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

241 Pages·2022·3.202 MB·English

by  Michael F. Andrews (editor), Antonio Calcagno (editor)

Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences 12
Michael F. Andrews
Antonio Calcagno   Editors
Ethics and
Metaphysics in
the Philosophy
of Edith Stein
Applications and Implications
Women in the History of Philosophy
and Sciences
Volume 12
SeriesEditors
RuthEdithHagengruber,DepartmentofHumanities,CenterfortheHistory
ofWomenPhilosophers,PaderbornUniversity,Paderborn,Germany
MaryEllenWaithe,ProfessorEmerita,DepartmentofPhilosophyandComparative
Religion,ClevelandStateUniversity,Cleveland,OH,USA
GianniPaganini,DepartmentofHumanities,UniversityofPiedmont,Vercelli,Italy
As the historical records prove, women have long been creating original
contributions to philosophy. We have valuable writings from female philosophers
from Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and a continuous tradition from the
Renaissancetotoday.Thehistoryofwomenphilosophersthusstretchesbackasfar
as the history of philosophy itself. The presence as well as the absence of women
philosophersthroughoutthecourseofhistoryparallelsthehistoryofphilosophyas
awhole.
Edith Stein, Hannah Arendt and Simone de Beauvoir, the most famous
representatives of this tradition in the twentieth century, did not appear form
nowhere. They stand,sotospeak,ontheshoulders ofthefemaletitanswhocame
beforethem.
The series Women Philosophers and Scientists published by Springer is of
interestnotonlytotheinternationalphilosophycommunity,butalsoforscholarsin
historyofscienceandmathematics,thehistoryofideas,andinwomen’sstudies.
Moreinformationaboutthisseriesathttps://link.springer.com/bookseries/15896
·
Michael F. Andrews Antonio Calcagno
Editors
Ethics and Metaphysics
in the Philosophy of Edith
Stein
Applications and Implications
Editors
MichaelF.Andrews AntonioCalcagno
DepartmentofPhilosophy DepartmentofPhilosophy
LoyolaUniversityChicago King’sUniversityCollegeatWestern
Chicago,USA University
London,ON,Canada
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Therearetwoscholars—dearfriendsand
inspiringmentors,really—withoutwhomthis
work,andtheentirecorpusofStein
scholarship,wouldbetremendously
diminished,ifevenpossibleatall.Itiswith
thedeepestgratitude andimmensejoyfor
theircollegialspirit,sharingofresources,
professionalsupport,andespeciallytheir
friendshipthatthisbookisdedicatedin
memoriam:
Sr.JosephineKoeppel,OCD
and
Rev.MichaelLinssen,OCD
Acknowledgements
This book would not have been possible without the encouragement of Dr. Ruth
Hagengruber and Dr. Mary Ellen Waithe. Their work on the history of women
philosophers and scientists has created a shift in consciousness, bringing to light
theworkofimportantwomenphilosopherslikeEdithStein.Wearealsogratefulfor
theeditorialworkofKarenEnns,whoreadandeditedanumberofessayscontained
inthisvolume.Heracuity,care,andgracewithlanguagehavehelpedtransmitthe
ideasandthoughtsofEdithStein.
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Contents
1 Introduction .................................................. 1
MichaelF.Andrews
PartI Ethics
2 EdithSteinandCatholicSocialTeaching ........................ 15
MarianMaskulak
3 Putting the Emotion Back into Empathy: Edith Stein’s
UnderstandingofEmpathyAppliedtoContemporaryIssues ...... 29
MelindaJolly
4 MysticalGod-ForsakennessandtheEthicsofSolidarity .......... 43
JacobW.Torbeck
5 Love Divined: Discerning a Contemplative Ethic
inthePhilosophyofEdithStein ................................ 55
MicheleKueterPetersen
6 PersoninCommunity,Repentance,andHistoricalMeaning:
From an Individual to a Social Ethics in Stein’s Early
PhenomenologicalTreatises .................................... 73
WilliamE.Tullius
PartII Metaphysics
7 TheEmpatheticGaze:ASteinianApproachtotheStudy
ofReligion .................................................... 91
L.R.Lovestone
8 EdithStein’sConceptofSoulRevisited .......................... 105
SarahBordenSharkey
ix
x Contents
9 TheRelationshipBetweenGoodandBeinginEdithStein’s
Metaphysics .................................................. 121
MartinaGalvani
10 “Is”and“Ought”Reconciled ................................... 133
MariéleWulf
11 The Problem of Evil in the Political Philosophy, Ethics,
andMetaphysicsofEdithStein ................................. 151
AngelaAlesBello
12 PersonalIdentity:TheFormationofPersoninEdithStein’s
Thought ...................................................... 159
AnnaMariaPezzella
PartIII ApplicationsandImplications
13 PeopleandtheStateCommunity:TwoConflictingForms
ofSocialityinEdithStein’sConceptionofAPrioriLaw .......... 173
AntonioCalcagno
14 BeyondEthics:EdithSteinonSuffering,Sacrifice,andDeath ..... 187
MaryJ.Gennuso
15 OntologyandRelationalEthicsinEdithStein’sThought .......... 201
PaulinaMonjarazFuentes
16 CrucibleofEmpathy:NursingServiceinWorldWarI ............ 211
JohnSullivan
17 Edith Stein’s Understanding of the Personal Attitude:
ApplicationsandImplicationsforaNewEthics .................. 225
MichaelF.Andrews
Index ............................................................. 241
Chapter 1
Introduction
MichaelF.Andrews
EdithStein’scontributionstoethicsandmetaphysicspresupposeacoherentphilo-
sophical framework by which human experience can be explored and thematized.
According to a rich and apperceptive methodology rooted in phenomenological
descriptionsofsocialreality,EdithSteinproposesexcitingandinnovateapproaches
to contemporary ethics of value, care, and reciprocity, at once both dialogical in
a Husserlian sense while remaining metaphysically congruent with the perennial
philosophyofSt.ThomasAquinas.Thissynthesisisnotaccidental;itreflectsthetwo
greatcodicesthatmarkEdithStein’sformativetrainingintermsofphenomenology
andscholasticism,philosophyandtheology,ethicsandmetaphysics.Inthiscollec-
tion of essays, some of the most respected international scholars on Edith Stein
explore various ethical and metaphysical influences at play in the development of
herthought.Thegoaloftheseessaysisneithertopresentacomprehensivesystemof
ethicsandmetaphysicsdrawnfromEdithStein’svariousphilosophicalandtheolog-
ical treatises, nor to propose a particular systematic approach towards interpreting
Edith Stein. On the contrary, this book serves as a lacuna to open-up new levels
ofdiscourseandmeaningsteepedwithinStein’sscholarlywritings.Theessaysare
writtenwithboththescholarandthecasualreaderinmind.Theyservetointroduce
Stein’stheoryofsocialconstitutiontoageneralaudienceaswellasexplorecreative
newinitiativesforfurtherprofessionalresearch.
Investigatingethicalandmetaphysicalthemespreviouslyunaddressedincontem-
porary Stein scholarship offers a significant contribution towards understanding
the complex development of Edith Stein’s creative thoughts and impulses. At the
sametime,exploringethicalandmetaphysicalimplicationsinStein’sliterarycorpus
willhelpscholarsevaluatehercontributionstowardsapplyingthemesandtopicsin
connectionwiththosedevelopedbyseveralofhercontemporaries,includingEdmund
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M.F.Andrews( )
DepartmentofPhilosophy,LoyolaUniversityChicago,Chicago,USA
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