Motivation in Edith Stein

This article seeks[aut]Calcagno, Antonio to: (1) give a comprehensive account of motivationMotivation based on Edith Stein’s[aut]Stein, Edith early phenomenological corpus; (2) explain how it is distinct from psychic causalityPsychic Causality; (3) situate motivationMotivation within Stein’s understanding of the human person, ultimately showing how motivation comes to be intertwined with the lived bodyBody, psychePsyche, and spiritSpirit as integral constituent moment of the unity that lies at the core of Steinian personhood; (4) show how motivationMotivation comes to play an important role in Stein’s writings on woman and in her social ontology, especially when it comes to the discussion of values, including the valueValue of the stateState; (5) reflect on the strengths and potential limits of Stein’s account.