STEINIANA: Revista de Estudios Interdisciplinarios

Feminidad y maternidad

2024-07-29T17:16:34+00:00

SPIRITUALITY: THE PLACE OF FREEDOM

2024-06-18T21:46:14+00:00

The development of this theme is based on Edith Stein's definition of the human person as a 'spiritual and free being' in her work 'Structure of the Human Person'. Throughout Stein's anthropology, the idea of the human being as a spiritual being is a recurring theme, with freedom emerging as a fundamental aspect of human development. A path that allows individuals to discover their inner life and deepest centre, where the self is at home and reaches its highest degree of freedom. Therefore, it is important to cultivate and foster spiritual development to enable individuals to realise their full potential and achieve the ultimate goal of life: union with God.

Yo, comunidad, libertad. En diálogo con Edith Stein.

2024-09-05T16:22:27+00:00

The paper examines the question of community within the thought of E. Stein. It addresses the relationship between the individual and the community and the role of personal freedom within that relationship. The differences and analogies between the person and the community and the importance that the latter has had in the reflection and existential choices of the phenomenologist are also emphasized.

Liberdade humana e graça: um diálogo entre Edith Stein e Karl Rahner

2024-08-29T16:54:46+00:00

Grace, as an undeserved gift, is the very free offering of the Triune God to human beings. Also, because it was created free, the human person received an inner disposition to "listen" to Revelation; on the other hand, because it is supernatural and undue, it exercises the use of its freedom. At the same time, such a demand leaves grace "hostage" to its creature because, on the way, it may face the only obstacle to divine omnipotence: human freedom. The objective of this article is to expose the theme of human freedom and grace within the interdisciplinarity between Christian Philosophy and Anthropology – with a phenomenological approach – by the philosopher Edith Stein (first section) and by the theologian Karl Rahner's transcendental Anthropology in his concept of supernatural Existential (second section). As a result, an understanding will be raised about communion between freedom and grace instead of the competition proclaimed today. From this union comes human liberation from opposition to God, as a prison in one's own "self," marking the human internal structure of openness and acceptance of the divine offer.

Um estudo sobre causalidade psíquica e motivação em Edith Stein como compreensão da liberdade humana na busca do sentido da vida

2024-08-29T13:59:25+00:00

This study analyzes the works of Edith Stein, focusing on the relationship between the concepts of “psychic causality” and “motivation” in the free process of searching for and realizing the meaning of life. It describes how vital psychic states manifest in consciousness and are divided into two levels: emotions and vital feelings. These states function as a continuum, influenced by the vital force, the link between experiences. Causalities, although not absolute, are probable and can motivate both the restoration and the emptying of the vital force, impacting the subjective experience of the individual who is always endowed with freedom. Consciousness, by capturing and distinguishing its experiences, improves the ability to recognize ways of searching for and giving meaning to life. Therefore, an integration with the works of Viktor Frankl was made from the perspective of Logotherapy. Thus, existential emptiness is often attributed to disconnection from experiences and a lack of understanding of the motivations that revitalize the vital force, which can result in pathological states, such as depression, that obscure the perception of existential meaning. The present study demonstrates that when consciousness captures and distinguishes its experiences, it makes the individual more capable of recognizing in himself and in the world ways of seeking and finding meaning in life.

The ideal of a 'perfectum opus rationis'. Edith Stein's understanding of the relationship between philosophy and (Christian) religion, between the natural knowledge of reason and the supernatural knowledge of (Christian) faith

2024-06-24T20:40:00+00:00

The philosopher and Christian saint Edith Stein (1891-1942) was intensely occupied and deeply moved by the question of the appropriate relationship between philosophy and religion, between the natural knowledge of reason and the supernatural (Christian) knowledge of faith. She developed her own concept for determining this relationship, which will be presented in this article on the basis of three of Stein's central texts. The first two texts are taken from the phase of Stein's life in which she had already converted to the Catholic faith but had not yet joined the Carmelite order. The third, latest text on the meaning and possibility of a Christian philosophy is taken from the introduction to her main philosophical work Finite and Eternal Being, which she wrote as a Carmelite between 1935 and 1937. From these texts, the outlines of the ideal of a complementary relationship between faith and reason may emerge, which Stein described as the ideal of a "perfectum opus rationis", i.e. a perfect work of reason. These three texts will be presented below in their chronological order in Stein's biography and systematically assessed with regard to their definition of the relationship between reason and faith, philosophy and religion.

Português

2024-01-23T15:17:04+00:00

Starting from the life of Edith Stein, we intend to approach the search for Truth, which she sought with determination and which she found in the person of Jesus Christ, as she herself acknowledges: "Whoever seeks the Truth seeks God, whether they are aware of it or not." This relentless search for Truth, embraced through faith after her conversion, is the basis on which she builds her thoughts and her life. Taking Truth itself as a path of search, we will begin with the immortalized question posed to Jesus by Pilate - What is Truth? (John 18:38) - which continues to resonate in the hearts of those who, like Edith, allow themselves to be challenged and, who, seeking answers, are finally found by her. In the shadow of this same Truth, we will discover, throughout Edith Stein's life, the reflection of her manifestations that "her mind never tired of investigating and her heart of hoping", as Saint John Paul II said, 25 years ago, at her canonization. In other words, we will attempt to uncover what those who seek Truth are looking for, identifying different phases in her life, grounded in this very truth, drawing on latin, greek, and hebrew concepts as the pillars that sustain and project the life of this extraordinary woman of the 20th century.

Edith Stein y la manualística tomista de principios del siglo XX

2024-05-08T19:21:10+00:00

The relationship between Edith Stein and the Thomistic thought of the early twentieth century could be configured as an attempt at reflective dialogue between positions that address the same issues, but with different methodological premises. It should be noted that the biographical component of the thinker cannot be overlooked in this matter, since academia and life are founded on the veritative intent of the same. Therefore, her relationship with Thomistic manualistics is relevant to discover what is proper to her thought, what differentiates her from Aquinas and what is her relationship with the thought that arose from the reflection on this medieval author.

Editorial

2024-12-16T13:56:23+00:00