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Knowledge and Faith (Collected Works of Edith Stein, Sister Teresa Benedicta) Paperback – January 1, 2000

by Walter Redmond (Translator)
4.8 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
Five contributions on the title themes, including two of Stein's most famous essays: a comparison of Husserl and Aquinas, and an examination of the "Ways to Know God" according to Pseudo-Dionysius.
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  1. Part of series
    The Collected Works of Edith Stein
  2. Print length
    8 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    ICS Publications
  5. Publication date
    January 1, 2000
  6. Dimensions
    1.3 x 0.4 x 8.4 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    0935216715
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0935216714
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ ICS Publications (January 1, 2000)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 8 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0935216715
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0935216714
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 1.3 x 0.4 x 8.4 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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  • Aran Joseph Canes
    5.0 out of 5 stars What is Philosophy?
    Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2022
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    “What is Philosophy? A Comparison Between Edmund Husserl and Thomas Aquinas” may be Edith Stein’s most read text and for good reason. Difficult concepts such as the starting points of each philosophy are explained in such terse yet expressive prose that only someone who had mastered both of these philosophers could write.

    According to Stein’s interpretation, the beginning of Husserl’s philosophy is the awareness of ideas about the world that are the same across all humanity. In short, what are the conditions that allow for this transcendence? Reading comparatively little of other philosophers, Husserl devoted volume after volume to drawing out in every discipline what the intellect must be like for the human world of shared lived experience to be possible.

    Though modern in the sense that he began with the Cartesian doubt, he was called dogmatic because he thought his
    method could reach the universal principles of human reason; or even the basic principles of any reasoning being. Like many others of his time, he wanted his thought to reground all of Western civilization.

    While never abandoning Husserl’s path, Stein’s pursuit of reason, both internal and at the root of all things, led her to the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas. She seemed to think that Husserl could never successfully overcome idealism, or the sense that the noumena is essentially other than the phenomena. Aquinas offered a universe in which the isomorphism between reason in human beings, the world and the world beyond could all be reconciled.

    Stein, as one of those rare thinkers who gave up her life for where her thought led, bears a listening to, even in a world that is learning to embrace computers passing the Turing Test and a material understanding of human reasoning. Just before the digital revolution, she explored to great depth the immaterial theory of reason. It seems like a propitious time to give her philosophy a deeper look.
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  • Adam
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
    Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2018
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    Here we have yet another excellent work by the brilliant saint, Edith Stein (Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross).
    This book contains two main works, and then a few drafts/fragments of works that all in some way address or come to terms with how "knowledge and faith" relate to each other (another reviewer said that this could more accurately/specifically be said to be how "science and faith" are related, but that is definitely misleading if by "science" that reviewer meant merely the empirical sciences such as physics, chemistry, biology, etc. instead of "science" in its fullest science which would also include philosophy, the other humanities, the social sciences, mathematics, and really any field of study).

    The first work included (entitled here "Husserl and Aquinas: A Comparison"; originally "Husserls Phaenomenologie und die Philosophie des hl. Thomas von Aquino: Versuch einer Gegenueberstellung" - "Husserl's Phenomenology and the Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas: An Attempt at a Comparison") is Stein's contribution to the Husserl Festschrift of 1929 ("Festschrift" is a German term that refers to a volume of an academic journal that is dedicated to some person - normally a teacher/professor/etc. - which contains a number of essays normally written by his students; these essays tend to address topics that are in a similar field as that professor's academic focus, or topics related to how that particular student and that professor see each other's work). Stein's contribution was an essay comparing/contrasting the philosophy of Edmund Husserl and that of St. Thomas Aquinas. Her essay tackles this comparison in several ways including a discussion on the theocentrism of Aquinas' system and the egocentrism of Husserl's phenomenology, and the limits inherent in a philosophy that does not permit supernatural principles of knowledge. Those of a Thomistic background should read this work as it clarifies several misunderstandings Thomists tend to have about phenomenology.

    The other main work ("Ways to Know God")was intended to be a contribution to the American journal "Philosophy and Phenomenological Research" but the editor (Marvin Farber) found it to be too theological for inclusion. It finally was published in "The Thomist" some years later. Farber's criticism was largely justified. While Stein does certainly employ philosophical reasoning and the phenomenological method throughout, the essay is an exposition of Pseudo-Dionysius' theological work and therefore operates almost entirely within a particular dogmatic frame (this is not a criticism: I have the honor of living within the same dogmatic frame as the saint).

    As for the other works, they really are meant for the more scholarly who, if he needs to read them, will probably do so in the original German, or otherwise at least not be content with the simple summary I could provide here, but instead will thoroughly study the fragments themselves. For those reasons, I'll pass over them in this review.
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  • OrganicSmarts
    5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant dialogue between Thomas Aquinas and Husserl
    Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2008
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    Knowledge and Faith contains both the Catholic and secular (edited for publication) versions of Stein's comparison and combination of philosophers Edmund Husserl and Thomas Aquinas. While these two are quite different on the surface (as the progenitors of phenomenology and Thomism, respectively), Stein manages to place them in immediate confrontation and display an amazingly keen understanding of both. This is, in some ways, not surprising since she was both a student of Husserl (who deserves the credit for actually saving much of his work) and a follower of the Catholic Church of which Thomas Aquinas is a "doctor".

    There is also an essay on Pseudo-Dionysius included, but I recommend this book primarily as a must-read for those who wish to understand the intersection of Thomism and phenomenology).
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  • Jim
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2015
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    Excellent translation. Good starting point for the study of Stein
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