Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences 12 Michael F. Andrews Antonio Calcagno   Editors Ethics and Metaphysics in the Philosophy of Edith Stein Applications and Implications Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences Volume 12 SeriesEditors RuthEdithHagengruber,DepartmentofHumanities,CenterfortheHistory ofWomenPhilosophers,PaderbornUniversity,Paderborn,Germany MaryEllenWaithe,ProfessorEmerita,DepartmentofPhilosophyandComparative Religion,ClevelandStateUniversity,Cleveland,OH,USA GianniPaganini,DepartmentofHumanities,UniversityofPiedmont,Vercelli,Italy As the historical records prove, women have long been creating original contributions to philosophy. We have valuable writings from female philosophers from Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and a continuous tradition from the Renaissancetotoday.Thehistoryofwomenphilosophersthusstretchesbackasfar as the history of philosophy itself. The presence as well as the absence of women philosophersthroughoutthecourseofhistoryparallelsthehistoryofphilosophyas awhole. Edith Stein, Hannah Arendt and Simone de Beauvoir, the most famous representatives of this tradition in the twentieth century, did not appear form nowhere. They stand,sotospeak,ontheshoulders ofthefemaletitanswhocame beforethem. The series Women Philosophers and Scientists published by Springer is of interestnotonlytotheinternationalphilosophycommunity,butalsoforscholarsin historyofscienceandmathematics,thehistoryofideas,andinwomen’sstudies. Moreinformationaboutthisseriesathttps://link.springer.com/bookseries/15896 · Michael F. Andrews Antonio Calcagno Editors Ethics and Metaphysics in the Philosophy of Edith Stein Applications and Implications Editors MichaelF.Andrews AntonioCalcagno DepartmentofPhilosophy DepartmentofPhilosophy LoyolaUniversityChicago King’sUniversityCollegeatWestern Chicago,USA University London,ON,Canada ISSN2523-8760 ISSN2523-8779 (electronic) WomenintheHistoryofPhilosophyandSciences ISBN978-3-030-91197-3 ISBN978-3-030-91198-0 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91198-0 ©TheEditor(s)(ifapplicable)andTheAuthor(s),underexclusivelicensetoSpringerNature SwitzerlandAG2022 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsaresolelyandexclusivelylicensedbythePublisher,whether thewholeorpartofthematerialisconcerned,specificallytherightsoftranslation,reprinting,reuse ofillustrations,recitation,broadcasting,reproductiononmicrofilmsorinanyotherphysicalway,and transmissionorinformationstorageandretrieval,electronicadaptation,computersoftware,orbysimilar ordissimilarmethodologynowknownorhereafterdeveloped. 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ThisSpringerimprintispublishedbytheregisteredcompanySpringerNatureSwitzerlandAG Theregisteredcompanyaddressis:Gewerbestrasse11,6330Cham,Switzerland Therearetwoscholars—dearfriendsand inspiringmentors,really—withoutwhomthis work,andtheentirecorpusofStein scholarship,wouldbetremendously diminished,ifevenpossibleatall.Itiswith thedeepestgratitude andimmensejoyfor theircollegialspirit,sharingofresources, professionalsupport,andespeciallytheir friendshipthatthisbookisdedicatedin memoriam: Sr.JosephineKoeppel,OCD and Rev.MichaelLinssen,OCD Acknowledgements This book would not have been possible without the encouragement of Dr. Ruth Hagengruber and Dr. Mary Ellen Waithe. Their work on the history of women philosophers and scientists has created a shift in consciousness, bringing to light theworkofimportantwomenphilosopherslikeEdithStein.Wearealsogratefulfor theeditorialworkofKarenEnns,whoreadandeditedanumberofessayscontained inthisvolume.Heracuity,care,andgracewithlanguagehavehelpedtransmitthe ideasandthoughtsofEdithStein. vii Contents 1 Introduction .................................................. 1 MichaelF.Andrews PartI Ethics 2 EdithSteinandCatholicSocialTeaching ........................ 15 MarianMaskulak 3 Putting the Emotion Back into Empathy: Edith Stein’s UnderstandingofEmpathyAppliedtoContemporaryIssues ...... 29 MelindaJolly 4 MysticalGod-ForsakennessandtheEthicsofSolidarity .......... 43 JacobW.Torbeck 5 Love Divined: Discerning a Contemplative Ethic inthePhilosophyofEdithStein ................................ 55 MicheleKueterPetersen 6 PersoninCommunity,Repentance,andHistoricalMeaning: From an Individual to a Social Ethics in Stein’s Early PhenomenologicalTreatises .................................... 73 WilliamE.Tullius PartII Metaphysics 7 TheEmpatheticGaze:ASteinianApproachtotheStudy ofReligion .................................................... 91 L.R.Lovestone 8 EdithStein’sConceptofSoulRevisited .......................... 105 SarahBordenSharkey ix x Contents 9 TheRelationshipBetweenGoodandBeinginEdithStein’s Metaphysics .................................................. 121 MartinaGalvani 10 “Is”and“Ought”Reconciled ................................... 133 MariéleWulf 11 The Problem of Evil in the Political Philosophy, Ethics, andMetaphysicsofEdithStein ................................. 151 AngelaAlesBello 12 PersonalIdentity:TheFormationofPersoninEdithStein’s Thought ...................................................... 159 AnnaMariaPezzella PartIII ApplicationsandImplications 13 PeopleandtheStateCommunity:TwoConflictingForms ofSocialityinEdithStein’sConceptionofAPrioriLaw .......... 173 AntonioCalcagno 14 BeyondEthics:EdithSteinonSuffering,Sacrifice,andDeath ..... 187 MaryJ.Gennuso 15 OntologyandRelationalEthicsinEdithStein’sThought .......... 201 PaulinaMonjarazFuentes 16 CrucibleofEmpathy:NursingServiceinWorldWarI ............ 211 JohnSullivan 17 Edith Stein’s Understanding of the Personal Attitude: ApplicationsandImplicationsforaNewEthics .................. 225 MichaelF.Andrews Index ............................................................. 241 Chapter 1 Introduction MichaelF.Andrews EdithStein’scontributionstoethicsandmetaphysicspresupposeacoherentphilo- sophical framework by which human experience can be explored and thematized. According to a rich and apperceptive methodology rooted in phenomenological descriptionsofsocialreality,EdithSteinproposesexcitingandinnovateapproaches to contemporary ethics of value, care, and reciprocity, at once both dialogical in a Husserlian sense while remaining metaphysically congruent with the perennial philosophyofSt.ThomasAquinas.Thissynthesisisnotaccidental;itreflectsthetwo greatcodicesthatmarkEdithStein’sformativetrainingintermsofphenomenology andscholasticism,philosophyandtheology,ethicsandmetaphysics.Inthiscollec- tion of essays, some of the most respected international scholars on Edith Stein explore various ethical and metaphysical influences at play in the development of herthought.Thegoaloftheseessaysisneithertopresentacomprehensivesystemof ethicsandmetaphysicsdrawnfromEdithStein’svariousphilosophicalandtheolog- ical treatises, nor to propose a particular systematic approach towards interpreting Edith Stein. On the contrary, this book serves as a lacuna to open-up new levels ofdiscourseandmeaningsteepedwithinStein’sscholarlywritings.Theessaysare writtenwithboththescholarandthecasualreaderinmind.Theyservetointroduce Stein’stheoryofsocialconstitutiontoageneralaudienceaswellasexplorecreative newinitiativesforfurtherprofessionalresearch. Investigatingethicalandmetaphysicalthemespreviouslyunaddressedincontem- porary Stein scholarship offers a significant contribution towards understanding the complex development of Edith Stein’s creative thoughts and impulses. At the sametime,exploringethicalandmetaphysicalimplicationsinStein’sliterarycorpus willhelpscholarsevaluatehercontributionstowardsapplyingthemesandtopicsin connectionwiththosedevelopedbyseveralofhercontemporaries,includingEdmund B M.F.Andrews( ) DepartmentofPhilosophy,LoyolaUniversityChicago,Chicago,USA e-mail:[email protected] ©TheAuthor(s),underexclusivelicensetoSpringerNatureSwitzerlandAG2022 1 M.F.AndrewsandA.Calcagno(eds.),EthicsandMetaphysicsinthePhilosophy ofEdithStein,WomenintheHistoryofPhilosophyandSciences12, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91198-0_1