On the Ethical Philosophy of Edith Stein - Outlines of Morality

On the Ethical Philosophy of Edith Stein puts Stein's writing in conversation with the work of early phenomenological thinkers to reveal the moral theory woven throughout her corpus. This conversation reveals a vision of the moral project of developing both an individual personality and an ethical community in response to the highest values.

List of contents

Introduction: Edith Stein as Moral Philosopher?
Part I: Philosophical and Theological Anthropology Across Stein's Works
Chapter 1: Ethics, Metaphysics, and Anthropology: Stein, Scheler, and the Problem of Kant
Chapter 2: Philosophical Anthropology in the Phenomenological Works I: The Basic Structure of Human Nature in On the Problem of Empathy
Chapter 3: Philosophical Anthropology in the Phenomenological Works II: Expanding the Structure in Philosophy of Psychology and the Humanities and An Investigation Concerning the State
Chapter 4: Philosophical and Theological Anthropology in Stein's Later Philosophy
Chapter 5: Final Philosophical Characterization of Steinian Personalism-Being-in-the-Metaxy
Part II: Phenomenological and Metaphysical Axiologies in Edith Stein
Chapter 6: Formal and Material Axiology in the Phenomenological Tradition
Chapter 7: Stein's Phenomenological and Metaphysical Axiology
Part III: Systematic Unfolding of a Steinian Ethical Theory
Chapter 8: Stein on Human and Personal Moral Vocation
Chapter 9: Phenomenological "Renewal" and Christian "Metanoia"
Conclusion: A Steinian Contribution to Moral Debate

About the author

By William E. Tullius

Product details

• Authors: William E. Tullius
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.09.2024
• EAN: 9781666923667
• ISBN: 978-1-66692-366-7
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Edith Stein Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism