Ethics and Metaphysics in the Philosophy of Edith Stein: Applications and Implications (Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences, 12)

Acknowledgements
Contents
1 Introduction
Part I Ethics
2 Edith Stein and Catholic Social Teaching
	2.1 Stein’s Interest in Social Issues
	2.2 Dignity of the Human Person
		2.2.1 Association
		2.2.2 Participation
		2.2.3 Solidarity
		2.2.4 Care of Creation
		2.2.5 The Neighbor
		2.2.6 Concluding Thoughts
	References
3 Putting the Emotion Back into Empathy: Edith Stein’s Understanding of Empathy Applied to Contemporary Issues
	3.1 Introduction
	3.2 Challenging Science
	3.3 Terrorism
	3.4 Stein’s Theory of Empathy
	3.5 Polish War Diaries
	3.6 Conclusion
	References
4 Mystical God-Forsakenness and the Ethics of Solidarity
	4.1 Stein as Mystic
	4.2 The Roots of a Steinian Mysticism: To Know and to Love God
	4.3 The Interior Roots of Ethical Action
	4.4 On Dark Contemplation and “Mystical God-Forsakenness”
	4.5 The Ethics of Solidarity and the Interior Life
	4.6 The Way of Benedicta of the Cross
	4.7 Conclusion
	References
5 Love Divined: Discerning a Contemplative Ethic in the Philosophy of Edith Stein
	5.1 Part One: Mindfulness: Empathy and Freedom at Work
		5.1.1 Empathy
		5.1.2 Freedom
	5.2 Part Two: The Heart of Matter
		5.2.1 Grace
		5.2.2 Purity of Heart
	5.3 Part Three: Discerning a Contemplative Ethic
		5.3.1 Call and Response
		5.3.2 Contemplation and Action as an Operative Force for Good in the World
		5.3.3 Discriminative Discernment
		5.3.4 Conclusion: Relational Awareness of Eternal Being
	References
6 Person in Community, Repentance, and Historical Meaning: From an Individual to a Social Ethics in Stein’s Early Phenomenological Treatises
	6.1 Introduction
	6.2 Value, Personal Unfolding, and Individual Ethics in the Early Stein
	6.3 The Sociality of Ethical Life: Meaning, Value, and Repentance in Stein’s Social Ethics
	6.4 Conclusion
	References
Part II Metaphysics
7 The Empathetic Gaze: A Steinian Approach to the Study of Religion
	References
8 Edith Stein’s Concept of Soul Revisited
	8.1 Stein Versus Aristotle on the General Vision of Soul
	8.2 Stein’s Appropriation of Teresa’s Model of Soul
	8.3 Aristotelian Response
	8.4 Language of Thomas on the Soul
	8.5 Spirit-Matter Versus Soul-Matter
	8.6 Conclusion
	References
9 The Relationship Between Good and Being in Edith Stein’s Metaphysics
	9.1 Introduction
	9.2 The Human Spiritual Dimension
		9.2.1 Essentiality, Essence and Actual-Real Being
		9.2.2 Essence and Singularity
	9.3 Theory of Being [Seinslehre]
		9.3.1 Essence, Existence, Creation
		9.3.2 From Essence to Existence
	9.4 “Moral Interiority”
		9.4.1 The Human Spirit as Self-knowledge
		9.4.2 The Human Spirit as Will
	9.5 Deus Trinitas as the Apex of Moral Love
	References
10 “Is” and “Ought” Reconciled
	10.1 Epistemology, Ontology, and Ethics—The “Is”
		10.1.1 The Epistemological Background
		10.1.2 The Necessity of Arguing Ontologically
		10.1.3 The Is-Ought-Conclusion in Acting
	10.2 Regaining the Existence and the Essence
		10.2.1 Regaining the Existence
		10.2.2 Regaining the Essence
		10.2.3 The Relevance of the Eidetic Analysis for Ethics
	10.3 The Moral Conclusion: The “Ought”
		10.3.1 The Duty of the Self—Autonomy
		10.3.2 Lost Values, Lost Meaning
		10.3.3 The Meaning as a Person
	10.4 Regaining the Value
		10.4.1 Stein following Thomas Aquinas and Max Scheler
		10.4.2 The Existential Human Existence
		10.4.3 Phenomenology as Access to Existential Truth
	10.5 Relevance of Stein’s Phenomenology in Ethics
		10.5.1 The Impact of the Analysis of Essence on Ethics
		10.5.2 The Ethics of Thinking
	References
11 The Problem of Evil in the Political Philosophy, Ethics, and Metaphysics of Edith Stein
	11.1 The Genesis and Disintegration of Forms of Human Sociality
	11.2 What is the Origin of Evil? Moral and Metaphysical Evil
	11.3 Evil and the Dimension of Politics
	References
12 Personal Identity: The Formation of Person in Edith Stein’s Thought
	12.1 Phenomenology and Anthropology
	12.2 The Structure of the Human Person
		12.2.1 The Core
		12.2.2 The Ego
		12.2.3 Body, Soul and Spirit
	12.3 The Formation of Human Being
	12.4 Conclusion
	References
Part III Applications and Implications
13 People and the State Community: Two Conflicting Forms of Sociality in Edith Stein’s Conception of A Priori Law
	13.1 Stein’s Early Phenomenology: The Sociality of  a People and the State
	13.2 Stein’s Münster Lectures
	13.3 Justifying the Concept of Humanity
	13.4 Implications of Eliminating A Priori Right and the State
	References
14 Beyond Ethics: Edith Stein on Suffering, Sacrifice, and Death
	14.1 Stein on Heidegger
	14.2 Life and Other Writings
	14.3 Conclusion: Hints for an Applied Existential Ethic
	References
15 Ontology and Relational Ethics in Edith Stein’s Thought
	15.1 Introduction
	15.2 Edith Stein on Relational Ontology
	15.3 Steinian Relational Ethics
	References
16 Crucible of Empathy: Nursing Service in World War I
	16.1 Introduction
	16.2 Setting the Scene
	16.3 Why Volunteer at All?
	16.4 What Was a WWI Lazaretto?
	16.5 Edith’s Postings/Assignments
	16.6 Typhoid Ward Work
	16.7 Surgical Ward Work
	16.8 Surgical Ward One
	16.9 Deepening Solidarity
	16.10 Frau Gronwerweg’s Intuition
	16.11 Calming Reassurance During Bombardment
	16.12 Reminiscence-Filled Challenge to Offer Help
	16.13 New “Sister” for the Suffering
	References
17 Edith Stein’s Understanding of the Personal Attitude: Applications and Implications for a New Ethics
	17.1 Introduction
	17.2 Stein’s Notion of the “Personal Attitude”
	17.3 Applications for New Paradigms of Empathy
	17.4 Conclusion: Implications of Edith Stein’s Critique of Empathy
	References
Index