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Finite and Eternal Being

Author : Edith. Stein
Publisher : ICS Publications Institute of Carmelite Studies
ISBN 13 : 9781939272911
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book Finite and Eternal Being written by Edith. Stein and published by ICS Publications Institute of Carmelite Studies. This book was released on 2023-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finite and Eternal Being bears the imprint of the extraordinary intellectual and spiritual journey of its author. Throughout her precocious youth, her conversion to Catholicism, her life as a Discalced Carmelite nun, and all the way to her martyrdom at the hands of National Socialism, Edith Stein's entire life was a consistent seeking after the truth. After her conversion in 1921, Stein sought to reconcile the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl, her previous intellectual master, with the thought of the new intellectual and spiritual masters she found in the Thomistic and Carmelite traditions. Stein produced this volume in the mid-1930s as a complete reworking of her earlier study of being, Potency and Act, and as her final synthesis of phenomenology with Thomistic metaphysics, Carmelite spirituality, modern scientific discoveries, spiritual and psychological debates about the soul, and Trinitarian theology. Starting from the most fundamental principles, the author takes us on a journey through a wide range of classic philosophical themes, such as potency and act, substance and accidents, matter and form, and time and eternity. Stein engages with the great thinkers of the past (e.g., Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius, Aquinas, Scotus) and of modern times (e.g., Kant, Husserl, Heidegger, Przywara, Conrad-Martius). Ascending to the meaning of being, she demonstrates how all finite being finds its ultimate ground in the eternal Divine Being, the Creator, whose Trinitarian nature is reflected throughout creation. Stein concludes with two appendices?appearing here for the first time in English?"Martin Heidegger's Philosophy of Existence" and "The Interior Castle," a study of St. Teresa of Ávila's mystical treatise. This new translation of Finite and Eternal Being inaugurates a new series, Edith Stein: The Complete Works: Critical English Edition, which replaces the existing series of Stein's writings, also published by ICS Publications. This volume, the twelfth in the new series, brings the recently completed German critical editions (Edith Stein Gesamtausgabe) to the English-speaking world.

Edith Stein's Finite and Eternal Being

Author : Sarah Borden Sharkey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666909688
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Edith Stein's Finite and Eternal Being written by Sarah Borden Sharkey and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-02-13 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are few topics more central to philosophical discussions than the meaning of being, and few thinkers offer a more compelling and original vision of that meaning than Edith Stein (1891–1942). Stein’s magnum opus, drawing from her decades working with the early phenomenologists and intense years as a student and translator of medieval texts, lays out a grand vision, bringing together phenomenological and scholastic insights into an integrated whole. The sheer scope of Stein’s project in Finite and Eternal Being is daunting, and the text can be challenging to navigate. In this book, Sarah Borden Sharkey provides a guide to Stein’s great final philosophical work and intellectual vision. The opening essays give an overview of Stein’s method and argument, and they place Finite and Eternal Being both within its historical context and in relation to contemporary discussions. The author also provides clear, detailed summaries of each section of Stein’s opus, drawing from the latest scholarship on Stein’s manuscript. Edith Stein’s Finite and Eternal Being: A Companion offers a unique guide, opening up Stein’s grand cathedral-like vision of the meaning of being as the unfolding of meaning.

Finite and Eternal Being

Author : Edith Stein
Publisher : ICS Publications
ISBN 13 : 0935216324
Total Pages : 659 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Finite and Eternal Being written by Edith Stein and published by ICS Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "this volume, "written by a beginner for beginners" bears the imprint of the extraordinary intellectual and spiritual journey of its author, one of the most remarkable women of the twentieth century. born in Breslau into a practicing Jewish family in 1891, Edith Stein abandoned her faith as a teenager and later became a key figure among the early disciples of Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenology. ........." [from back cover]

A philosophical search into the understanding of being in Edith Stein's finite and eternal being

Author : Oswald Castra
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (955 download)

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Download or read book A philosophical search into the understanding of being in Edith Stein's finite and eternal being written by Oswald Castra and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Being Unfolded

Author : Thomas Gricoski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0813232589
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Being Unfolded written by Thomas Gricoski and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From Edith Stein's comment that "being is the unfolding of meaning," the author contends that her understanding of the term is relational and thus resistant to both existentialism and essentialism. He tests his hypothesis against Stein's three modes of being (actual, essential, and mental) from both phenomenological and scholastic perspectives"--

Potency and Act: Studies Toward a Philosophy of Being

Author : Edith Stein
Publisher : ICS Publications
ISBN 13 : 0935216480
Total Pages : 579 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (352 download)

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Book Synopsis Potency and Act: Studies Toward a Philosophy of Being by : Edith Stein

Download or read book Potency and Act: Studies Toward a Philosophy of Being written by Edith Stein and published by ICS Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Potency and Act is the second of three works in which Edith Stein said she endeavored to fulfill her “proper mission’ in philosophy, her “life’s task”: relating the phenomenology of her teacher Edmund Husserl and the scholasticism of St. Thomas Aquinas. But more than “critically comparing” the two ways of thinking, she wished to “fuse” them into her own “philosophical system,” searching for that perennial philosophy lying “beyond ages and peoples, common to all who honestly seek truth.” More Information Edith Stein was a Jewish phenomenologist who became a Catholic after reading the autobiography of St. Teresa of Jesus and entered the order of Discalced Carmelites founded by the saint. Stein died in Auschwitz in 1942 and was herself canonized in 1998 as St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. Her philosophical thinking had been formed by Husserl, but she came to “find a home in Aquinas’s thought world.” In Potency and Act she “aimed to get from scholasticism to phenomenology and vice versa” and “allow the two ways of doing philosophy to come to resolution within herself.” The first of the three works in which she carried out her mission was a play where Husserl and Aquinas appear on stage to discuss their agreements and differences (in Knowledge and Faith, ICS Publications, Edith Stein’s Collected Works, vol. 8). The second, Potency and Act, was written in 1931 but published for the first time in 1998. The third was her major work, Finite and Eternal Being, written around 1935 and also published posthumously, in 1950 (Collected Works, vol. 9). Potency and Act is complementary to Finite and Eternal Being, for they are quite different in content. The approach to the study of being in Potency and Act is “modal” as the title implies; her treatment of possible worlds and of form prescribing possibilities relates to phenomenological themes and also to recent developments in logical semantics. Philosophy of religion, of course, is a central concern. We reach God not only through faith and contemplation, she says, but “by thinking,” using “logical reasoning” both from the world without (as in St. Thomas) and from the world within (“the way of St. Augustine”); indeed, God’s existence is also a “purely formal conclusion.” Her many searching analyses are suggestive in their own right: on human freedom, temporality, self-knowledge, individuality, evolution (which she “fits into the “scholastic world view”), atheism, eschatology.

Thine Own Self

Author : Sarah R Borden
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813216826
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Thine Own Self written by Sarah R Borden and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thine Own Self investigates Stein's account of human individuality and her mature philosophical positions on being and essence. Sarah Borden Sharkey shows how Stein's account of individual form adapts and updates the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition in order to account for evolution and more contemporary insights in personality and individual distinctiveness.

The Philosophy of Edith Stein

Author : Antonio Calcagno
Publisher : Duquesne
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Edith Stein written by Antonio Calcagno and published by Duquesne. This book was released on 2007 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most philosophers, the work of Edith Stein continues to be eclipsed and relegated to obscurity. This work presents an excellent cross-section of Stein's writings and demonstrates the timeliness and relevance of her ideas for contemporary philosophical scholarship. Antonio Calcagno covers most of Edith Stein's philosophical life, from her early work with Husserl to her later encounters with medieval Christian thought, as well as a critical and analytical reading of major Steinian texts. Stein was an original thinker who challenged not only the direction in which Husserlian phenomenology was progressing but also sought to bring to philosophical light the relevance of certain key questions, including the meaning of what it is to be human, the relevance of metaphysics to science, and fundamental questions about the nature of God. Working to correct the perception that Stein is either an "unfaithful and distorting" phenomenologist or a pious Catholic mystic, Calcagno presents important work that has been neglected by both secular and religious scholars. The essays are not merely expository, but discuss the philosophical questions raised by Stein's work from a contemporary perspective, using Stein's original German texts. In its attention to the breadth and depth of Stein's philosophy from its initial development to its more mature form, The Philosophy of Edith Stein offers a new understanding of an individual who left behind an incredible philosophical and literary legacy worthy of scholarly attention. The book will be of interest not only to Stein scholars, but to feminists, phenomenologists, and Heideggerians.

Edith Stein on Being Human

Author : Jose Conrado A. Estafia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (989 download)

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Download or read book Edith Stein on Being Human written by Jose Conrado A. Estafia and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study investigates Edith Stein's understanding of being human and what it can contribute to the dialogue between faith and reason. As a philosopher-saint, a study on Stein's life and thought is significant to the said dialogue. The analysis is focused on her method, starting from her study on the problem of empathy and going straight to discussing her masterwork, Finite and Eternal Being: An Attempt at an Ascent to the Meaning of Being. In this latter work, Stein claims that the human person is grounded and supported by eternal being. Her inquiry into the meaning of being begins with an exposition of the doctrine of act and potency. She further inquires about the nature of our own being. She discovered the inescapable fact of our own being. In looking at our own being the idea of a pure being or a true being or eternal being is revealed. God's nature and our own are different. Being human is only a transistion from one moment to another. The being of the ego is not all-embracing, but merely a received being, but still it is a being, making sense the term analogia entis. However, Stein believes that our conscious life cannot truly know who we are. She realizes that our search for what it means to be human brings us to that being who is the archetype and author of all finite beings. This being has disclosed himself to us as a person, even a tri-personal being. Revelation, therefore, can deepen our understanding of bein human. Steins is inviting to a dialogue between faith and reason. To conclude, Steins contribution to this dialogue consists in three things: her life, her method and her attempt to reconcile faith and reason.

Ethics and Metaphysics in the Philosophy of Edith Stein

Author : Michael F. Andrews
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030911985
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Ethics and Metaphysics in the Philosophy of Edith Stein written by Michael F. Andrews and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is dedicated to Edith Stein (1891–1942), who is known widely for her contributions to metaphysics. Though she never produced a dedicated work on questions of ethics, her corpus is replete with pertinent reflections. This book is the first major scholarly volume dedicated to exploring Stein’s ethical thought, not only for its wide-ranging content, from her earlier to later works, but also for its applications to such fields as psychology, theology, education, politics, law, and culture. Leading international scholars come together to provide a systematic account of Stein’s ethics, highlighting its relation to Stein’s highly developed and complex metaphysics. Questions about the good, evil, the rights and ethical comportment of the person, the state, and feminism are addressed. The book appeals to scholars interested in the history of philosophical and ethical thought

Beyond the Walls

Author : Joseph Palmisano
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019992502X
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Walls written by Joseph Palmisano and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Palmisano explores the interreligious significance of empathy for Jewish-Christian understanding. Drawing on the writings of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) and Edith Stein (1891-1942), he develops a phenomenological category of empathy defined as a way of ''re-membering'' oneself with the religious other. Palmisano follows Heschel's and Stein's personal and spiritual journeys through the darkest years of Nazi Germany. He shows that Heschel's call to Christian interlocutors for a return to God is an ecumenical call to humanity to embrace perceived others: a call to live life as a response to God's pathos. This call finds a prophetic answer in Edith Stein's witness of empathy with regard to the Holocaust. Stein, a Catholic, creates a dialectical bridge with the Jewish 'other,' neither distancing herself nor denying her Jewish roots. Stein's simultaneously Jewish and Christian fidelity is a model for interreligious relations. It is also a challenge to Catholics to remember their religion's Jewish heritage through new categories of witnessing and belonging with others. Beyond the Walls is a critical contribution to the fostering of interreligious understanding, offering both a model of the ideal Jewish-Christian relationship in Heschel and Stein and criteria with which to evaluate contemporary initiatives and controversies concerning interreligious dialogue.

Knowledge and Faith

Author : Edith Stein
Publisher : ICS Publications
ISBN 13 : 0935216715
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Knowledge and Faith written by Edith Stein and published by ICS Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of work from the last twelve years of Stein's life as she tried to integrate phenomenology and Christianity.

Being and Person: An Introduction to Edith Stein's

Author : Jennie Davidson Latta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Being and Person: An Introduction to Edith Stein's written by Jennie Davidson Latta and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Edith Stein (Sr. Teresia Benedicta a Cruce in religious life) devoted her major philosophical treatise to three things: (1) a confrontation of medieval philosophy, exemplified by Thomas Aquinas, with contemporary philosophy, exemplified by Edmund Husserl; (2) a response to Martin Heidegger's "Being and Time"; and (3) an attempt to ascend to the meaning of being for all of reality, both finite and eternal. She believed that a Christian philosophy was possible--one that made use of revealed truth in the quest for a reasoned understanding of all that is. She believed that the phenomenological method provided a bridge to the medieval philosophical system of Thomas Aquinas. She wanted to share with her philosophical contemporaries the wealth that she had discovered in Catholic philosophy by "transposing" the ideas of one culture and time into her own. The task that she undertook was enormous. Like a true scientist, she left the notes of her experiments and discoveries so that those who followed behind her could take up research for their own. Because the work could not be published in her lifetime, she was never able to revise and focusit in light of the response that should have been its right, and the work was neglected for number of years.As the result of her canonization by the Roman Catholic Church in 1998, however, a great deal of effort is being made now to make her work better known in philosophical circles and to carry through the projects that she proposed. This dissertation is intended as a contribution to that effort. It provides an introduction to "Finite and Eternal Being" by including chapters on Edith Stein's philosophical formation and method, historical background and context, and the reception of the work upon its publication. The core of the dissertation consists in two chapters devoted to a fairly careful reading of two themes within the work, those of being and person. The conclusion suggests areas for further research. The dissertation is intended to provide a way for students of phenomenology who are unfamiliar with Thomism, and for students of Thomism who are unfamiliar with phenomenology, to take up the work for themselves.

Edith Stein: Women, Social-Political Philosophy, Theology, Metaphysics and Public History

Author : Antonio Calcagno
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319211242
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book Edith Stein: Women, Social-Political Philosophy, Theology, Metaphysics and Public History written by Antonio Calcagno and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-11 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the work and thought of Edith Stein (1891–1942). It discusses in detail, and from new perspectives, the traditional areas of her thinking, including her ideas about women/feminism, theology, and metaphysics. In addition, it introduces readers to new and/or understudied areas of her thought, including her views on history, and her social and political philosophy. The guiding thread that connects all the essays in this book is the emphasis on new approaches and novel applications of her philosophy. The contributions both extend the interdisciplinary implications of Stein’s thinking for our contemporary world and apply her insights to questions of theatre, public history and biographical representation, education, politics, autism, theological debates, feminism, sexuality studies and literature. The volume brings together for the first time leading scholars in five language-groups, including English, German, Italian, French and Spanish-speaking authors, thereby reflecting an international and cosmopolitan approach to Stein studies.

The Science of the Cross

Author : Edith Stein
Publisher : ICS Publications
ISBN 13 : 0935216316
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book The Science of the Cross written by Edith Stein and published by ICS Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overview: To help celebrate the fourth centenary of the birth of St. John of the Cross in 1542, Edith Stein received the task of preparing a study of his writings. She uses her skill as a philosopher to enter into an illuminating reflection on the difference between the two symbols of cross and night. Pointing out how entering the night is synonymous with carrying the cross, she provides a condensed presentation of John's thought on the active and passive nights, as discussed in The Ascent of Mount Carmel and The Dark Night. All of this leads Edith to speak of the glory of resurrection that the soul shares, through a unitive contemplation described chiefly in The Living Flame of Love. In the summer of 1942, the Nazis without warrant took Edith away. The nuns found the manuscript of this profound study lying open in her room. Because of the Nazis' merciless persecution of Jews in Germany, Edith Stein traveled discreetly across the border into Holland to find safe harbor in the Carmel of Echt. But the Nazi invasion of Holland in 1940 again put Edith in danger. The cross weighed down heavily as those of Jewish birth were harassed. Sr. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross's superiors then assigned her a task they thought would take her mind off the threatening situation. The fourth centenary of the birth, of St. John of the Cross (1542) was approaching, and Edith could surely contribute a valuable study for the celebration. It is no surprise that in view of her circumstances she discovered in the subject of the cross a central viewpoint for her study. A subject like this enabled her to grasp John's unity of being as expressed in his life and works. Using her training in phenomenology, she helps the reader apprehend the difference in the symbolic character of cross and night and why the night-symbol prevails in John. She clarifies that detachment is designated by him as a night through which the soul must pass to reach union with God and points out how entering the night is equivalent to carrying the cross. Finally, in a fascinating way Edith speaks of how the heart or fountainhead of personal life, an inmost region, is present in both God and the soul and that in the spiritual marriage this inmost region is surrendered by each to the other. She observes that in the soul seized by God in contemplation all that is mortal is consumed in the fire of eternal love. The spirit as spirit is destined for immortal being, to move through fire along a path from the cross of Christ to the glory of his resurrection.

The Presence of Duns Scotus in the Thought of Edith Stein

Author : Francesco Alfieri
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319156632
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book The Presence of Duns Scotus in the Thought of Edith Stein written by Francesco Alfieri and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-23 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the phenomenological anthropology of Edith Stein. It specifically focuses on the question which Stein addressed in her work Finite and Eternal Being: What is the foundational principle that makes the individual unique and unrepeatable within the human species? Traditional analyses of Edith Stein’s writings have tended to frame her views on this issue as being influenced by Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, while neglecting her interest in the lesser-known figure of Duns Scotus. Yet, as this book shows, with regard to the question of individuality, Stein was critical of Aquinas’ approach, finding that of Duns Scotus to be more convincing. In order to get to the heart of Stein’s readings of Duns Scotus, this book looks at her published writings and her personal correspondence, in addition to conducting a meticulous analysis of the original codexes on which her sources were based. Written with diligence and flair, the book critically evaluates the authenticity of Stein’s sources and shows how the position of Scotus himself evolved. It highlights the originality of Stein’s contribution, which was to rediscover the relevance of Mediaeval scholastic thought and reinterpret it in the language of the Phenomenological school founded by Edmund Husserl.

Human and Divine Being

Author : Donald Wallenfang
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498293360
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Human and Divine Being written by Donald Wallenfang and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing is more dangerous to be misunderstood than the question, "What is the human being?" In an era when this question is not only being misunderstood but even forgotten, wisdom delivered by the great thinkers and mystics of the past must be recovered. Edith Stein (1891-1942), a Jewish Carmelite mystical philosopher, offers great promise to resume asking the question of the human being. In Human and Divine Being, Donald Wallenfang offers a comprehensive summary of the theological anthropology of this heroic martyr to truth. Beginning with the theme of human vocation, Wallenfang leads the reader through a labyrinth of philosophical and theological vignettes: spiritual being, the human soul, material being, empathy, the logic of the cross, and the meaning of suffering. The question of the human being is asked in light of divine being by harnessing the fertile tension between the methods of phenomenology and metaphysics. Stein spurs us on to a rendezvous with the stream of "perennial philosophy" that has watered the landscape of thought since conscious time began. In the end, the meaning of human being is thrown into sharp relief against the darkness of all that is not authentically human.