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Thine own self : individuality in Edith Stein's later writings / Sarah Borden Sharkey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sharkey, Sarah Borden.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stein, Edith, Saint, 1891-1942.
- Stein, Edith.
- Individuality.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (290 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Thine Own Self investigates Stein's account of human individuality and her mature philosophical positions on being and essence.Sarah Borden Sharkey shows how Stein's account of individual form adapts and updates the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition in order to account for evolution and more contemporary insights in personality and individual.
- Contents:
- Individual form and relevant distinctions
- Reasons for affirming individual forms
- Types of essential structures
- Types of being
- Principles of individuality
- Individual form and mereology
- Challenges for individual forms
- Alternative accounts of individual form
- An alternative account revisited.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-252) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8132-1755-5
- OCLC:
- 820732417
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