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Anna Maria Pezzella
A passion for the person led E. Stein to investigate empathy and the human person. Empathy is an act that allows recognition of the other, but not inner participation in his or her experience, which is proper to sympathy. The value of empathy lies in being not only a way of access to the estranged subject but also a way of understanding oneself, because only through relationship with others is self-knowledge possible. After such an examination, the human person is described, which, formed by the unity of body soul and spirit, escapes from any mechanistic analysis because its ultimate essence is the freedom before which God Himself stops. Such an investigation is accomplished with the Husserlian lesson in mind, on which Stein has been nourished, and with some aspects of the philosophy of M. Scheler who has been a stimulating ground of comparison for her.
