The Collected Works of EDITH STEIN ON THE PROBLEM OF EMPATHY
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62 Edith Stein<br />
as a physical bocly at the same time and because it is given primordially<br />
to the other "I," even though non-primordially to rns.<br />
J'his orientatir>n takes us a long way in constituting the foreign<br />
individual, for by means <strong>of</strong> it the "l" <strong>of</strong> the sensing, living boly<br />
empathizes the whole fullness <strong>of</strong> ourer perception in which the<br />
spatial world is essenrially constituted. A sensing subject has be_<br />
come one which carries out acts. And so all designations resulting<br />
from the immanent essential examination <strong>of</strong> perceptual con--<br />
sciusness apply to it.83 This also makes statements about the<br />
essentially possible various modalities <strong>of</strong> the accomplishment <strong>of</strong><br />
acts and about the actuality and non-actuality <strong>of</strong> perceptual acts<br />
70> and