Edith Stein is widely known as a historical figure a victim of the Holocaust and a saint but
still unrecognised as a philosopher. It was philosophy however that constituted the core of
her life. Today her complete writings are available to scholars and therefore her thinking can
be properly investigated and evaluated. Who is a human person? And what is his or her dignity
according to Edith Stein? Those are the two leading questions investigated in this volume. The
answer is presented based on the complete writings of the 20th-c. phenomenologist and moreover
compared to the traditional Christian understanding of human dignity present in the writings of
the Church Fathers and the Doctors of the Church as well as Magisterial Documents of the
Catholic Church. In the final parts of the book the author shows how Stein's ideas are
relevant today in particular to the ongoing doctrinal and legal debates over the concept of
human dignity.
