On the Problem of Empathy : The Collected Works of Edith Stein Sister Teresa Bendicta of the Cross Discalced Carmelite Volume Three / by W.J. Stein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stein, Waltraut, translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Phenomenology.

Psychology.

Ethics.

Behavioral Sciences and Psychology.

Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics.

Local Subjects:

Phenomenology.

Behavioral Sciences and Psychology.

Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XXV, 137 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 1989.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1989.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

he radical viewpoint of phenomenology is presented by T 3 Edmund Husser! in his Ideas. This viewpoint seems quite simple at first, but becomes exceedingly complex and involves intricate distinctions when attempts are made to apply it to actual problems. Therefore, it may be well to attempt a short statement of this position in order to note the general problems with which it is dealing as well as the method of solution which it proposes. I shall emphasize the elements of phenomenology which seem most relevant to E. Stein's work. Husser! deals with two traditional philosophical questions, and in answering them, develops the method of phenomenological reduction which he maintains is the basis of all science. These questions are, "What is it that can be known without doubt?" and "How is this knowledge possible in the most general sense?" In the tradition of idealism he takes consciousness as the area to be investigated. He posits nothing about the natural world. He puts it in "brackets," as a portion of an algebraic formula is put in brackets, and makes no use of the material within these brackets. This does not mean that the "real" wor!d does not exist, he says emphatically; it only means that this existence is a presupposition must be suspended to achieve pure description.

Contents:

Foreword

II. The Essence of Acts of Empathy

1. The Method of the Investigation

2. Description of Empathy in Comparison with Other Acts

3. Discussion in Terms of Other Descriptions of Empathy—Especially That of Lipps—and Continuation of the Analysis

4. The Controversy Between the View of Idea and That of Actuality

5. Discussion in Terms of Genetic Theories of the Comprehension of Foreign Consciousness

6. Discussion in Terms of Scheler’s Theory of the Comprehension of Foreign Consciousness

7. Münsterberg’s Theory of the Experience of Foreign Consciousness

III. The Constitution of the Psycho-Physical Individual

1. The Pure “I”

2. The Stream of Consciousness

3. The Soul

4. “I” and Living Body

5. Transition to the Foreign Individual

IV. Empathy as the Understanding of Spiritual Persons

1. The Concept of the Spirit and of the Cultural Sciences [Geisteswissenschaften]

2. The Spiritual Subject

3. The Constitution of the Person in Emotional Experiences

4. The Givenness of the Foreign Person

5. Soul and Person

6. The Existence of the Spirit

7. Discussion in Terms of Dilthey

8. The Significance of Empathy for the Constitution of Our Own Person

9. The Question of the Spirit Being Based on the Physical Body

Personal Biography

Notes.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

94-009-1051-7

OCLC:

1255239156