APPROCHES PHÉNOMÉNOLOGIQUES DU PHÉNOMÈNE DE LA VIE
PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH THE PHENOMENON OF LIFE

Summary/Abstract: The phenomenon of life indicates a worrying problem for all philosophies of consciousness, because the living activity of an organism surpasses obviously the constituting capacity of the observer’s consciousness. Although phenomenology is a philosophy of consciousness, it has a lot to say about the problem of life. The article aims to outline the main possible ways of a phenomenological approach to life: it distinguishes noematic, noetic, egoic and horizontal approaches. Even if the diversity of these possible ways can not be unified in a general theory of life, the analyis of the different approaches seems to offer a good starting point for an interdisciplinary (philosophical and scientific) treatment of the problem.

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