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The Inviolable Mystery of the Person

I devote my very rare free moments to a work that is close to my heart and devoted to the metaphysical sense and mystery of the person. It seems to me that the debate today is being played on that level. The evil of our times consists in the first place in a kind of degradation, indeed a pulverization, of the fundamental uniqueness of each human person. This evil is even much more of the metaphysical order than of the moral order. To this disintegration, planned at times by atheistic ideologies, we must oppose, rather than sterile polemics, a kind of ‘recapitulation’ of the inviolable mystery of the person.
Karol Wojtyla

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The Irreducibility of the Human Person: A Catholic Synthesis

Wednesday, October 12, at 12:00 p.m. ET.
The Hildebrand Project is happy to present the new book by Mark K. Spencer, The Irreducibility of the Human Person: A Catholic Synthesis, published by CUA Press.

Mark is professor of philosophy at the University of St. Thomas, MN and the Hildebrand Project Fellow for Aesthetics & Metaphysics.

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The Hildebrand Project is Hiring

The Hildebrand Project is on the cusp of catalytic growth, with expanding programs, events, publications, and constantly developing new opportunities to bring the life-giving philosophy of Christian personalism to a…

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Summer Grant Recipients

The Hildebrand Project is pleased to announce the recipients of our 2022 summer grants. Summer grants make possible a period of focused engagement with Hildebrandian and personalist ideas resulting in…

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Dietrich von Hildebrand Institute for Philosophy and Realist Phenomenology Spring/Summer Semester

Led by Josef Seifert, the Dietrich von Hildebrand Institute for Philosophy and Realist Phenomenology (DHIP) offers advanced philosophy courses in-person and online. The Spring/Summer lecture course Philosophie des Geistes —…

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Summer Reading Course & Graduate Residency

The Hildebrand Project is pleased to announce a new graduate-level reading course (July 17 – 20) as well as our 4th annual graduate residency (July 20 – 23).

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Summer Grants

The Hildebrand Project is pleased to accept applications for grants of $3,000 for writing projects in May-September 2022 on any theme in the thought of Dietrich von Hildebrand or in…

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