Alta estima del hombre. La antropología de Edith Stein

Abstract

During her early working years with E. Husserl, Edith Stein began a study which she would never abandon, the question of man. While man was the object of her systematic reflection, he was no less the subject of her great personal esteem, as one can gather from the reading of the three parts of this article. The first part lets us see that already in her years of university study man was at the centre of her concerns. The passage of time did nothing to assuage this concern, given that years later -and under very adverse circumstances- she returned to her treatment of man: firstly from a philosophical perspective and then from a theological perspective. The result was her philosophical and theological anthropology which we learn about in the second and third part of the article.