Contents

1 Introduction 1
References 4
2 A Historie and Critical Study of the "Scotist"
Sources Used by Edith Stein 5
2.1 The Possibility of a Scotist Philosophy in the Context
of Phenomenology 5
2.1.1 The Disciples of Edmund Husserl and the Recovery
of the "Writings" of Doctor Subtilis 6
2.1.2 The Approach to Scotist Concepts
in the Phenomenological Analyses of Edith Stein 7
2.2 Quaestiones disputatae de rerum principio: Historical
and Literary Issues 13
2.2.1 Philological Analysis of the Manuscripts 15
2.2.2 Authenticity and Dating of the Quaestiones disputatae
de rerum principio 21
2.3 Vitalis de Furno: Scriptor, Compilator,
Commentator, Auetor? 34
2.3.1 Biographical and Bibliographical Profile of the Author 35
2.3.2 Concluding Remarks on the Quaestiones disputatae
de rerum principio 37
References 37
3 The Question of the Principium Individuationis
in the Writings of Duns Scotus. Ordinatio/Lectura:
Quaestiones super Libros Metaphysicorum 43
3.1 The Principium Individuationis: A Medieval Controversy 43
3.1.1 The Factors That Contributed to the Systematic
Development of the Dispute 43

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3.1.2 Terminological Stratification in the Works

of Doctor Subtilis 46
3.1.3 Literary Genre of the Quaestiones 48
3.2 The "ultima realitas entisAchieving Ontological Perfection 48
3.2.1 The Need for Individuation of the Substantia Materialis 49
3.2.2 The "Intrinsic" and "Positive" Foundation
of the Principium Individuationis 53
3.2.3 Ontological Priority of the "esse essentiae"
Over the "esse existentiae" 56
3.2.4 The Inability of "Quantity" to Individúate
the Substantia Materialis 57
3.2.5 The Inability of "Matter" to Individúate
the Compound Substance 60
3.2.6 The "ultima realitas entis" and the "distinctio
formalis ex parte rei" 62
3.3 Difficulties Arising from the "Quaestiones super
Libros Metaphysicorum" (q. 13) 64
3.3.1 The "principium individuationis"'.
Terminological Diversification 65
3.3.2 The "continentia unitiva"'. A Combination
of the Common Nature and the "principium
individuationis" 68
3.3.3 Final Considerations 69
References 70
4 The Intangible Individuality of Human Beings.
The Originality of Edith Stein's Perspective 73
4.1 Edith Stein's Phenomenological Investigation
of Individual Being 74
4.1.1 Entropathetic Lived Experience: One's Own Selfness
in Reference to the Other's Alterity 74
4.1.2 Qualitative Individuality and the Opening
Up of "ultima solitudo" to Gemeinschaft 76
4.2 The "Responsibility" Arising from Spiritual Perception
by Feeling (das Fühlen)'. The Intangibility of the "Person" 84
4.2.1 Individuation as an Opportunity for Rethinking
the Anthropological Question 84
4.2.2 The Depth of the Fühlen 88
4.3 "Positive Quality of the Being" and "Empty Form" -
The Originality of a "Fühlen" 116
4.3.1 Preliminary Observations 116
4.3.2 The Solution Proposed by Stein Is Prefigured
in Duns Scotus 119
4.3.3 Open Questions 121
References 121
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5 Conclusión 125
References 130

Postface 133
Eidetic Thought and Medieval Paradigm 133
References 165
Bibliography 169
Codices 169
Works 169
Aristotle 169
Edmund Husserl 170
Eugen Fink 170
Hedwig Conrad-Martius 170
Martin Heidegger 171
John Duns Scotus 171
Edith Stein 171
Wilhelm Dilthey 173
Sources 173
Sources Used by Edith Stein 173
Repertories of Codices 173
Studies 174
Edith Stein 174
Martin Heidegger and the Tractatus de modis significandi
sive Grammatica speculativa by Thomas of Erfurt 175
Vitalis de Furno and the Quaestiones disputatae
de rerum principio 176
Duns Scotus and the Principium individuationis 178

Index 181