The Collected Works of EDITH STEIN ON THE PROBLEM OF EMPATHY

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(p) Edith Stein The Signifcance of the Foreign Indiuidual's Constitution.for the Constitution of Our Own Psychic Indiaidual Now, as r{'e suw on a lower level in crlnsidering the living body as the center o1-orientatibject o{'our attenti()n or even our observatiorr. Furthermore, we do not evaluate it nor look at it in such a wav that we can discover n'hat kind of a "character" it manif'ests. On the contrary, u'e do all this in regard to fbreign psychic lif-e. Because this life is bound to the perceived physical body, it stands before Lrs as an object fr

Chapter IV Empathy as the Understanding of S Piritual Persons 1. The Concept of the Spirit and of the Cultural Sciences IGeisteswissenschaften] * Q,o f,,, *'e ha'e considered the individual "1" as a part of \) t,ur.tr., the living body as a physical body among others, the soul as founded on it, effects suffered and done and aligned in the causal tlrder. all that is psychic as natural occurrence. consciousness as reality. Alone, this interpretation cannot be fbllorved through consistently. ln the constitution of the psycho-physical indiviiual something already gleamed through in a number of places that goes beiond these frames. Consciousness appeared not only as i causally conditioned occurrence, but also as objectconstituting at the same time. Thus it stepped out of the order of' < I 02 > nature and faced it. consciousness as a correlate of' the object world is not nature, but sPirit. We do not want to venture into the new problem arising here in its entirety, not to mention solving it. But neither can n'e avoid it tf we \{ant to take a position on questions confronting us in the history of the literature on empathy, questions concerning the ur.rderstanding of foreign personalities. \,ve shall see later how this is related. *Pleasc'refer to the Note.r on the Ttantlation.ll. xs ab

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Edith Stein<br />

<strong>The</strong> Signifcance <strong>of</strong> the Foreign Indiuidual's Constitution.for the<br />

Constitution <strong>of</strong> Our Own Psychic Indiaidual<br />

Now, as r{'e suw on a lower level in crlnsidering the living body<br />

as the center o1-orientatibject o{'our attenti()n or even our observatiorr.<br />

Furthermore, we do not evaluate it nor look at it in such a wav<br />

that we can discover n'hat kind <strong>of</strong> a "character" it manif'ests. On<br />

the contrary, u'e do all this in regard to fbreign psychic lif-e.<br />

Because this life is bound to the perceived physical body, it stands<br />

before Lrs as an object fr

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