Deutsche Gesellschaft
für phänomenologische Forschung

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203077

Empathy as the understanding of spiritual persons

Edith Stein

pp. 91-118

Abstrakt

So far we have considered the individual "I" as a part of nature, the living body as a physical body among others, the soul as founded on it, effects suffered and done and aligned in the causal order, all that is psychic as natural occurrence, consciousness as reality. Alone, this interpretation cannot be followed through consistently. In the constitution of the psycho-physical individual something already gleamed through in a number of places that goes beyond these frames. Consciousness appeared not only as a causally conditioned occurrence, but also as object-constituting at the same time. Thus it stepped out of the order of nature and faced it. Consciousness as a correlate of the object world is not nature, but spirit.

Publication details

Published in:

Stein Edith (1989) On the problem of empathy. Washington, ICS Publications.

Seiten: 91-118

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-1051-5_4

Referenz:

Stein Edith (1989) Empathy as the understanding of spiritual persons, In: On the problem of empathy, Washington, ICS Publications, 91–118.