How can we understand others in a productive and meaningful way without hurting ourselves and others? What kind of understanding is entailed in this? When is its beginning and when its fulfillment? These and more questions are crucial in our daily life since we are condemned to a relational existence in which we either end up in a mess or bear fruit from it. Edith Stein (1891-1942) offers empathy as a meaningful way of relating with others. Her investigation on empathy establishes its phenomenological ground that eventually opens up to the spiritual dimension of empathetic understanding. ...