature to the Moral Law in the Second Critique -- II: Moral Practice and Knowledge -- Theory as Practice in Kant -- Autonomy, Omniscience and the Ethical Imagination: From Theoretical to Practical Philosophy in Kant -- The Interests of Reason: From Metaphysics to Moral History -- III: From Morality to Justice and History -- Kant's Principle of Justice as Categorical Imperative of Law -- Histoire et Guerre chez Kant -- Freedom as a Regulative Principle: On Some Aspects of the Kant-Herder Controversy on the Philosophy of History -- IV: Kant in Contemporary Contexts -- How Kantian is Rawls's "Kantian Constructivism"? -- The Ideal Speech Situation: Neo-Kantian Ethics in Habermas and Apel -- Kant: Respect, Individuality and Dependence.

Selforganization — the Convergence of Ideas. An Introduction -- I. Epistemological Foundations -- Science and Daily Life: The Ontology of Scientific Explanations -- Self-Organization, Emergent Properties and the Unity of the World -- On a Fundamental Paradigm Shift in the Natural Sciences -- The Cognitive Program of Constructivism and a Reality that Remains Unknown -- II. Selfreference and Selfregulation in Social Systems -- How the Law Thinks: Toward a Constructivist Epistemology of Law -- Self-Regulation in Social Systems -- Systemic Therapy — A Particular Drift Between Systems Theory and Psychotherapy -- Literary Systems as Self-organizing Systems -- Chekhov's Letter: Linguistic System and its Discontents -- III. The Appearance of Structure -- Concepts of Self-Organization in the 19th Century -- Cognitive Systems as Self-Organizing Systems -- IV. The Selforganization of Science -- Self-Organization and Autopoiesis in the Development of Modern Science -- The Selforganization of Science — Outline of a Theoretical Model -- Actor-Networks versus Science as Self-Organizing System: A Comperative View of two Constructivist Approaches -- Self-Organization and New Social Movements -- Person Index.

About the Origins of this Volume -- Section 1: Culture-Specific Psychosomatic Paradigms -- Are functional syndromes culture-bound? -- The Medical Anthropology of Viktor von Weizsäcker in the Present Clinical Context of Heidelberg -- Ethnomedical Fundaments in the Work of Viktor von Weizsäcker -- Phenomenology of the Body: The Subject-Object Problem in Psychosomatic Medicine and the Role of traditional Medical Systems herein -- Memory within the Body: Women's Narrative and Identity in a Southern Italian Village -- Section 2: Sociosomatics and Ethnicity -- The Symbolic and the Physiological: Epigastric Patients in Family Medicine in Flanders -- Nerves and Nostalgia: Greek-Canadian Immigrants and Medical Care in Québec -- The Development and Change of Health Research among Migrant Workers in West-Germany: Ideologies and Practice between 1956 and 1986 -- Section 3: Local Cultures of Biomedicine -- The Practice of Biomedicine and the Discourse on Hope: A Preliminary Investigation into the Culture of American Oncology -- Culture, Cancer, and Communication in Italy -- Images and Interpretations of Severe Illness: Ethnological Aspects of Dealing with Cancer -- Emil Kraepelin and the Origins of American Psychiatric Diagnosis -- Section 4: From Patients' Complaints to Cultural Narrative -- The Love-Lorn Consumptive: South Asian Ethnography and the Psychosomatic Paradigm -- Traditional European and Chinese Definitions of Illness and Medical Practice -- Section 5: Medical Systems and Cultural Change: An Analysis of Facts and Theories -- The Hierarchies of Medicines: A Contextual Analysis of Schismogenic Processes -- Cultural Constructivism: Sickness Histories and the Understanding of Ethnomedicines beyond Critical Medical Anthropologies -- Holistic Health and a Changing Western World View -- List of Contributors.

Foreground -- I / The Creative Act as the Point of Phenomenological Access to the Human Condition -- II / The Structure of the Present Work -- III / Man-The-Creator and His Triple Telos -- The First Panel of the Triptych the Eros and Logos of Life within the Creative Inwardness -- The Outlines of an Inquiry -- I / The Emergence of the Problem of Creation: The Poet-Creator Versus the Philosopher -- II / Creative Reality -- III / The Factors in the New Alliance Between Man and the World -- The Theoretical Results of Our Analyses and the Perspectives they Open the Creative Context -- Concluding by Way of Transition to the Central Panel of the Triptych -- The Central Panel of the Triptych (Panel Two) the Origin of Sense The Creative Orchestration of the Modalities of Beingness within the Human Condition -- One the Creative Context as Circumscribed by the Creative Process — its Roots "Below" and its Tentacles "Above" the Life-World: Uncovering the Primogenital Status of the Great Philosophical Issues -- I / Art and Nature: Creative Versus Constitutive Perception -- II / The Below and the Above of Creative Inwardness: The Human Life-World in its Essential New Perspective -- III / The Creative Process And The "Copernican Revolution" In Conceiving The Unity Of Beingness: The Creative Process As The Gathered Center and Operational Thread of Continuity among All Modalities of Being in the Constructive Unfolding of Man's Self-Interpretation-in-Existence -- Two the Trajectory of the Creative Ciphering of the Original Life Significance: The Resources and Architectonics of the Creative Process -- I / The Incipient Phase of the Creative Process -- II / The Creative Trajectory Between the Two Phases of the Life-World -- III / The Passage from the Creative Vision to the Idea of the Creative Work -- IV / Operational Architectonics of the Surging Creative Function in the Initial Creative Constructivism -- V / The Architectonic Logic in the Existential Passage from the Virtual to the Real — The Will -- VI / The Intergenerative Existential Interplay in the Transition Phase of Creativity -- Coda / Conclusive Insights into the Question of "Reality" as the Outcome of Our Foregoing Investigations -- Three the Creative Orchestration of Human Functioning: Constructive Faculties and Driving Forces -- I / The Surging of the Creative Orchestration within Man's Self-Interpretation-In-Existence: Passivity Versus Activity; The Spontaneous Differentiation of Constructive Faculties and Forces -- II / Imaginatio Creatrix: The "Creative" versus the "Constitutive" Function of Man, and the "Possible Worlds" -- Four the Human Person as the All-Embracing Functional Complex and the Transmutation Center of the Logos of Life -- I / The Notion of the "Human Person" at the Crossroads of the Understanding of Man within the Life-World Process -- II / The Moral Sense of Life as Constitutive of the Human Person -- III / The Poetic Sense: The Aesthetic Enjoyment which Carries the Lived Fullness of Conscious Acts -- IV / The Intelligible Sense in the Architectonic Work of the Intellect -- Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects -- Table of Contents to Book 2 (The Third Panel of the Triptych).