On the Ethical Philosophy of Edith Stein: Outlines of Morality

Although she never penned a text dedicated exclusively to ethics, Edith Stein’s work encompasses an implicit, but self-consciously developed, moral philosophy not yet sufficiently developed in the current English-language literature. However, comparison of Stein’s anthropological and metaphysical theories against the ethical philosophy of other early phenomenological thinkers, such as Max Scheler and Edmund Husserl, reveals lines of moral theory woven throughout her texts. In On the Ethical Philosophy of Edith Stein: Outlines of Morality, William E. Tullius endeavors to present a systematic account of Stein’s moral thought as it takes shape in conversation with neo-scholasticism and develops across her corpus in conversation with her philosophical anthropology, axiological theory, and metaphysics. The ethics which emerge from these sources is oriented around the moral project of the development of personality through the unfolding of one’s personal core and which entails a call to the development of an ethical community reflective of and oriented by its responsiveness to the highest values and to the communal destiny of all humanity in God. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Preface Abbreviations Introduction Part I: Philosophical and Theological Anthropology Across Stein’s Works Chapter 1: Ethics, Metaphysics, and Anthropology: Stein, Scheler, and the Problem of Kant Chapter 2: Philosophical Anthropology in the Phenomenological Works I: The Basic Structure of Human Nature in On the Problem of Empathy Chapter 3: Philosophical Anthropology in the Phenomenological Works II: Expanding the Structure in the Philosophy of Psychology and the Humanities and An Investigation Concerning the State Chapter 4: Philosophical and Theological Anthropology in Stein’s Later Philosophy Chapter 5: Final Philosophical Characterization of Steinian Personalism—Being-in-the-Metaxy: Stein’s Theory of Human Nature in Synthesis Part II: Phenomenological and Metaphysical Axiologies in Edith Stein Chapter 6: Formal and Material Axiology in the Phenomenological Tradition Chapter 7: Stein’s Phenomenological and Metaphysical Axiology Part III: Systematic Unfolding of a Steinian Ethical Theory Chapter 8: Stein on Human and Personal Moral Vocation Chapter 9: Phenomenological “Renewal” and Christian “Metanoia” Conclusion Bibliography Index About the Author