What should I read before Edith Stein and Gabriel Marcel? Like Kant, Hegel etc... is that necessary?I'm taking the Start with the Greeks approach -- so far, I've read the presocratics, some plato and aristotle, and some of the early church fathers but nothing modern at all.I intend to read everything in between eventually but I'd like to take a break and go off on a tangent for a few months.
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>>23323088Maurice Blondel is absolutely essential.
>>23323092I didn't know MacIntyre wrote about Stein, that's pretty cool.
>>23323088The three H's (Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger)You'll have a better grasp afterwards of Stein, Marcel, and most recently Marion. The phenomenologists in general have been opened to interpretation by continental Catholic philosophers everywhere today. Heidegger thought though becomes the greater point of contention; the question of Being is brought up all the time in modern Catholic (metaphysical) philosophy, which I think preserves John 1:1, logos as God.
>>23323088Why do you want to read the moderns? Wouldn't it be better to read the Doctors of the Church after reading the Greeks? Are you in it to be a better Christian or for Academic reasons?
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>>23324589They should read Max Scheler instead. And are you really claiming Heidegger's deconstruction of western metaphysics as in line with John? Heidegger is clearly a giga-atheist. That said, he did revert back to Catholicism at the end of his life.
>>23324812Heidegger was a polytheist
>>23324251Where should I start with Blondel?
>>23324651The works of the Doctors of the Church are on my reading list. However, I'm also interested in Catholic thought today and how it differs from Thomism, which I understand to be the dominant current of theological understanding in the Church for centuries.I'm reading for my own interest and also to become a better Christian so I guess for both reasons but ofc the latter would take precedence.
>>23324873Care to post a quotation?
>>23323088>>23323092I gifted my mom an Edith Stein book for Christmas
