Abstract

Although the issue of the masculine spirit is not the direct object of Stein’s reflections, she does give us, men, a few suggestive hints referring to the matter of “what”. A man’s main purpose is to reflect the image of God the Father in himself. ‘I and the Father are one’. The fact that the masculine spirit differs from the feminine spirit in its inner characteristics is the starting point for Stein’s reflections over feminine duties. Their difference brings up the question posed by Stein in the final parts of her Endliches und ewiges Sein.