Edith Stein Quotes


A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.


Citations

Stein, Edith. Philosophy of Psychology and the Humanities. Translated by Mary Catharine Baseheart and Marianne Sawicki, ICS Publications, 2000, p. 278.

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This parochial and sectional point of view was held much more strongly by the South and to a great extent, still is. We are all conflicted by wanting and American culture (that can be adopted by the world in globalization) and also wanting local customs, cultures, norms, policies and thought patterns to exist. However, there is inevitable conflict between the two, so it is a constant American source of debate, ebb and flow.


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  • Profession: Philosopher, Saint

Edith Stein, OCD (religious name: Teresa Benedicta of the Cross; 12 October 1891 – 9 August 1942) was a German Jewish philosopher who converted to Catholicism and became a Discalced Carmelite nun. She is canonized as a martyr and saint of the Catholic Church; she is also one of six patron saints of Europe.

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