Person and Dignity in Edith Steins Writings: Investigated in Comparison to the Writings of the Doctors of the Church and the Magisterial Documents of the Catholic Churc

Description

Edith Stein is widely known as a historical figure, a victim of the Holocaust and a saint, but still unrecognised as a philosopher. It was philosophy, however, that constituted the core of her life. Today her complete writings are available to scholars and therefore her thinking can be properly investigated and evaluated. Who is a human person? And what is his or her dignity according to Edith Stein? Those are the two leading questions investigated in this volume. The answer is presented based on the complete writings of the 20th-c. phenomenologist and, moreover, compared to the traditional Christian understanding of human dignity present in the writings of the Church Fathers and the Doctors of the Church as well as Magisterial Documents of the Catholic Church. In the final parts of the book, the author shows how Stein's ideas are relevant today, in particular to the ongoing doctrinal and legal debates over the concept of human dignity. Contents Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter One: Methodology Chapter Two: An Outline of Anthropological Themes in Edith Stein’s Writings Chapter Three: The Network of Anthropological Concepts in Edith Stein’s Philosophy Chapter Four: The Human Person in Edith Stein’s Philosophy Chapter Five: Human Dignity and Value in Edith Stein’s Writings Chapter Six: Human Dignity in the Writings of the Church Fathers of the Doctors of the Church Chapter Seven: Human Dignity in Contemporary Magisterial Documents and the Functionality of the Steinian Model of Dignity Bibliography Index of Terms