The Presence of Duns Scotus in the Thought of Edith Stein: by Francesco Alfieri

By Francesco Alfieri

This ebook examines the phenomenological anthropology of Edith Stein. It particularly makes a speciality of the query which Stein addressed in her paintings Finite and everlasting Being: what's the foundational precept that makes the person precise and unrepeatable in the human species? conventional analyses of Edith Stein’s writings have tended to border her perspectives in this factor as being motivated through Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, whereas neglecting her curiosity within the lesser-known determine of Duns Scotus. but, as this publication exhibits, in regards to the query of individuality, Stein used to be serious of Aquinas’ technique, discovering that of Duns Scotus to be extra convincing. to be able to get to the guts of Stein’s readings of Duns Scotus, this ebook seems at her released writings and her own correspondence, as well as undertaking a meticulous research of the unique codexes on which her assets have been dependent. Written with diligence and aptitude, the publication severely evaluates the authenticity of Stein’s assets and indicates how the placement of Scotus himself advanced. It highlights the originality of Stein’s contribution, which was once to rediscover the relevance of Mediaeval scholastic concept and reinterpret it within the language of the Phenomenological institution based by way of Edmund Husserl.

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Questio nostra fuit utrum sensitiua hominis sit in qualibet parte corporis. Respondeo: tria sunt hic uidenda circa aspectum quem habet anima…| teneatis quod vultis; primus modus uide-retur michi ad presens esse pro-babilior (fols. 49vb-51rb) De rerum principio (Garcìa edition) – Codex Is VII. Utrum substantia spiritualis per se subsistens vel apta nata subsistere, innatur fundamento materiae. Ad evidentiam huius quaestionis…| sic nec sua compositio est terminata. Ad alia patet solutio ex dictis (fols.

Codex T conserves the quaestiones disputatae and Quodlibet by Vitalis de Furno in their chronological order. 22 2 A Historic and Critical Study of the “Scotist” Sources Used by Edith Stein the first time by Wadding in 1639 under the name of Duns Scotus. After him, other editors, such as Vivès and Fernandez Garcìa,50 republished this work with the title of De rerum principio and held that its literary paternity should be attributed to Doctor Subtilis on the basis of codex Is, the only source that was available to Wadding.

1922). Towards the end of 1922, the author concluded that the work in question was not authentic; see Longpré E. (1924). For more information about the author, the reader is referred to Parent E. (1966). 53 See Carreras y Artau J. (1923). The author’s analysis of the doctrines focuses on a few key points, such as the distinction between essence and existence and the principle of individuation. At the end of the work, in a long appendix, Sobre la autenticidad del tratado De rerum principio (pp.

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