Radość filozofa. Edyty Stein drogi radości

• Authors: Ryszard KOZŁOWSKI, COr

Title variants

EN

The Joy of a Philosopher: Edith Stein’s Ways Towards Joy

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

In her philosophical and autobiographical writings, Edith Stein, philosopher and Carmelite nun, made many significant remarks concerning the phenomenon of joy and the experience of joy as such. Her pursuit for the source of joy comprised three stages: the period of her philosophical growth, the time of her focus on metaphysics, and the final period in which she was above all a mystic and in which she achieved a fulfillment of her quest. In each of these stages, however, the same joy was revealed to Edith Stein, albeit in different ways, its only source being the Incarnate Word of God. Thus she was able to clarify her vision of the essence of joy and to distinguish it from the lived experience of joy. To Edith Stein, genuine joy meant simultaneously eternal joy: it signified the joy that God himself grants to the human being. Edith Stein did experience the way of genuine joy. Although her life ended with a martyr’s death, it was joy that ultimately prevailed in it.   Translated by Dorota Chabrajska

Keywords

EN

Edith Stein, joy, experience, the relevant moment of joy, person, empathy

• Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
• Journal: Ethos. Kwartalnik Instytutu Jana Pawła II KUL
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 24
• Issue: 1 2(93 94)

Dates

published

2020-03-01

Contributors

author

Ryszard KOZŁOWSKI, COr