Doświadczenie wglądu. Ujawnienie się Ja a głębia poznania. Studium fenomenologiczne w ujęciu Edyty Stein
Phenomenon of empathic understanding as an experience of insight. Disclosure of the I and the depth of cognition

Summary/Abstract: How can we get to know the man in the personalistic attitude, all in the specifity of his personal being, who regardless of his age and weight of his own experience retains his own identity? By understanding states/mental experiences cognition is not only coperception but also dialogical attitude to another person with the presentation of the entity in source and not in source. Both components, experience as well as specifically conceived character properties, are essential in this process. The description of these experiences is being enriched with the spiritual sphere acts. Empathic understanding metod, through dialogic meetings with people, led Edith Stein to the Absolute Eternal Existence. Our existence, which is a mystery unexplainable from the scientific point of view, can only be profoundly experienced. The spirit of man is immersed in the body whose vital dimension is the “core of a person” – a place to live the highest values, thoughts of the heart – as being in the fullness of phenomenological personalism. Thanks to the gifts of intellect and freedom, the choice of the spirit of good takes us into the “Kingdom of Light” and “Kingdom of Grace”, where love liberates us from fear of possessing whoever and whatever as an object. The evidence of our personal activity is directed towards the fulfillment of self, towards the awareness of the goodness of an act which is the way of revealing to the world and prospects. The experience of contingency of existence leads us to Eternal Personal Existence, that is to God as an Eternal Source, Eternal Model. Representation of God as a unity of three Persons builds in us our unity of spiritual life in the form of acts of memory, intellect and will. Ontological realism and altruistically oriented philosophy of dialogue lead us to the invisible, real and eternal. They create the basis for building an indestructible “spiritual fortress”, whose top value is love. The light of faith and mystery takes on depth and mysticism of the constituent element of creating a full sense of cognition and life. This way the “Knowledge of the Cross” is being constituted, which is a “Royal Route” in achieving full humanity, understanding the meaning of love and life. The Cross becomes the philosophy of action, weapon against poverty and evil world, a sort of compensation for them and a sign of objection. Joining reason with faith becomes the Truth of Love, of God and Man. It becomes a foundation built of “living stones”, a symbol of relationships, communication and meetings with Another and with God as a profound truth of existence, with the Absolute. The way of natural and supernatural intellect leads to the truth, its understanding from the perspective of faith – that is love and wisdom. The theory of empathic understanding allows us to experience insight into cultural and religous traditions. The world, which we are cast in, fills us with a wise charity, although it is unaccessible to the end. That is this charity and love that motivate and constitute the phenomenological personality.

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