Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology on the Perennial Issue of Microcosm and Macrocosm

Acknowledgments.- Introduction: The Perennial and Contemporary Significance of the Great Analogy: Microcosm and Macrocosm.- Some Approaches to The Great Analogy.- The Microcosm/Macrocosm Analogy: A Tentative Encounter Between Graeco-Arabic Philosophy and Phenomenology.- The Microcosm/Macrocosm Analogy in IBN Sina and Husserl.- Hermann Lotze's Microcosm.- Connection of Microcosm with Macrocosm in Max Scheler's Philosophy: Man, Logos and Ethos.- Improvisation in The Dance of Life, The Microcosm and Macrocosm.- The Uncovering of The Microcosm-Macrocosm Setting of Life's Process: The Cosmological Expansion of Phenomenology's Notion of Evidence.- Creativity as The Principle of Differentiation.- Soul and Its Creations.- The Creative Transformation in Liu Chih's 'Philosophy of Islam'.- Man's Creativity/Viceregency in Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism.- The Sadrean Theory of The World of Divine Command.- Imagination and Its Worlds.- A Glance at The World of Image.- The World of Imagination.- The Sublime Visions of Philosophy: Fundamental Ontology and The Imaginal World.- The Circle of Life in Its Ramifications to The Divine.- The Circle of Life in Islamic Thought.- Between Microcosm and Macrocosm: Man at Work.- The Illuminative Notion of Man in Persion Thought: A Response to an Original Quest.- Metaphysics, Ontology, Cosmology.- Being and Necessity: A Phenomenological Investigation of Avicenna's Metaphysics and Cosmology.- Al-Suhrawardi's Doctrine and Phenomenology.- Martin Heidegger and Omar Khayyam on the Question of 'Thereness' (Dasein).- Appendix Programs of the Symposia.- Index of Names.

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka is a Polish-born American philosopher, one of the most important and continuously active contemporary phenomenologists, founder and president of "The World Phenomenology Institute".