Category: Stein, Edith
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Edith Stein: Faith, Reason, and Method
August 9th is the feast day of St. Theresa Benedicta of the Cross in the Catholic liturgy. She is better known to philosophers as Edith Stein (1891-1942), brilliant Jewish student of and assistant to Edmund Husserl, philosopher in her own right, Roman Catholic convert, Carmelite nun, victim of the Holocaust at Auschwitz, and saint of…
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How Reasonable is it to Rely on Reason Alone?
A Substack meditation on the occasion of Edith Stein's feast day. August 9th is the feast day of St. Theresa Benedicta of the Cross in the Catholic liturgy. She is better known to philosophers as Edith Stein (1891-1942), brilliant Jewish student of and assistant to Edmund Husserl, philosopher in her own right, Roman Catholic convert,…
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Edith Stein: Faith, Reason, and Method
Top o' the Stack. August 9th is the feast day of St. Theresa Benedicta of the Cross in the Catholic liturgy. She is better known to philosophers as Edith Stein (1891-1942), brilliant Jewish student of and assistant to Edmund Husserl, philosopher in her own right, Roman Catholic convert, Carmelite nun, victim of the Holocaust at…
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Secretum Meum Mihi
On the topic of Latin mottoes, Edith Stein's is from Isaiah 24, 16: From the ends of the earth we have heard praises, the glory of the just one. And I said: My secret to myself, my secret to myself, woe is me: the prevaricators have prevaricated, and with the prevarication of transgressors they have…
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Edith Stein on Sister Clara and Edmund Husserl
A search on 'Sister Adelgundis' turned up the following which I reproduce from this interesting weblog. Pax Christi! Dear Sister Adelgundis, Our greetings go from one death-bed to the other. Our Sister Clara departed today for eternity, very gently, after a year of suffering. I commended our dear Master [Husserl] to her often, and will…
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Edith Stein on Cognitio Fidei: Is Faith a Kind of Knowledge?
One finds the phrase cognitio fidei in Thomas Aquinas and in such Thomist writers as Josef Pieper. It translates as 'knowledge of faith.' The genitive is to be interpreted subjectively, not objectively: faith is not the object of knowledge; faith is a form or type of knowledge. But how can faith be a type of knowledge? One…
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How Reasonable is it to Rely on Reason Alone?
Edith Stein, Finite and Eternal Being, tr. Reinhardt, ICS Publications, 2002, p. 22: Reason would turn into unreason if it would stubbornly content itself with what it is able to discover with its own light, barring out everything which is made visible to it by a brighter and more sublime light. Is it unreasonable to…