Finite and Eternal Being: An Attempt at an Ascent to the Meaning of Being

Edith Stein

ICS Publications, 2002 - Philosophy - 625 pages

"this volume, "written by a beginner for beginners" bears the imprint of the extraordinary intellectual and spiritual journey of its author, one of the most remarkable women of the twentieth century. born in Breslau into a practicing Jewish family in 1891, Edith Stein abandoned her faith as a teenager and later became a key figure among the early disciples of Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenology. ........." [from back cover]

Contents

• INTRODUCTION: 1
• ACT AND POTENCY AS MODES OF BEING: 31
• Temporality: 38
• ESSENTIAL AND ACTUAL BEING: 61
• 4 The Nature Wesen and Its Object Gegenstand Nature: 73
• 10 Universals: 97
• 12 Essential and Eternal Being: 105
• ESSENTIA OUSIA: 121
• and Ousia: 127
• Ousia Its Composition of Form and Matter: 133
• Nature Essence Universal and Genus: 145
• 3 Form and Matter: 153
• Nutrition Considered as an Example of the Formation: 183
• 4 A Summary Discussion of the Concept of Form: 219
• Pure Form and Essential Form Considered: 227
• The Mutual Relationship of Form and Matter in: 234
• 5 Concluding Summary of the Inquiry into the Nature: 267
• 1 Retrospect and Prospect: 277
• 4 The Transcendentals Preliminary Survey: 283
• 6 The Existent as One unum: 289
• 11 The Truth of Judgment: 298
• 13 Divine Truth: 305
• 16 The Interrelation Between Truth and Goodness: 311
• 18 The Full Meaning of the Good and the True: 317
• THE MEANING OF BEING: 325
• 2 Transcendental Determinations and the Full Meaning: 331
• A Comparison between the Relationship of the Creator: 348
• THE IMAGE OF THE TRINITY IN THE CREATED WORLD: 355
• 3 The Human BeingPerson Das menschliche Personsein: 363
• Spirit: 378
• 6 Meaning and Fullness Form and Matter The Contrast: 417
• 8 The Image of the Trinity in NonPersonal Animate: 424
• Soul: 434
• 10 The Difference Between the Image of God in Rational: 464
• 2 A Critical Appraisal of the Thomistic Doctrine on: 471
• Subsistence Selbstand Individual Being Einzelsein: 487
• 3 Some Reflections on the Meaning of Human Individual: 504
• Notes: 545
• Index: 615

About the author

 Edith Stein, born on October 12, 1891, of Jewish parents, converted to Catholicism and was baptized on January 1, 1922. After her conversion, Edith spent her days teaching, lecturing, writing and translating, and she soon became known as a celebrated philosopher and author, but her own great longing was for the solitude and contemplation of Carmel, in which she could offer herself to God for her people. She entered the Discalced Carmelite Nuns cloistered community at Cologne-Lindenthal on October 14, 1933. The following April, Edith received the Habit of Carmel and the religious name of Teresa Benedicta of the Cross and on Easter Sunday, April 21, 1935, she made her Profession of Vows. When the Jewish persecution increased in violence and fanaticism, Sister Teresa Benedicta soon realized the danger that her presence was to the Cologne Carmel, and she asked and received permission to transfer to a foreign monastery. On the night of December 31, 1938, she secretly crossed the border into Holland where she was warmly received in the Carmel of Echt. There she wrote her last work, The Science of the Cross. She died in the gas chambers at Auschwitz on August 9, 1942. She was canonized on October 11, 1998.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Finite and Eternal Being: An Attempt at an Ascent to the Meaning of Being; Volume 9 of The Collected Works Of Edith Stein; Volume 9 of The Collected Works of Edith Stein, Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, Discalced Carmelite; Volume 9 of The collected works of Edith Stein; Volume 9 of Works. English. 1986
• Author: Edith Stein
• Editors: Dr. L. Gelber, Romaeus Leuven,OCD
• Translated by: Kurt F. Reinhardt
• Publisher: ICS Publications, 2002
• ISBN: 0935216324, 9780935216325
• Length: 625 pages
• Subjects: Philosophy / Metaphysics