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SUMMARY:Aesthetics Vol. I
DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\n\n\n\nMay 1\, 8\, 15\, and 22 \n\n\n\n\nA four-week reading group through Aesthetics – Volume I with with Jim Beauregard.\n\n\n\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Thursdays (May 1st\, 8th\, 15th\, and 22nd\, 2026) from 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT. \n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Text\n\n\n\nWritten in the early 1970s during the last years of his life\, as if harvesting a lifetime of reflection\, Aesthetics is Dietrich von Hildebrand’s comprehensive two-volume study and defense of beauty and art.  \n\n\n\n“Aesthetics [is] best understood as an explosion of insights\,” writes Alice von Hildebrand\, widow of Dietrich\, in a note on the text. “He knew he was running out of time\, and so he tried to capture the Niagara Falls of ideas that flowed out of him.” \n\n\n\nFor those familiar with Hildebrand’s background\, it is no surprise that beauty should be a central theme in his thought. His father\, Adolf von Hildebrand\, was one of the most revered German sculptors of the turn-of-the-century period and Dietrich von Hildebrand grew up in a world filled with many of Europe’s leading artists\, musicians\, and writers. \n\n\n\nFormat\n\n\n\nThe meeting will be conducted live in Zoom. Links for the session will be sent out ahead of time. \n\n\n\nTo allow for rich discussion\, the group is limited in size to a maximum of 20 participants. Once the group is full\, additional registrations will be placed on a waitlist. \n\n\n\nAll participants are expected to have a copy of the text and to come prepared to each session having done the weekly reading (15-45 pages per week). The weekly reading schedule will be emailed to you. \n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\nJames Beauregard\, PhD is a clinical neuropsychologist who is also currently working on a PhD\, in philosophy at the University of Anáhuac\, where his doctoral dissertation focuses on the aesthetics of Dietrich von Hildebrand. He has taught in doctoral and master’s level psychology programs (Biological Bases of Behavior\, Neuropsychology\, Healthcare Ethics\, Educational Neuroscience and Aging). His research interests are in the fields of neuroethics and personalist philosophy\, including the intersection of these two areas as they impact our understandings of personhood. He is a member of the International Neuroethics Society\, the Spanish Personalist Association and the International Conference on Persons (where he serves on the board of directors). He has presented on personalism in the United States\, Europe and Central America. His recent publications includePhilosophical Neuroethics: A Personalist Approach\, Vol. 1\, Foundations and Philosophical Neuroethics\, Vol. 2: Practical Neuroethics. His interest in personalist thought was sparked early in his college days when he first read Karol Wojtyla/Pope John Paul II’s The Acting Person and Redemptor Hominis. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nCosts\n\n\n\nReading groups are free to attend. \n\n\n\nIf you are able\, we invite you to make a donation to help defray the costs of organizing (reading groups cost the Hildebrand Project ~$900 for a four-week group). We are committed to making reading groups accessible to all; therefore\, participation is not contingent on a donation. \n\n\n\nYour gift support this reading group\, our publications\, web resources\, and other events\, all of which contribute to bringing the vital\, life-giving witness of personalist philosophy into new and uncertain times. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLevel: \n\n\n\nSuitable for intermediate to advanced: primarily discussion. \n\n\n\n\n\nReadings: \n\n\n\nforthcoming \n\n\n\n\n\nTime:\n\n\n\n3:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now
URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/aesthetics-vol-i/
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SUMMARY:What is Philosophy?
DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\n\n\n\nMay 6\, 13\, 20\, 27 \n\n\n\n\nA four-week reading group through What is Philosophy? with with Robert McNamara.\n\n\n\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Wednesdays in May (May 6\, 13\, 20\, 27) from 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM EDT. \n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Text\n\n\n\nHildebrand begins by analyzing closely the receptivity that is proper to all kinds of knowledge. As a result\, he holds a robust philosophical realism according to which the mind does not impose its terms on the object known\, but receives the object on the object’s own terms. \n\n\n\nHildebrand’s What Is Philosophy? is perhaps the most significant and nuanced work we have that defends the position of realist phenomenology.  \n\n\n\nFormat\n\n\n\nThe meeting will be conducted live in Zoom. Links for the session will be sent out ahead of time. \n\n\n\nTo allow for rich discussion\, the group is limited in size to a maximum of 20 participants. Once the group is full\, additional registrations will be placed on a waitlist. \n\n\n\nAll participants are expected to have a copy of the text and to come prepared to each session having done the weekly reading (15-45 pages per week). The weekly reading schedule will be emailed to you. \n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\nDr. Robert McNamara is lecturer in philosophy and head of philosophy department at St. Patrick’s Pontifical University\, Ireland\, adjunct professor of philosophy at Franciscan University of Steubenville\, USA\, while also tutoring periodically at the ITI Catholic University\, Austria\, and the Maryvale Institute\, England. Robert is also an associate series editor of Edith Stein Studies\, an associate scholar of the Hildebrand Project\, a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Man and Woman\, and a founding member of the Aquinas Institute of Ireland (currently suspended). Having studied physics\, computing\, philosophy\, and theology\, Robert brings a multidisciplinary perspective to his work while exploring anthropological and metaphysical themes in ancient\, medieval\, and phenomenological thinkers\, with a defined focus on philosophical personalism in the Christian tradition. He currently resides in Maynooth\, Ireland\, with his wife\, Caroline\, and their five children. \n\n\n\n\nCosts\n\n\n\nReading groups are free to attend. \n\n\n\nIf you are able\, we invite you to make a donation to help defray the costs of organizing (reading groups cost the Hildebrand Project ~$900 for a four-week group). We are committed to making reading groups accessible to all; therefore\, participation is not contingent on a donation. \n\n\n\nYour gift support this reading group\, our publications\, web resources\, and other events\, all of which contribute to bringing the vital\, life-giving witness of personalist philosophy into new and uncertain times. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLevel: \n\n\n\nSuitable for intermediate to advanced: primarily discussion. \n\n\n\n\n\nTime:\n\n\n\n12:30 PM – 1:30 PM EDT \n\n\n\n\n\nReading:\n\n\n\nforthcoming \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now
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SUMMARY:Morality and Situation Ethics
DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\n\n\n\nJune 2\, 9\, 16\, 23 \n\n\n\n\nA four-week reading group through Morality and Situation Ethics with with Jason Bell.\n\n\n\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Tuesdays in June (June 2\, 9\, 16\, 23) from 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST. \n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Coming Soon\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Text\n\n\n\nIs morality relative? Does it depend on one’s perspective or on external circumstances?  \n\n\n\nIt has become popular\, even commonplace\, to assert that what is moral is dependent on one’s situation. Dietrich von Hildebrand saw this trend coming\, and at the earliest outset he authored this book as a refutation of “situation ethics” and an affirmation of the unchanging and universal call of true morality.  \n\n\n\nThe book takes up the central challenge of situation ethics to argue\, definitively\, that some actions are always and in every situation wrong. But Hildebrand is sensitive to the special circumstances of individual people’s lives\, and he does far more than simply offer judgment. He leads us first to understand the allure of “self-righteousness\,” of “the tragic sinner\,” and of “sin mysticism\,” and how these can obscure true morality. \n\n\n\nFormat\n\n\n\nThe meeting will be conducted live in Zoom. Links for the session will be sent out ahead of time. \n\n\n\nTo allow for rich discussion\, the group is limited in size to a maximum of 20 participants. Once the group is full\, additional registrations will be placed on a waitlist. \n\n\n\nAll participants are expected to have a copy of the text and to come prepared to each session having done the weekly reading (15-45 pages per week). The weekly reading schedule will be emailed to you. \n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\nJason Bell is associate professor of philosophy at the University of New Brunswick. He has taught in the graduate program at the Higher Institute of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium and at Mount Allison University in Canada\, and has served at the University of Göttingen as Fulbright Professor\, as scholar-in-residence at Boston University\, as Onderzoeksfonds Research Fellow at the Husserl Archives\, and as d’Alzon Fellow at Assumption University. He was awarded the doctorate in philosophy at Vanderbilt University. His research focuses on ethics and the relation of American and European philosophy. \n\n\n\n\nCosts\n\n\n\nReading groups are free to attend. \n\n\n\nIf you are able\, we invite you to make a donation to help defray the costs of organizing (reading groups cost the Hildebrand Project ~$900 for a four-week group). We are committed to making reading groups accessible to all; therefore\, participation is not contingent on a donation. \n\n\n\nYour gift support this reading group\, our publications\, web resources\, and other events\, all of which contribute to bringing the vital\, life-giving witness of personalist philosophy into new and uncertain times. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLevel: \n\n\n\nSuitable for intermediate to advanced: primarily discussion. \n\n\n\n\n\nTime:\n\n\n\n8:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT \n\n\n\n\n\nReading:\n\n\n\nforthcoming \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Coming Soon
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