Abstract

PALHARES, Virginia Lima. The symbolic in Edith Stein: an approximation to geographicity. Rev. abordagem gestalt. [online]. 2016, vol.22, n.2, pp.127-133. ISSN 1809-6867.

Edit Stein's anthropologic thinking is based on Husserl's phenomenology. Its purpose is basically to know in depth and explain the human individual. According to philosophy, interiority and spirituality explain the human individual. She will approach the concepts of community and empathy to understand the individual. On its religious phase, Stein gets inspiration from Teresa D'Ávila and São João Batista da Cruz to clarify the mystic experience and its symbols. The objective of this text is to understand how Edith Stein sees the human individual and how she discusses the symbolic in its spiritual writing. Finally, this text seeks to how the symbolic aspects shown discussed by Edith Stein that can be related to geographicity, word created by Eric Dardel to explain the profound existing relation between man and the Earth.

Keywords : Geographicity; Symbolic; Experience; Mystic.

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