The ontological question in Edith Stein: From Being that ‘presents itself’ in the world to Being that ‘presents itself’ in the spirit

Theaim of this work is to outline the degrees of the constitution of being by following the various moments of Edith Stein’s philosophical journey. Starting from the differentiation between the presentation of a worldly being, which reveals itself concretely in the world in different forms (otherness, motivation and community) and that of a more properly spiritual Being, which reveals itself subjectively the soul and objectively in material reality, the intention is to phenomenologically describe an unambiguous meaning created being that encompasses all the different degrees and modes in which it enters into human history. Human individuals can come to intuit this being within themselves if they learn to glimpse the foundation of their finite being in the light of the eternal Being that is their absolute presupposition.