In the closing chapter, Francesco Valerio Tommasi elaborates upon the analogy between person and nature in Stein. As he emphasizes, Stein attributes to nature an objectively spiritual dimension, a hidden form of intentionality. As the author suggests, for Stein nature turns out to be a living sign of the spirit—thus, a sign expressing spiritual values, such as emotions. This perspective is present in both the lectures on The Constitution of the Human Person and Potency and Act: the phenomenological reflection on personhood is combined, Tommasi argues, with a Thomist view that brings Stein to conceiving the life of the entire cosmos as a spirit (or act) informing it and shaping it into a living sign of the creation.

The intentionality of matter: the personal character of nature in Edith Stein's "Potency and act" / Tommasi, FRANCESCO VALERIO. - (2024), pp. 224-239. - INVESTIGATING MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY. [10.1163/9789004693616_012].

The intentionality of matter: the personal character of nature in Edith Stein's "Potency and act"

Francesco Valerio Tommasi
2024

Abstract

In the closing chapter, Francesco Valerio Tommasi elaborates upon the analogy between person and nature in Stein. As he emphasizes, Stein attributes to nature an objectively spiritual dimension, a hidden form of intentionality. As the author suggests, for Stein nature turns out to be a living sign of the spirit—thus, a sign expressing spiritual values, such as emotions. This perspective is present in both the lectures on The Constitution of the Human Person and Potency and Act: the phenomenological reflection on personhood is combined, Tommasi argues, with a Thomist view that brings Stein to conceiving the life of the entire cosmos as a spirit (or act) informing it and shaping it into a living sign of the creation.
2024
Rethinking intentionality, person and the essence. Aquinas, Scotus, Stein
978-90-04-69345-6
Stein; phenomenology; metaphysics; spirit; nature; person; intentionality
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The intentionality of matter: the personal character of nature in Edith Stein's "Potency and act" / Tommasi, FRANCESCO VALERIO. - (2024), pp. 224-239. - INVESTIGATING MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY. [10.1163/9789004693616_012].
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