The Collected Works of EDITH STEIN ON THE PROBLEM OF EMPATHY

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104 Edith Stein this means. We can say that every feeling has a certain mood component that causes the feeling to be spread throughout the "I" from the feeling's place of origin and fill it up. Starting from a peripheral level, a slight resentment can fill me "entirely," but it can also happen upon a deep joy that prevents it fiom pushing further forward to the center. Nolv, in turn, this joy progresses victoriously from the center to the periphery and lills out all the layers above it. In terms of our previous metaphor, feelings are like different sources of light on whose position and luminosity the resulting illumination depends. The metaphor of light and color can illustrate the relationship between feelings and moods for us in still another respect. Emotions can have mood components essentially and occasionally just as colors have a specific brightness over and above their higher or lower degrees of brightness. So there is a serious and a cheerful .joy. Apart from this, however, joy has specifically a "luminous" character. On the other hand, we can still further elucidate the nature of moods from these relationships between moods and feelings. I can not only experience a mood and myself in it, but also its penetration into me. For example, I can experience it as resulting frn rational lan's, lrou' alreacl\' r'ariouslv clemonstrated, is clearlv dist i nguished from the soul's subordinati
106 Edith Stein center or the "1" kernel is surrounded by the "I" body. Nor.r', strivings can indeed exist in the "I" but outside of the "I" center in the "l" body. Thus in this sense they can be experienced as eccentric strivings.rl' 'Ihe distinctior.r between "I" kernel and "I" body seems to be in accordance with our distinction between central and peripheral personal levels. Therefore, central and eccentric strivings would burst forth from different levels, have different "I" depths. However, this description does not seem to me correct. The really justified distinction benveen central and eccentric strivirrgs seems to be entirely different. As far as I can see, we are talking about different modalities of accomplishing the act of striving. Central striving is a striving in the form of the cogito: eccenrric strivings are the corresponding "background experiences." But this does not mean that striving has no "I" depth at all. If a noise arouses in me the striving to turn myself toward it, unless I reflect I do not actually find that I experience something here other than the pure "I" on rvhich the "pull" is exercised. Nor do I expcrience it as arising out o1'some depth or other. On the contrarv. sometimes I experience "sources" from which the striving proceeds,r3('such as a discomfort, a restlessness, or something similar. Because they originate in this source, strivings have a secondary depth and constitutive sigtrificance for personality, namely, if personality's source first becomes visible in striving. Furthermore, the stubbornness and the intensity of a striving rhen turns out ro be dependent on the "I" depth of its surce and thus accessible to a rational lawfuh'ress. Meanwhile, the pure striving that does not arise experientially out of a feeling is neither rational nt>r irrational. According to Pfdnder, willing is ahvays "I" centered in contrast u'ith striving.r3r \4/e agree with him rr'hen we translate this into our interpretation. 'f he volitional decision is always carried out in the form of the "cogito." As rve already kr-rou', this savs lrothing about the u'ill as "self'experiencinp;." According to Pfiinder: If it is to be a genuine volitiolt, then our orvn "I" must n()t rtnly be thought but be immediately c
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