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SUMMARY:The Nature of Love
DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\n\n\n\nJuly 6\, 13\, 20\, 27 \n\n\n\n\nA four-week reading group through The Nature of Love with Derek Jeffreys.\n\n\n\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Monday evenings (July 6\, 13\, 20\, 27) from 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM ET. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin the Waitlist\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Text\n\n\n\nIn this study on love a new side of Dietrich von Hildebrand’s thought emerges. Hildebrand is here led into areas of personal subjectivity that he did not have the occasion to explore in his ethical writings. In a most original way he shows that the desire to be loved by the person whom one loves has nothing to do with selfishness; he shows that this desire to be loved and so to be united with the other person is itself a kind of self-donation to the other. Thus Hildebrand resists the altruism that claims that one is selfless toward the beloved person only by willing the good of the other in such a way as to be indifferent to being loved in return. On the other hand\, he equally resists the claim that the happiness of the one who loves is the primary motive of love. Hildebrand indicates the radically other-centered direction of love\, while avoiding the pitfall of a depersonalized altruism. Thus he does justice both to the extraordinary self-transcendence of love as well as to subjectivity of love. This work constitutes a major contribution to the Christian personalism that Hildebrand represents. \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 e-mailed to you. \n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\n\nDerek Jeffreys\n\n\n\n\n\nDerek S. Jeffreys is a professor of Humanities\, Religion and Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin\, Green Bay. He did both his B.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. He has written books on St. John Paul II\, ethics and torture\, and ethics and solitary confinement. His most recent book is America’s Jails: The Search for Human Dignity in An Age of Mass Incarceration. Jeffreys teaches courses on love\, Thomas Aquinas\, ethics\, ethics and punishment\, evil\, Dante\, Buddhism\, and other topics. For more than a decade he has been involved in jail and prison education\, giving volunteer religion and philosophy lectures to inmates in Wisconsin’s jails and prisons. He is married and proud father of twin boys. \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\nReadings:\n\n\n\nWeek 1: IntroductionWeek 2: Chapter 1Week 3: Chapter 3Week 4: Chapter 6 \n\n\n\n\n\nTime:\n\n\n\n7:00 PM – 8:00 PM ET \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin the Waitlist
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260602T200000
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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\nJoin the Waitlist\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\nJoin the Waitlist
URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/morality-and-situation-ethics/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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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\nJoin the Waitlist\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\nJoin the Waitlist
URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/what-is-philosophy/
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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 Fridays (May 1st\, 8th\, 15th\, and 22nd\, 2026) from 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT. \n\n\n\n\n\nJoin the Waitlist\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\nJoin the waitlist
URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/aesthetics-vol-i/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260409T130000
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SUMMARY:The Art of Living
DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\n\n\n\nApril 9\, 16\, 23\, and 30 \n\n\n\n\nA four-week reading group through The Art of Living with with Catherine Yanko.\n\n\n\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Thursday afternoons in April (April 9\, 16\, 23\, & 30) from 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT. \n\n\n\n\n\nJoin the Waitlist\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Text\n\n\n\nA book of everyday ethics by a man whom Pope St. John Paul II called “one of the great ethicists of the twentieth century\,” The Art of Living is Dietrich von Hildebrand’s essential guide to the moral life. \n\n\n\nIn just over one hundred pages\, Dietrich von Hildebrand\, with his wife Alice\, presents a distinctive view of the virtuous life that begins with reverence\, “the mother of all virtues\,” and includes chapters on “Faithfulness\,” “Goodness\,” “Hope\,” “The Human Heart\,” and many others. \n\n\n\nThe essays that make up this book began as a popular series of radio lectures in 1930s Germany\, and their conversational tone comes through in this new edition\, which maintains Alice von Hildebrand’s original translation\, and updates this beloved work for a new generation of readers. \n\n\n\nThe Art of Living promises to provide clarity\, hope\, and fresh insights for those seeking to live life more fully\, faithfully\, and beautifully. \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\nCatherine Yanko is an Assistant Professor of Theology at Belmont Abbey College. Catherine was first introduced to Dietrich von Hildebrand as an undergraduate Student Fellow of the Hildebrand Project. She is completing her doctoral studies at the Catholic University of America where she studied Moral Theology/Ethics and wrote her dissertation on the topic of human freedom and self-realization. Her main interests are in theological/philosophical anthropology\, action and virtue theory\, post-conciliar moral theology\, and fundamental moral theology.  \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 those at any level of familiarity with Hildebrand. \n\n\n\n\n\nTime:\n\n\n\n1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT \n\n\n\n\n\nReading:\n\n\n\nWeek 1: Chapter 1Week 2: Chapter 2 – 4Week 3: Chapters 5 – 7Week 4: Chapters 8 – 9 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin the Waitlist
URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/art-of-living-261/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260408T120000
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SUMMARY:Ethics
DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\n\n\n\nApril 8\, 15\, 22\, and 29\, 2026 \n\n\n\n\nA four-week reading group through Ethics with Martin Cajthaml\n\n\n\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Wednesday afternoons (April 8\, 15\, 22\, and 29\, 2026) from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin the waitlist\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Text\n\n\n\nDietrich von Hildebrand offers here the most nuanced version we have of a value-based ethics\, building on the ethics of Max Scheler\, but going far beyond it. On this basis he develops his signature concept of value-response\, wherein a person gives value its due\, along with his signature concept of the transcendence of the person in value-response. He re-thinks virtue theory on the basis of his value philosophy\, and in doing so he places virtue at the center of his ethics long before the revival of virtue theory in Anglo-American thought. \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 e-mailed to you. \n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\n\nMartin Cajthaml\, Associated Scholar\n\n\n\n\n\nMartin Cajthaml studied philosophy at the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University in Prague from 1991-1993. He went on to study philosophy and psychology at the International Academy of Philosophy in the Principality of Lichtenstein (IAP). In 2000\, he earned his PhD in philosophy at the IAP with the dissertation Kritik des Relativismus. In 2000-2007 he worked as assistant-professor at the IAP. 2007-2011 he worked as assistant-professor at the Department of Philosophy and Patrology of Sts Cyril and Methodius Faculty of Theology of Palacký University Olomouc. Since his Habilitation at the Faculty of Arts of the Palacký University in 2011\, he is the head of the Department of Philosophy and Patrology and an associate professor. \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\n\nLevel: \n\n\n\nSuitable for those with some philosophical background. \n\n\n\n\n\nReadings:\n\n\n\nWeek 1: Ch 1 pp 13-47Week 2: Ch 1 pp 47-73Week 3: Ch 2Week 4: Ch 6 & 9*All from Ethics \n\n\n\n\n\nTime:\n\n\n\n12:00 PM – 1:00 PM ET \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin the Waitlist
URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/ethics-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260304T160000
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SUMMARY:Graven Images: Substitutes for True Morality
DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\n\n\n\nMarch 4\, 11\, 18\, and 25 \n\n\n\n\nA four-week reading group through Graven Images with Jim Beauregard.\n\n\n\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Wednesday afternoons (March 4\, 11\, 18 and 25) from 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM ET. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin the waitlist\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Text\n\n\n\nDietrich von Hildebrand provides a uniquely in-depth and astute analysis of the many ways we substitute false idols (the “graven images”) for true Christian morality. This is not a simple book on the differences between good and evil; most people do not replace true morality with pure evil\, but with some other “extramoral” good\, like “respectability” or “honor.” Hildebrand guides us through these false alternatives\, helping to show both what is good in them\, but also where they fall short of the uniqueness of true Christian 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 e-mailed to you. \n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\n\nJim Beauregard\, Associated Scholar\n\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\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\n\nLevel: \n\n\n\nSuitable for those with some philosophical background. \n\n\n\n\n\nReadings:\n\n\n\nWeek 1: Chapter 11\, “Christian Morality”Week 2: Chapter 1\, “The Nature of the Substitutes” & Chapter 2\, “Substitutes and Other Moral Deformations”Week 3: Chapter 3\, “Survey of the Main Substitutes”Week 4: Chapter 4\, “Naive and Heretic Substitutes” & Chapter 5\, “Extramoral Values” \n\n\n\n\n\nTime:\n\n\n\n4:00 PM – 5:00 PM ET \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin the Waitlist
URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/graven-images-substitutes-for-true-morality/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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SUMMARY:The Heart
DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\n\n\n\nFebruary 3\, 10\, 17\, and 24 \n\n\n\n\nA four-week reading group through The Heart with Maria Fedoryka.\n\n\n\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Tuesday evenings (February 3\, 10\, 17\, and 24) from 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM ET. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin the Waitlist\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Text\n\n\n\nIn The Heart\, Hildebrand is concerned rehabilitating the affective life of the human person. He thinks that for too long philosophers have held it in suspicion and thought of it as much inferior to the intellect and will\, whereas in reality the heart\, the center of affectivity\, is just important a center of personal life as intellect and will. Hildebrand develops the idea that affectivity\, rather than tending away from an objective relation to things\, is in fact necessary for a fully objective relation to the world. Hildebrand also developed the important idea that the heart is “in many respects is more the real self of the person than his intellect or will.” The second half of The Heart makes the philosophical analysis fruitful for our understanding of the affectivity of the God-Man. Here readers will not only find important contributions to theology and spirituality but also an illuminating re-reading of familiar Scriptural passages. \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 e-mailed to you. \n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Maria Fedoryka lectures and publishes in both academic and popular fora in the field of the philosophy of love\, examining issues spanning from the centrality of love in the being of God\, to its role at the center of creation\, to its meaning for marriage\, family\, and sexuality. Having been captivated by the writings of Dietrich von Hildebrand as a teenager and deeply drawn to his phenomenological and personalist philosophy\, she pursued her studies under Josef Seifert and John Crosby at the International Academy of Philosophy. Among her scholarly writings are an analysis of Dietrich von Hildebrand’s philosophy of marital intimacy and procreation titled Finis superabundant Operis: Refining an Ancient Cause for Understanding the Spousal Act in the ACPQ\, and “‘God is Love’”: Personal Plurality as the Completion of Aristotle’s Notion of Substance and Love as the Absolute Ground of the Divine Being” in the Proceedings of the ACPA. Among her popular publications are the booklet The Special Gift of Women for God\, the Family and the World published by the Catholic Truth Society in England. She is currently working on an article comparing Hildebrand’s and Aquinas’s philosophy of affectivity\, as well as an article on Hildebrand’s theory of motivation as the key to understanding deliberate moral wrongdoing. \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\n\nLevel: \n\n\n\nSuitable for those with some philosophical background. \n\n\n\n\n\nReadings:\n\n\n\nWeek 1: Forthcoming \n\n\n\n\n\nTime:\n\n\n\n7:00 PM – 8:00 PM ET \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin the Waitlist
URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/the-heart/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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SUMMARY:Liturgy & Personality
DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\n\n\n\nJanuary 8\, 15\, 22\, and 29 \n\n\n\n\nA four-week reading group through Liturgy & Personality with DT Sheffler.\n\n\n\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Thursdays at 5:00pm EST. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin the Waitlist\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Text\n\n\n\nA precursor to the “Liturgical Movement” of the twentieth century\, Dietrich von Hildebrand’s Liturgy and Personality is an awe-filled appreciation of Mass and its role in personal formation. Written by a philosopher who had recently converted to Catholicism\, the book awakens us to see with fresh eyes the true beauty of the liturgy. \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 e-mailed to you. \n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDT Sheffler is a philosopher who specializes in the history of the concept of the person. He was profoundly touched by reading Martin Buber’s I and Thou as a teenager and\, a few years later\, Christian personalists\, especially Dietrich von Hildebrand and Karol Wojtyła. This combined with a passionate interest in Ancient philosophy and patristic thought to produce an investigation into the origins of personalism and the foundations for the insights achieved in the twentieth century. This led to doctoral work on Plato’s conception of the self and the soul as a way to understand the pre-Christian background of early Christian thought. He has also continued his research of personalism\, especially the thought of Dietrich von Hildebrand and has participated in the Hildebrand Project in various ways since 2015. Dan lives in Louisville with his wife and three children where he teaches philosophy at Memoria College. \n\n\n\nDT Sheffler is an Associated Scholar at the Hildebrand Project and author of the book\, Plato and Christian Personalism (Hildebrand Press\, 2025). \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 beginner to intermediate: primarily discussion. \n\n\n\n\n\nReadings:\n\n\n\nWeek 1: Front Matter\, Chapters 1–3Week 2: Chapters 4–6Week 3: Chapters 7–8Week 4: Chapters 9–11\, Afterward \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nTime:\n\n\n\n\n5:00pm Eastern Standard Time\n\n\n\nDuration: One Hour\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin the Waitlist
URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/liturgy-personality/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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SUMMARY:Essays on Woman
DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\n\n\n\nOctober 30\, November 6\, 13\, 20 \n\n\n\n\nA four-week reading group through Essays on Woman by Edith Stein with Dr. William Tullius.\n\n\n\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Wednesdays (October 30\, November 6\, 13\, 20) at 7:00 – 8:00 PM ET. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Text\n\n\n\nEdith Stein’s writings on woman are the fruit of both reflection and debate with other leaders of the Catholic feminist movement in German-speaking countries between the World Wars. This second revised edition of Essays on Woman includes textual corrections\, important new supplementary data\, and previously unavailable material on the spirituality of the lay and religious woman. These essays crystalize long hours of experience teaching in the classroom and on the speaker’s platform in the pursuit of fulfilling roles for women in all walks of life. \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 e-mailed to you. \n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWilliam Tullius holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the New School for Social Research and is currently an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at American Public University System. His main areas of research revolve around the development of a phenomenological ethical theory through the study of such phenomenological thinkers as Edmund Husserl\, Max Scheler\, and Edith Stein. He recently published a book on Edith Stein’s moral philosophy titled Outlines of Morality: On the Ethical Philosophy of Edith Stein\, available now from by Lexington Books as part of the Edith Stein Studies series. \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\nReadings:\n\n\n\nA schedule of readings will be sent to each participant. \n\n\n\n\n\nTime:\n\n\n\n7:00 PM – 8:00 PM \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now
URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/essays-on-woman-oct-2024/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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SUMMARY:The Privilege of Being a Woman
DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\n\n\n\nOctober 10\, 17\, 24 \n\n\n\n\nA three-week journey through Alice von Hildebrand’s The Privilege of Being a Woman with with Susanna Spencer.\n\n\n\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Thursdays (October 10\, 17\, 24) from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Text\n\n\n\nIn The Privilege of Being a Woman\, Alice von Hildebrand examines the claims of radical feminists like Simone de Beauvoir. She counterposes these claims against the example of the Virgin Mary to reveal what she calls the feminine gifts of purity\, receptivity\, and life-giving nurturing. \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 e-mailed to you. \n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSusanna Spencer holds an MA in theology and a BA in philosophy and theology from Franciscan University of Steubenville. She is now the Theological and Content Editor for Blessed is She\, as well as a freelance contributor to the National Catholic Register. In addition to writing hundreds of articles and devotions over the years for these and other publications\, she is the author of two books: Seek His Kingdom\, a guided meditative Bible study on the Gospel of St. Matthew; and Listen to Him\, a guided meditative Bible study of the Gospel of St. Mark. She is also the co-author of Rise Up: Shining with Virtue\, a widely read children’s devotional on the virtues. She also has a Substack blog called Living with Lady Philosophy\, which she co-authors with her husband\, Mark. \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\nReadings: \n\n\n\nSession 1: Parts 1–2Session 2: Parts 3–5Session 3: Parts 6–9 \n\n\n\n\n\nTime:\n\n\n\n12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now
URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/privilege-reading-group-2024/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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SUMMARY:The Nature of Love
DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\n\n\n\nOctober 8\, 15\, 22\, 29 \n\n\n\n\nA four-week reading group through The Nature of Love with Derek Jeffreys.\n\n\n\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Tuesday evenings (October 8\, 15\, 22\, 29) from 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM ET. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Text\n\n\n\nIn this study on love a new side of Dietrich von Hildebrand’s thought emerges. Hildebrand is here led into areas of personal subjectivity that he did not have the occasion to explore in his ethical writings. In a most original way he shows that the desire to be loved by the person whom one loves has nothing to do with selfishness; he shows that this desire to be loved and so to be united with the other person is itself a kind of self-donation to the other. Thus Hildebrand resists the altruism that claims that one is selfless toward the beloved person only by willing the good of the other in such a way as to be indifferent to being loved in return. On the other hand\, he equally resists the claim that the happiness of the one who loves is the primary motive of love. Hildebrand indicates the radically other-centered direction of love\, while avoiding the pitfall of a depersonalized altruism. Thus he does justice both to the extraordinary self-transcendence of love as well as to subjectivity of love. This work constitutes a major contribution to the Christian personalism that Hildebrand represents. \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 e-mailed to you. \n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\n\nDerek Jeffreys\n\n\n\n\n\nDerek S. Jeffreys is a professor of Humanities\, Religion and Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin\, Green Bay. He did both his B.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. He has written books on St. John Paul II\, ethics and torture\, and ethics and solitary confinement. His most recent book is America’s Jails: The Search for Human Dignity in An Age of Mass Incarceration. Jeffreys teaches courses on love\, Thomas Aquinas\, ethics\, ethics and punishment\, evil\, Dante\, Buddhism\, and other topics. For more than a decade he has been involved in jail and prison education\, giving volunteer religion and philosophy lectures to inmates in Wisconsin’s jails and prisons. He is married and proud father of twin boys. \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\nReadings:\n\n\n\nWeek 1: IntroductionWeek 2: Chapter 1Week 3: Chapter 3Week 4: Chapter 6 \n\n\n\n\n\nTime:\n\n\n\n7:00 PM – 8:00 PM ET \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now
URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/the-nature-of-love-oct-2024/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240705T120000
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SUMMARY:Ethics – Part 2
DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\n\n\n\nJuly 5\, 12\, 19\, and 26 \n\n\n\n\n\n\nA four week reading group through selections of Ethics with Javier Carreño.\n\n\n\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Fridays (July 5\, 12\, 19\, and 26) from 12 PM – 1 PM EDT. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Text\n\n\n\nDietrich von Hildebrand offers here the most nuanced version we have of a value-based ethics\, building on the ethics of Max Scheler\, but going far beyond it. On this basis he develops his signature concept of value-response\, wherein a person gives value its due\, along with his signature concept of the transcendence of the person in value-response. He re-thinks virtue theory on the basis of his value philosophy\, and in doing so he places virtue at the center of his ethics long before the revival of virtue theory in Anglo-American thought. \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 is available on the right-hand sidebar. \n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\nJavier Carreño studied Philosophy and English at Dallas\, and Philosophy at Leuven (Belgium)\, where he earned a doctoral degree in 2010. He has written mainly on the imagination and aesthetics – taking Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology as point d’appui. He also maintains an interest in the philosophy of religion\, especially the role of affectivity as a preamble to faith. \n\n\n\nSince 2011\, Dr. Carreño has taught for Franciscan University of Steubenville’s study abroad program located in lower Austria\, where he is an associate professor of philosophy\, and also serve as academic chairman. His teaching comprises both “core” courses in the perennial tradition as well as specialized courses in Literature and Theology. \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\nReading\n\n\n\n\nSession 1 -About Freedom Ch. 21 pp. 299-309\, Ch. 23-25 pp. 317-358\n\n\n\nSession 2 – Sources of Moral Goodness Ch. 27-28 pp.361-412\n\n\n\nSession 3 – Problem of Evil I Ch. 30-32 pp. 429-454 \n\n\n\nSession 4 – Problem of Evil II and Christian Ethics Ch. 33-36 pp. 455-489\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTime:\n\n\n\n12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now
URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/ethics-reading-group-july-2024/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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SUMMARY:Ethics – Part 1
DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\n\n\n\nApril 11\, April 18\, April 25\, May 2\, May 9 \n\n\n\n\n\n\nA four week reading group through selections of Ethics with Javier Carreño.\n\n\n\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Thursdays (April 11\, April 18\, April 25\, May 2\, May 9) from 12 PM – 1 PM EDT. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Text\n\n\n\nDietrich von Hildebrand offers here the most nuanced version we have of a value-based ethics\, building on the ethics of Max Scheler\, but going far beyond it. On this basis he develops his signature concept of value-response\, wherein a person gives value its due\, along with his signature concept of the transcendence of the person in value-response. He re-thinks virtue theory on the basis of his value philosophy\, and in doing so he places virtue at the center of his ethics long before the revival of virtue theory in Anglo-American thought. \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 is available on the right-hand sidebar. \n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\nJavier Carreño studied Philosophy and English at Dallas\, and Philosophy at Leuven (Belgium)\, where he earned a doctoral degree in 2010. He has written mainly on the imagination and aesthetics – taking Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology as point d’appui. He also maintains an interest in the philosophy of religion\, especially the role of affectivity as a preamble to faith. \n\n\n\nSince 2011\, Dr. Carreño has taught for Franciscan University of Steubenville’s study abroad program located in lower Austria\, where he is an associate professor of philosophy\, and also serve as academic chairman. His teaching comprises both “core” courses in the perennial tradition as well as specialized courses in Literature and Theology. \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\nReading\n\n\n\nReading list TBA. Will be sent to participants in advance. \n\n\n\n\n\nTime:\n\n\n\n12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now
URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/ethics-april-2024/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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SUMMARY:The Heart
DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\n\n\n\nJanuary 17\, 24\, 31 \n\n\n\n\nA three-week reading group through The Heart just for clergy with Fr. James Brent\, OP.\n\n\n\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Wednesdays afternoons (January 17\, 24\, 31) from 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET. This group is for clergy and religious\, including those currently in formation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Text\n\n\n\nIn The Heart\, Hildebrand is concerned rehabilitating the affective life of the human person. He thinks that for too long philosophers have held it in suspicion and thought of it as much inferior to the intellect and will\, whereas in reality the heart\, the center of affectivity\, is just important a center of personal life as intellect and will. Hildebrand develops the idea that affectivity\, rather than tending away from an objective relation to things\, is in fact necessary for a fully objective relation to the world. Hildebrand also developed the important idea that the heart is “in many respects is more the real self of the person than his intellect or will.” The second half of The Heart makes the philosophical analysis fruitful for our understanding of the affectivity of the God-Man. Here readers will not only find important contributions to theology and spirituality but also an illuminating re-reading of familiar Scriptural passages. \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 e-mailed to you. \n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFr. James Dominic Brent\, O.P. was born and raised in Michigan. He pursued his undergraduate and graduate studies in Philosophy and completed his doctorate in Philosophy at Saint Louis University on the epistemic status of Christian beliefs according to Saint Thomas Aquinas. He has articles in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Natural Theology in the Oxford Handbook of Thomas Aquinas on “God’s Knowledge and Will”\, and an article on “Thomas Aquinas” in the Oxford Handbook of the Epistemology of Theology. He earned his STL from the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception\, and was ordained a priest in the same year. He taught in the School of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America from 2010- 2014 and spent the year of 2014-2015 doing full-time itinerant preaching on college campuses across the United States. He now teaches full-time at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception. \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\n\nLevel: \n\n\n\nSuitable for those with some philosophy background. \n\n\n\n\n\nReadings:\n\n\n\nWeek 1: Part I\, Ch 1 – 3Week 2: Part 1\, Ch 4 – 8Week 3: Parts 2 & 3 \n\n\n\n\n\nTime:\n\n\n\n2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now
URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/the-heart-reading-group/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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SUMMARY:Liturgy & Personality
DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\n\n\n\nOctober 18\, 25\, and November 1 \n\n\n\n\nA three-week reading group through Liturgy & Personality with Tom Gourlay.\n\n\n\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Wednesdays at 8:30 am ET (8:30 pm Australian Western Standard Time/Philippines Standard Time; 2:30 pm Central European Standard Time). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Text\n\n\n\nA precursor to the “Liturgical Movement” of the twentieth century\, Dietrich von Hildebrand’s Liturgy and Personality is an awe-filled appreciation of Mass and its role in personal formation. Written by a philosopher who had recently converted to Catholicism\, the book awakens us to see with fresh eyes the true beauty of the liturgy. \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 e-mailed to you. \n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTom Gourlay is the National Director of Chaplaincy and Faith Formation\, and a lecturer and PhD candidate in Theology at the University of Notre Dame Australia. \n\n\n\nTom graduated in 2017 with a Masters of Theological Studies from The John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family Studies in Melbourne\, Victoria with a thesis titled\, ‘The Catholic Academy and the Sanctified Mind: The Implications of David L. Schindler’s Critique of Liberal Metaphysics for the Ethos of Catholic Academies.‘ He also holds Bachelors and Masters Degrees in education and a Graduate Certificate in Liberal Arts from the University of Notre Dame Australia. Prior to his work in Chaplaincy\, Tom worked as a classroom teacher and faculty head of Religious Education in Catholic schools in Western Australia. \n\n\n\nTom is an Associated Scholar at the Hildebrand Project\, and in 2012 became the co-founder of the Christopher Dawson Society for Philosophy and Culture (Inc.)\, serving as the society’s inaugural president\, a position he continues to hold. \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 beginner to intermediate: primarily discussion. \n\n\n\n\n\nReadings:\n\n\n\nWeek 1: Intro & Ch. 1-3 Week 2: Ch. 4-7 Week 3: Ch. 8-11 \n\n\n\n\n\nTime:\n\n\n\n\n8:30 pm Australian Western Standard Time/ Philippines Standard Time\n\n\n\n2:30 pm Central European Standard Time\n\n\n\n8:30 am Eastern Standard Time\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now
URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/liturgy-personality-october-2023/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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SUMMARY:An Investigation Concerning the State by Edith Stein
DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\n\n\n\nOctober 11\, 18\, 25\, and November 1 \n\n\n\n\nA four-week reading group through An Investigation Concerning the State by Edith Stein with Dr. William Tullius.\n\n\n\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Wednesdays (October 11\, 18\, 25\, and November 1st) at 7:00 – 8:00 PM ET. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Text\n\n\n\nAny state exists only for the benefit of human beings. This basic tenet of Edith Stein’s political thought rests on her conviction that humanity is fundamentally one community\, precious beyond measure. Differences of race\, culture\, and language offer us means to grasp the values of life uniquely so that we may share them universally\, reaching across all such social boundaries. Stein wrote this treatise in the early days of the Weimar Republic\, shortly after the First World War. It sets forth a philosophy of law\, government\, and administration that is at once idealistic and practical. What is right\, Stein argues\, does not arise from legislation or litigation or politics. Right relations\, as such\, are more basic than any institution. Here\, too\, are Stein’s first serious discussions of religious issues such as quilt\, expiation\, and freedom of conscience. This is the philosophical work that immediately preceded her decision to be baptized on January 1\, 1922. Whether ironically or predictably\, Stein was put to death twenty years later by a state that brazenly defied nearly every principle that she had defended in this treatise. In death she bore personal witness to the unity and dignity of the human race. She perished with her people\, Jews and Christians alike\, at Auschwitz in August 1942. \n\n\n\nIf you purchase your copy here by September 30 and use the code “SUMMER23” at checkout\, you will receive 50% off your purchase. \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 e-mailed to you. \n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWilliam Tullius holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the New School for Social Research and is currently an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at American Public University System. His main areas of research revolve around the development of a phenomenological ethical theory through the study of such phenomenological thinkers as Edmund Husserl\, Max Scheler\, and Edith Stein. He is currently working on a book on Edith Stein’s moral philosophy titled Outlines of Morality: On the Ethical Philosophy of Edith Stein\, which is expected to be published in Spring/Summer 2024 by Lexington Books as part of the series Edith Stein Studies. \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 philosophy students: primarily discussion. \n\n\n\n\n\nReadings:\n\n\n\nWeek 1: Pages 1-37 Week 2: Pages 37-104 Week 3: 104-145Session 4:  147-193 \n\n\n\n\n\nTime:\n\n\n\n7:00 PM – 8:00 PM \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now
URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/edith-stein-reading-group-oct-23/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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SUMMARY:Liturgy & Personality
DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\n\n\n\nOctober 10\, 17\, 24 \n\n\n\n\nA three-week reading group through Liturgy & Personality just for clergy with Dr. Maria Wolter.\n\n\n\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Tuesday afternoons (October 10\, 17\, 24) from 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Text\n\n\n\nA precursor to the “Liturgical Movement” of the twentieth century\, Dietrich von Hildebrand’s Liturgy and Personality is an awe-filled appreciation of Mass and its role in personal formation. Written by a philosopher who had recently converted to Catholicism\, the book awakens us to see with fresh eyes the true beauty of the liturgy. \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 e-mailed to you. \n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Wolter graduated with a B.A. in Philosophy\, Theology\, and History from Franciscan University of Steubenville. She pursued her M.A. in Philosophy\, as well as her STB\, M.A.\, and STL in Theology at the Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven (KUL)\, Belgium\, where she also received her Ph.D. in Philosophy. An Austrian-American national\, she returned to Austria upon receiving her present appointment at Franciscan University of Steubenville at its Study Abroad Program in Gaming\, Austria\, in 2007. \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\n\nLevel: \n\n\n\nSuitable for beginner to intermediate: primarily discussion. \n\n\n\n\n\nReadings:\n\n\n\nWeek 1: Intro & Ch. 1-3 Week 2: Ch. 4-7 Week 3: Ch. 8-11 \n\n\n\n\n\nTime:\n\n\n\n2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now
URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/liturgy-personality-october-2023-for-clergy/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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SUMMARY:The Nature of Love
DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\n\n\n\nOctober 5\, 12\, 19\, 26 \n\n\n\n\nA four-week reading group through The Nature of Love with Derek Jeffreys.\n\n\n\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Thursday evenings (October 5\, 12\, 19\, 26) from 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM ET. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Text\n\n\n\nIn this study on love a new side of Dietrich von Hildebrand’s thought emerges. Hildebrand is here led into areas of personal subjectivity that he did not have the occasion to explore in his ethical writings. In a most original way he shows that the desire to be loved by the person whom one loves has nothing to do with selfishness; he shows that this desire to be loved and so to be united with the other person is itself a kind of self-donation to the other. Thus Hildebrand resists the altruism that claims that one is selfless toward the beloved person only by willing the good of the other in such a way as to be indifferent to being loved in return. On the other hand\, he equally resists the claim that the happiness of the one who loves is the primary motive of love. Hildebrand indicates the radically other-centered direction of love\, while avoiding the pitfall of a depersonalized altruism. Thus he does justice both to the extraordinary self-transcendence of love as well as to subjectivity of love. This work constitutes a major contribution to the Christian personalism that Hildebrand represents. \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 e-mailed to you. \n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\n\nDerek Jeffreys\n\n\n\n\n\nDerek S. Jeffreys is a professor of Humanities\, Religion and Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin\, Green Bay. He did both his B.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. He has written books on St. John Paul II\, ethics and torture\, and ethics and solitary confinement. His most recent book is America’s Jails: The Search for Human Dignity in An Age of Mass Incarceration. Jeffreys teaches courses on love\, Thomas Aquinas\, ethics\, ethics and punishment\, evil\, Dante\, Buddhism\, and other topics. For more than a decade he has been involved in jail and prison education\, giving volunteer religion and philosophy lectures to inmates in Wisconsin’s jails and prisons. He is married and proud father of twin boys. \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 advanced students of philosophy. \n\n\n\n\n\nReadings:\n\n\n\nWeek 1: IntroductionWeek 2: Chapter 1Week 3: Chapter 3Week 4: Chapter 6 \n\n\n\n\n\nTime:\n\n\n\n6:00 PM – 7:00 PM ET \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now
URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/the-nature-of-love-oct-2023/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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SUMMARY:Aesthetics Vol. II
DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\n\n\n\nMay 11\, 18\, 25 and June 1 \n\n\n\n\nA four-week reading group through Aesthetics – Volume II with with Javier Carreño.\n\n\n\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Thursdays (May 11\, 18\, 25 and June 1) from 12:00 PM – 1:00 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\nThe second volume of Hildebrand’s Aesthetics applies his original theory of the beautiful with tremendous depth and attention to many of the world’s most beloved works of art\, including architecture\, sculpture\, painting\, literature\, and music. \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\nJavier Carreño studied Philosophy and English at Dallas\, and Philosophy at Leuven (Belgium)\, where he earned a doctoral degree in 2010. He has written mainly on the imagination and aesthetics – taking Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology as point d’appui. He also maintains an interest in the philosophy of religion\, especially the role of affectivity as a preamble to faith. \n\n\n\nSince 2011\, Dr. Carreño has taught for Franciscan University of Steubenville’s study abroad program located in lower Austria\, where he is an associate professor of philosophy\, and also serve as academic chairman. His teaching comprises both “core” courses in the perennial tradition as well as specialized courses in Literature and Theology. \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\n12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now
URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/aesthetics-vol-ii-may-2023/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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SUMMARY:Aesthetics Vol. I
DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\n\n\n\nApril 13\, 20\, 27\, and May 4 \n\n\n\n\nA four-week reading group through Aesthetics – Volume I with with Javier Carreño.\n\n\n\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Thursdays (April 13\, 20\, 27\, and May 4\, 2023) from 2:00 PM – 3:00 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\nJavier Carreño studied Philosophy and English at Dallas\, and Philosophy at Leuven (Belgium)\, where he earned a doctoral degree in 2010. He has written mainly on the imagination and aesthetics – taking Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology as point d’appui. He also maintains an interest in the philosophy of religion\, especially the role of affectivity as a preamble to faith. \n\n\n\nSince 2011\, Dr. Carreño has taught for Franciscan University of Steubenville’s study abroad program located in lower Austria\, where he is an associate professor of philosophy\, and also serve as academic chairman. His teaching comprises both “core” courses in the perennial tradition as well as specialized courses in Literature and Theology. \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\nSession 1: Pgs. 1–47 \n\n\n\nSession 2: Pgs. 47–73 \n\n\n\nSession 3: Pgs. 75–101 \n\n\n\nSession 4: Pgs. 151–155 and 203–214 \n\n\n\nSession 5: Pgs. 261–281 \n\n\n\n\n\nTime:\n\n\n\n2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now
URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/aesthetics-vol-i-reading-group-2023/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230412T140000
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SUMMARY:The Soul of a Lion
DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\n\n\n\nApril 12\, 19\, 26\, May 3 \n\n\n\n\nA four-week reading group through The Soul of a Lion\, the biography of Dietrich von Hildebrand with with John Crosby.\n\n\n\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Wednesdays (April 12\, 19\, 26\, and May 3\, 2023) from 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT. \n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Text\n\n\n\nDietrich von Hildebrand\, widely regarded as one of the great Catholic philosophers of the 20th century\, is well-known for his numerous books\, but\, until this present work\, not much has been known of his remarkable and inspiring life. Written by his wife\, Alice\, also a highly respected Catholic thinker\, this is a fascinating\, moving\, and\, at times\, gripping account of a truly great man of the Church who suffered much on account of his faith. \n\n\n\nBased on his memoirs—given as a 5\,000 page\, handwritten “letter” Dietrich wrote to his wife late in his life—this biography tells his story from his glorious youth with a unique intellectual and cultural formation\, his conversion to Catholicism\, his great passion for truth and beauty\, his extensive writing on Christian philosophy and theology\, and his steadfast\, determined opposition to Nazism that made him a marked man who miraculously escaped execution. A powerful biography of a relentless fighter against injustice\, a devoted son of the Church\, a man who had the “soul of a lion”. \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\nThis format differs from our more academic reading groups. Whereas those are more discussion-focused\, this group will be centered around a lecture from the leader\, who leads our participants in a focused meditation on the text\, allowing everyone involved the opportunity to wrestle with the thoughts contained here. \n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\nDr. John Crosby was himself a student of Dietrich Hildebrand. Besides writing major studies on the thought of John Henry Newman\, Max Scheler\, and Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II\, and making his own contributions to personalist philosophy\, Dr. Crosby devoted his long and distinguished academic career—first at the University of Dallas\, then at the International Academy of Philosophy\, and finally at Franciscan University of Steubenville\, where he recently retired—to introducing his students to the intellectual legacy of Hildebrand\, and also to making Hildebrand better known in scholarly circles. Dr. Crosby was the translator of the English edition of  Hildebrand’s philosophical masterpiece\, The Nature of Love\, and he also serves as the General Editor of all our present and future translations of Hildebrand’s works. \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 all levels of familiarity with the material. \n\n\n\n\n\nTime:\n\n\n\n2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now
URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/soul-of-a-lion-reading-group/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230405T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230405T210000
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SUMMARY:Transformation in Christ
DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\n\n\n\nApril 5\, 12\, 19\, 26\, and May 3 \n\n\n\n\nA five-week reading group through Transformation in Christ with Catherine Yanko.\n\n\n\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Wednesdays (April 5\, 12\, 19\, 26\, and May 3) from 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Text\n\n\n\nRecognized as a modern spiritual classic and perhaps Dietrich von Hildebrand’s greatest work\, Transformation in Christ is a sublime and practical study\, giving a penetrating analysis of the true path to holiness for those who love Christ. The first requisite is the person’s desire for change\, and with that fundamental attitude in mind\, Hildebrand devotes a chapter to each of the successive spiritual attitudes necessary for those who strive for Christian perfection. The Beatitudes are treated with beauty and depth in an uncompromising challenge to every serious Christian to put into practice these teachings of Christ. \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 e-mailed to you. \n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\nCatherine Yanko is a Graduate Fellow of the Hildebrand Project. Currently she is PhD Student at the Catholic University of America where she studies Moral Theology/Ethics. Her main interests are in theological/philosophical anthropology\, action and virtue theory\, and meta-ethics. She was first introduced to Dietrich von Hildebrand as an undergraduate Student Fellow of the Hildebrand Project; she has continued to study his work\, notably in the development of his concept of reverence in her recently presented paper: “Hildebrandian Reverence for the Defects of Christ: A Thomistic Inquiry of the Reception of Christ’s Salvific Act” at the Thomistic Institute’s conference\, “Thomas Aquinas and the Crisis of Christology”. \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 beginner to intermediate: primarily discussion. \n\n\n\n\n\nReadings:\n\n\n\nSession 1: Chapter 1-Readiness to Change \n\n\n\nSession 2: Chapter 6-Recollection and Contemplation \n\n\n\nSession 3: Chapter 7- Humility \n\n\n\nSession 4: Chapter 8- Confidence in God \n\n\n\nSession 5: Chapters 9 & 18 – Striving for Perfection\, and True Surrender to Self \n\n\n\n\n\nTime:\n\n\n\n8:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now
URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/transformation-in-christ-reading-group/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230309T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230309T130000
DTSTAMP:20230222T201335Z
CREATED:20230222T195249Z
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SUMMARY:What is Philosophy?
DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\n\n\n\nMarch 9\, 16\, 23\, 30 \n\n\n\n\nA four-week reading group through What is Philosophy? with with Javier Carreño.\n\n\n\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Thursdays (March 9\, 16\, 23\, 30) from 12:00 PM – 1:00 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\nJavier Carreño studied Philosophy and English at Dallas\, and Philosophy at Leuven (Belgium)\, where he earned a doctoral degree in 2010. He has written mainly on the imagination and aesthetics – taking Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology as point d’appui. He also maintains an interest in the philosophy of religion\, especially the role of affectivity as a preamble to faith. \n\n\n\nSince 2011\, Dr. Carreño has taught for Franciscan University of Steubenville’s study abroad program located in lower Austria\, where he is an associate professor of philosophy\, and also serve as academic chairman. His teaching comprises both “core” courses in the perennial tradition as well as specialized courses in Literature and Theology. \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\n12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now
URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/what-is-philosophy-reading-group-2023/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230307T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230307T130000
DTSTAMP:20230222T201338Z
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UID:2085-1678190400-1678194000@hildebrandproject.org
SUMMARY:The Privilege of Being a Woman
DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\n\n\n\nMarch 7\, April 4\, and May 2 \n\n\n\n\nThe first in a new format of reading groups\, on Alice von Hildebrand’s The Privilege of Being a Woman with with Maria Fedoryka.\n\n\n\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Tuesdays (March 7\, April 4\, and May 2) from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT. \n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Text\n\n\n\nIn The Privilege of Being a Woman\, Alice von Hildebrand examines the claims of radical feminists like Simone de Beauvoir. She counterposes these claims against the example of the Virgin Mary to reveal what she calls the feminine gifts of purity\, receptivity\, and life-giving nurturing. \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\nThis format differs from our more academic reading groups. Whereas those are more discussion-focused\, this group will be centered around a lecture from the leader\, who leads our participants in a focused meditation on the text\, allowing everyone involved the opportunity to wrestle with the thoughts contained here. \n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\nDr. Maria Fedoryka lectures and publishes in both academic and popular fora in the field of the philosophy of love\, examining issues spanning from the centrality of love in the being of God\, to its role at the center of creation\, to its meaning for marriage\, family\, and sexuality. Having been captivated by the writings of Dietrich von Hildebrand as a teenager and deeply drawn to his phenomenological and personalist philosophy\, she pursued her studies under Josef Seifert and John Crosby at the International Academy of Philosophy.  \n\n\n\nAmong her scholarly writings are an analysis of Dietrich von Hildebrand’s philosophy of marital intimacy and procreation titled Finis superabundant Operis: Refining an Ancient Cause for Understanding the Spousal Act in the ACPQ\, and “‘God is Love’”: Personal Plurality as the Completion of Aristotle’s Notion of Substance and Love as the Absolute Ground of the Divine Being” in the Proceedings of the ACPA. Among her popular publications are the booklet The Special Gift of Women for God\, the Family and the World published by the Catholic Truth Society in England. She is currently working on an article comparing Hildebrand’s and Aquinas’s philosophy of affectivity\, as well as an article on Hildebrand’s theory of motivation as the key to understanding deliberate moral wrongdoing. \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 beginners. \n\n\n\n\n\nReadings: \n\n\n\nSession 1: Parts 1–2Session 2: Parts 3–5Session 3: Parts 6–9 \n\n\n\n\n\nTime:\n\n\n\n12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now
URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/the-privilege-of-being-a-woman-reading-group/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230302T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230302T210000
DTSTAMP:20230222T195255Z
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UID:2082-1677787200-1677790800@hildebrandproject.org
SUMMARY:The Nature of Love
DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\n\n\n\nMarch 2\, 9\, 16\, and 23 \n\n\n\n\nA four-week reading group through The Nature of Love with Derek Jeffreys.\n\n\n\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Thursday evenings (March 2\, 9\, 16\, and 23) from 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Text\n\n\n\nIn this study on love a new side of Dietrich von Hildebrand’s thought emerges. Hildebrand is here led into areas of personal subjectivity that he did not have the occasion to explore in his ethical writings. In a most original way he shows that the desire to be loved by the person whom one loves has nothing to do with selfishness; he shows that this desire to be loved and so to be united with the other person is itself a kind of self-donation to the other. Thus Hildebrand resists the altruism that claims that one is selfless toward the beloved person only by willing the good of the other in such a way as to be indifferent to being loved in return. On the other hand\, he equally resists the claim that the happiness of the one who loves is the primary motive of love. Hildebrand indicates the radically other-centered direction of love\, while avoiding the pitfall of a depersonalized altruism. Thus he does justice both to the extraordinary self-transcendence of love as well as to subjectivity of love. This work constitutes a major contribution to the Christian personalism that Hildebrand represents. \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 e-mailed to you. \n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\nDerek S. Jeffreys is a professor of Humanities\, Religion and Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin\, Green Bay. He did both his B.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. He has written books on St. John Paul II\, ethics and torture\, and ethics and solitary confinement. His most recent book is America’s Jails: The Search for Human Dignity in An Age of Mass Incarceration. Jeffreys teaches courses on love\, Thomas Aquinas\, ethics\, ethics and punishment\, evil\, Dante\, Buddhism\, and other topics. For more than a decade he has been involved in jail and prison education\, giving volunteer religion and philosophy lectures to inmates in Wisconsin’s jails and prisons. He is married and proud father of twin boys. \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 advanced students of philosophy. \n\n\n\n\n\nReadings:\n\n\n\nWeek 1: Introduction Week 2: Chapter 1Week 3: Chapter 3Week 4: Chapter 6  \n\n\n\n\n\nTime:\n\n\n\n8:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now
URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/the-nature-of-love-reading-group/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230301T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230301T210000
DTSTAMP:20230222T195259Z
CREATED:20230222T195258Z
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SUMMARY:Jaws of Death: Gate of Heaven
DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\n\n\n\nMarch 1\, 8\, 15\, and 22 \n\n\n\n\nA four-week reading group through Jaws of Death: Gate of Heaven with Catherine Yanko.\n\n\n\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Wednesday evenings (March 1\, 8\, 15\, and 22) from 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Text\n\n\n\nAlthough death never loses its character as a punishment for sin\, its fearful darkness can be pierced by the radiant light of faith—faith in God\, in eternal life\, in the resurrection of the body\, and in the certainty of reunion with our beloved dead—a reunion that will know no sunset. Because the jaws of death can be our gate to Heaven\, the radiant aspect of death finally triumphs as the light of Christ dissipates the fearful dark clouds spread by death. \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 e-mailed to you. \n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\nCatherine Yanko is a Graduate Fellow of the Hildebrand Project. Currently she is PhD Student at the Catholic University of America where she studies Moral Theology/Ethics. Her main interests are in theological/philosophical anthropology\, action and virtue theory\, and meta-ethics. She was first introduced to Dietrich von Hildebrand as an undergraduate Student Fellow of the Hildebrand Project; she has continued to study his work\, notably in the development of his concept of reverence in her recently presented paper: “Hildebrandian Reverence for the Defects of Christ: A Thomistic Inquiry of the Reception of Christ’s Salvific Act” at the Thomistic Institute’s conference\, “Thomas Aquinas and the Crisis of Christology”. \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 beginner to intermediate: primarily discussion. \n\n\n\n\n\nReadings:\n\n\n\nWeek 1: Pages 3-24 Week 2: Pages 25-51Week 3: Pages 55-68Week 4: Pages 69-110  \n\n\n\n\n\nTime:\n\n\n\n8:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now
URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/jaws-of-death-reading-group/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230124T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230124T210000
DTSTAMP:20230111T195448Z
CREATED:20230110T183500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230111T195448Z
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SUMMARY:Liturgy & Personality
DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\n\n\n\nJanuary 24\, 31\, and February 7 \n\n\n\n\nA three-week reading group through Liturgy & Personality with Catherine Yanko.\n\n\n\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Tuesday evenings (January 24\, 31\, and February 7) from 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Text\n\n\n\nA precursor to the “Liturgical Movement” of the twentieth century\, Dietrich von Hildebrand’s Liturgy and Personality is an awe-filled appreciation of Mass and its role in personal formation. Written by a philosopher who had recently converted to Catholicism\, the book awakens us to see with fresh eyes the true beauty of the liturgy. \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 e-mailed to you. \n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\nCatherine Yanko is a Graduate Fellow of the Hildebrand Project. Currently she is PhD Student at the Catholic University of America where she studies Moral Theology/Ethics. Her main interests are in theological/philosophical anthropology\, action and virtue theory\, and meta-ethics. She was first introduced to Dietrich von Hildebrand as an undergraduate Student Fellow of the Hildebrand Project; she has continued to study his work\, notably in the development of his concept of reverence in her recently presented paper: “Hildebrandian Reverence for the Defects of Christ: A Thomistic Inquiry of the Reception of Christ’s Salvific Act” at the Thomistic Institute’s conference\, “Thomas Aquinas and the Crisis of Christology”. \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 beginner to intermediate: primarily discussion. \n\n\n\n\n\nReadings:\n\n\n\nWeek 1: Intro & Ch. 1-3 Week 2: Ch. 4-7 Week 3: Ch. 8-11 \n\n\n\n\n\nTime:\n\n\n\n8:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now
URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/liturgy-and-personality/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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UID:1537-1658239200-1660057200@hildebrandproject.org
SUMMARY:Art of Living
DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\n\n\n\nJuly 19\, July 26\, Aug 2\, & Aug 9\, 2022 \n\n\n\n\n\n\nA four week reading group through The Art of Living with Catherine Yanko.\n\n\n\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Tuesday afternoons (July 19\, July 26\, Aug 2\, & Aug 9\, 2022 )from 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Text\n\n\n\nA book of everyday ethics by a man whom Pope St. John Paul II called “one of the great ethicists of the twentieth century\,” The Art of Living is Dietrich von Hildebrand’s essential guide to the moral life. \n\n\n\nIn just over one hundred pages\, Dietrich von Hildebrand\, with his wife Alice\, presents a distinctive view of the virtuous life that begins with reverence\, “the mother of all virtues\,” and includes chapters on “Faithfulness\,” “Goodness\,” “Hope\,” “The Human Heart\,” and many others. \n\n\n\nThe essays that make up this book began as a popular series of radio lectures in 1930s Germany\, and their conversational tone comes through in this new edition\, which maintains Alice von Hildebrand’s original translation\, and updates this beloved work for a new generation of readers. \n\n\n\nThe Art of Living promises to provide clarity\, hope\, and fresh insights for those seeking to live life more fully\, faithfully\, and beautifully. \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 is available below. \n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\nCatherine Yanko is a Graduate Fellow of the Hildebrand Project. Currently she is PhD Student at the Catholic University of America where she studies Moral Theology/Ethics. Her main interests are in theological/philosophical anthropology\, action and virtue theory\, and meta-ethics. She was first introduced to Dietrich von Hildebrand as an undergraduate Student Fellow of the Hildebrand Project; she has continued to study his work\, notably in the development of his concept of reverence in her recently presented paper: “Hildebrandian Reverence for the Defects of Christ: A Thomistic Inquiry of the Reception of Christ’s Salvific Act” at the Thomistic Institute’s conference\, “Thomas Aquinas and the Crisis of Christology”. \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\nReading\n\n\n\nWeek 1: Chap. 1Week 2: Chap. 2 – 4Week 3: Chap. 5 – 7Week 4: Chap. 8 – 9*All from The Art of Living \n\n\n\n\n\nLevel: \n\n\n\nSuitable for beginner to intermediate: primarily discussion. \n\n\n\n\n\nTime:\n\n\n\n2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now
URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/art-of-living-2/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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UID:1599-1657742400-1659560400@hildebrandproject.org
SUMMARY:Personalism of John Paul II
DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\n\n\n\nJuly 13\, July 20\, July 27\, & Aug 3\, 2022 \n\n\n\n\n\n\nA four week reading group through The Personalism of John Paul II with Catherine Yanko.\n\n\n\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Wednesday evenings (July 13\, July 20\, July 27\, & Aug 3\, 2022) from 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Text\n\n\n\nI wrote this little book twenty years ago as an introduction to the main themes in St. John Paul II’s personalism. I reissue it today in the conviction that his personalism is needed now no less than it was then. Many are the depersonalizing forces that beset us today. We continue to see in our time what St. John Paul called the “pulverization of the person.” And yet\, at the same time\, we continue to see signs of a growing personalist sensibility. Deep down most of us know that persons merit respect and should not be manipulated and commodified and demonized. Even when we are complicit in some such abuse of persons\, we know better. Our better self revives when we are rebuked. And so we need to fan the flames of a certain sense for the person that has not been extinguished in the men and women of our time. We need to hear a prophetic voice that calls us back to the “truth about man” that is still felt in our conscience. John Paul II is just the voice we need to hear. John F. Crosby\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 is available below. \n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\nCatherine Yanko is a Graduate Fellow of the Hildebrand Project. Currently she is PhD Student at the Catholic University of America where she studies Moral Theology/Ethics. Her main interests are in theological/philosophical anthropology\, action and virtue theory\, and meta-ethics. She was first introduced to Dietrich von Hildebrand as an undergraduate Student Fellow of the Hildebrand Project; she has continued to study his work\, notably in the development of his concept of reverence in her recently presented paper: “Hildebrandian Reverence for the Defects of Christ: A Thomistic Inquiry of the Reception of Christ’s Salvific Act” at the Thomistic Institute’s conference\, “Thomas Aquinas and the Crisis of Christology”. \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\nReading\n\n\n\nWeek 1: Chap. 1 & “What is Personalism?”Week 2: Chap. 2 – 4Week 3: Chap. 5 – 7Week 4: Chap. 8 – 10*All from The Personalism of John Paul II \n\n\n\n\n\nLevel: \n\n\n\nSuitable for beginner to intermediate: primarily discussion. \n\n\n\n\n\nTime:\n\n\n\n8:00 PM – 9:00 PM ET \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now
URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/personalism-of-john-paul-ii/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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