Abstract
On her intellectual journey to the truth, which she after all defined as God himself, Edith Stein had managed to combine two philosophical approaches such as phenomenology and thomism. Former approach was considered by her as a method of describing the reality, which after fulfilling certain steps of methodology, could allow one to reveal the essence of things. The latter one, was perceived by her as a wide and versatile source of ideas obtained not only from epistemology and ontology, but also human philosophy and theology. These ideas were adopted by Stein and developed by her own sophisticated implications. By comparing Thomas Aquinas’ analysis on understanding the truths, contained in the first two parts of Disputed Questions on Truth (Questiones Dispu- tatae de veritate), with her reflections on the same aspect included in Finite and Eternal Being: An Attempt to an Ascent to the Meaning of Being, Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross discloses her explanation of synthesising these two philosophical schools, with her reasons and consequences of doing so.