Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka’s phenomenology of life and its connections with Roman Ingarden’s phenomenology

Abstract

The aim of the article is to present those elements in classical phenomenology which inspired Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (1923 – 2014) to develop her own concept of the phenomenology of life and the creative human condition. There-fore, her philosophical position will not be presented with references to the key questions of transcendental phenomenology, since she never argued with Ed-mund Husserl. Tymieniecka clearly emphasized the fact that it was otherwise, claiming that she conducted a polemic on the ontological and metaphysical, and consequently also anthropological ground with Roman Ingarden (1893 – 1970) – her teacher and mentor from the time of philosophical studies at the Jagiello-nian University in Poland in 1945 – 1947. And this philosopher’s thought was the main reason for the phenomenological path she chose.