James G. Hart Livres

Focusing on the metaphysical philosophy of nature, this introduction explores Hedwig Conrad-Martius's realist phenomenological perspective on significant issues in modern theoretical biology and physics. It presents innovative theories regarding space, time, development, and evolution. The work appeals to those interested in the phenomenological movement's history and religious cosmology, offering fresh insights into the interconnectedness of philosophy and science in the twentieth century.

In this book, the author explores the complexities of self-identity, contrasting the existential "I" with normative personal-moral identity. It delves into how we define ourselves in critical moments and the connection between self-determination, love, and our true essence, ultimately urging readers to honor their inherent worth and lineage.

This Husserl-based social ethics claims that the properly philosophical life -- i.e. one lived within the noetic-noematic field -- is not cut off from action. Indeed, the ethical and political dimensions of the person are disclosed through various reductions. At the passive-synthetic level as well as at the higher founded levels of personal constitution a basic sense of will emerges, the telos of which is a godly intersubjective self-ideal. This `truth of will' is inseparably an `ought' and an `is' involving moral categoriality as a way of letting the good of others be part of one's own. Both moral categoriality and the polis actuate the latent first-person plural dative of manifestation which emerges with a common world. Thereby they actuate also senses of the common life which can develop to community as a higher-order person. This leads to a eutopian anti-statist theory of the polis and common good which has affinity with some communitarian-anarchist and `Green' views.