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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

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