BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Hildebrand Project - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Hildebrand Project X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hildebrandproject.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Hildebrand Project REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240714T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240719T080000 DTSTAMP:20260530T224815 CREATED:20240105T200439Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240717T151457Z UID:4184-1720976400-1721376000@hildebrandproject.org SUMMARY:The Challenge of Community DESCRIPTION:14th Annual Summer SeminarJuly 15-19\, 2024Franciscan University of Steubenville\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe human person only finds the fulfillment of his nature in spiritual contact with other persons\, in union with them—in short: in community. \n\n\n\nDietrich von Hildebrand\, The Metaphysics of Community \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImportant Updates\n\n\n\nThanks to the extraordinary generosity of our donors\, we have been able to substantially reduce the fees for both Students and Professionals attending the Summer Seminar. \n\n\n\nThe deadline to apply is April 5. \n\n\n\n\nStudent: $650 $400\n\n\n\nProfessional (with dormitory housing): $1\,650 $1000\n\n\n\nProfessional (without dormitory housing): $1\,250 $800\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSeminar Description\n\n\n\nWhy are people connected with each other as never before\, even as they suffer from crushing loneliness? Why do people have a deep need to be sheltered inside a community but feel condemned to remain outside of all deeper solidarity with others? Or if they do belong to a community\, why is it that they can put down roots in it only by taking other communities as enemies? Why do people find it so easy and natural to approach others with mistrust\, and have a great difficulty approaching them with trust? \n\n\n\nThe great Christian personalists have something to say about these contradictions; we find in their works much wisdom about the brokenness of our life with others. \n\n\n\nDietrich von Hildebrand wrote a major philosophical treatise\, The Metaphysics of Community\, in response to the earlier crisis about the nature of the person and community in National Socialism and Communism. His personalism leads to a strong affirmation of the selfhood and solitude of the individual person\, but also to an equally strong affirmation of the deep orientation of persons to interpersonal relationships and community. We also find in Karol Wojtyla\, Max Scheler\, Edith Stein\, Romano Guardini\, Henri de Lubac\, and other personalists rich and nuanced accounts of the communal nature of the person\, accounts that speak to us in our need. \n\n\n\nDownload the flyer for the event here: Summer Seminar 2024 Flyer (pdf) \n\n\n\nWe will offer a portion of the Summer Seminar online this year without cost. If you are interested in attending our online offerings\, please fill out the following form. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOnline Summer seminar reminder\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSeminar Faculty and Speakers\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n John F. Crosby \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Academic AdvisorMark K. Spencer \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Spanish Association of PersonalismJuan Manuel Burgos \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Maria Fedoryka \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Pastor\, Bruderhof CommunitiesCharles E. Moore \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n TrusteeRabbi Mark Gottlieb \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Associated ScholarDerek S. Jefferys \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Houghton UniversityDr. Peter Meilaender \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n American Public UniversityWilliam Tullius \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n John F. Crosby\n\n \n\n\n\nFranciscan University of Steubenville \n\n\n\nProfessor Emeritus of Philosophy \n\n\n\nResearch Areas: \n\n\n\nPersonalism\, John Henry Newman\, John Paul II\, Dietrich von Hildebrand \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nProf. 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\, Prof. Crosby has devoted his long and distinguished academic career—first at the University of Dallas\, then at the International Academy of Philosophy\, and currently at Franciscan University of Steubenville—to introducing his students to the intellectual legacy of Hildebrand\, and also to making Hildebrand better known in scholarly circles. Prof. 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Academic AdvisorMark K. Spencer\nUniversity of St Thomas\, MN Professor of Philosophy \n\n\n\nResearch Areas: Philosophical Anthropology\, Aesthetics\, Metaphysics\, Philosophical Theology \n\n\n\nDr. Mark K. Spencer\, Ph.D. is a Professor of philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. Spencer fell in love with philosophy in high school when he first encountered the writings of Albert Camus and St. Thomas Aquinas. He earned his Ph.D. from the University at Buffalo\, and his M.A. and B.A. from Franciscan University of Steubenville\, where he first encountered the work of Dietrich von Hildebrand. He is the author of 2 books and over 60 papers and reviews\, mostly focusing on the nature of the human person\, beauty\, and God’s relations to us. In his research\, he above all tries to synthesize many traditions’ approaches to these topics\, drawing on the scholastic\, phenomenological\, analytic\, and Greek Patristic traditions. Among the things he takes greatest delight in is introducing students to the insights of these traditions\, so as to help them better perceive and contemplate reality\, for which he finds the work of von Hildebrand an indispensable guide. He lives in St. Paul\, Minnesota\, with his wife\, Susanna\, and their four children. Together\, they especially enjoy hiking\, camping\, reading novels\, watching films\, gardening\, and homeschooling. \n\n\n\n\nMore about Dr. Mark Spencer\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSelect Bibliography\n“Created Persons are Subsistent Relations: A Scholastic-Phenomenological Synthesis.” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 89\, Analyzing Catholic Philosophy (2015): 225-243. \n\n\n\n“Aristotelian Substance and Personalistic Subjectivity.” International Philosophical Quarterly 55:2 (June 2015): 145-164. \n\n\n\n“Divine Causality and Created Freedom: A Thomistic Personalist View.” Nova et Vetera 14:3 (Summer 2016): 375-419. \n\n\n\n“The Many Powers of the Human Soul: Von Hildebrand’s Contribution to Scholastic Philosophical Anthropology\,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 91:4\, Special Issue on Dietrich Von Hildebrand (Fall 2017): 719-735. \n\n\n\n“Perceiving the Image of God in the Whole Human Person\,” The Saint Anselm Journal 13:2 (Spring 2018): 1-18. \n\n\n\n“Sense Perception and the Flourishing of the Human Person in von Hildebrand and the Aristotelian Traditions\,” Tópicos\, Revista de Filosofía 56 (2019): 95-118. \n\n\n\n“Beauty and Being in von Hildebrand and the Aristotelian Tradition\,” The Review of Metaphysics 73:2 (December 2019): 311-334. \n\n\n\n“Covenantal Metaphysics and Cosmological Metaphysics: An Aesthetic Critique and an Aesthetic Synthesis”\, The Saint Anselm Journal 15:2 (Spring 2020): forthcoming. \n\n\n\n“Beauty and the Intellectual Virtues in Aristotle\,” in Beauty and the Good: Past Interpretations and Their Contemporary Relevance ed. Alice Ramos\, (Washington: The Catholic University of America Press\, 2020). \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Spanish Association of PersonalismJuan Manuel Burgos\nJuan Manuel Burgos is an internationally recognized philosopher. He is the founder and president of the Spanish Association of Personalism (www.personalismo.org)\, of the Ibero-American Association of Personalism\, and of the journal Quién: Revista de Filosofía Personalista. He is also the Director of the Online Master of Personalistic Anthropology at the Distance University of Madrid (UDIMA) and a Full Professor at the Villanueva University (Madrid). He has two doctorates: the first in Astrophysics from the University of Barcelona\, and the other in Philosophy from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross (Santa Croce) in Rome.  \n\n\n\nHe has published many articles and books on personalism\, including An Introduction to Personalism\, Personalist Anthropology: A Philosophical Guide to Life\, and most recently\, Personalism and Metaphysics: Is Personalism A First Philosophy?       \n\n\n\nHis works have been translated into English\, Polish\, and Portuguese and he has been a guest professor\, giving courses and conferences at universities in the US\, Europe\, and Latin America. \n\n\n\nHe has received the Anahuac University Medal in Humanities (Mexico) in 2015\, the Ángel Herrera Humanities Research Award (2015) and is a member of the scientific committee of journals in several countries. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Maria Fedoryka\nAve Maria UniversityAssociate Professor of Philosophy \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\nSelect Bibliography\n“A Comparison of Aquinas on the Passions and Affectiones and Hildebrand on ‘Genuinely Spiritual Affectivity’”. Paper delivered at Colloquium on the Heart sponsored by the Hildebrand Legacy Project. University of Dallas\, February 2020 \n\n\n\n“Is Moral Evil Only Privation? Another Look”. Paper delivered at The True\, the Good\, and the Beautiful – and the Encounter with Evil Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Annual Convention. Montreal\, Quebec\, September 2019 \n\n\n\nForthcoming: “Does Gender Matter for Marriage? The Centrality of Masculinity and Femininity to Marriage as Mutual Self-Gift in the Theology of the Body” in Dutch Communio\, proceedings of the 5th International Theology of the Body Symposium\, Kerkrade: 2019 \n\n\n\nBook review for Review of Metaphysics of Dietrich von Hildebrand’s Graven Images \n\n\n\n“‘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 Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 2019 \n\n\n\n“Human Sexuality: The Battle for the Human Soul” in Mary and the Crisis in the Church\, ed. Roger Nutt. Sapientia Press: 2019 \n\n\n\n“Von Hildebrand\, Love and Contraception”\, in Humana Vitae\, 50 Years Later: Embracing God’s Vision for Marriage\, Love\, and Life\, ed. Theresa Notare. CUA Press: 2019 \n\n\n\n“Only Union Plus Love Equals Fruitfulness: A Personalist Reflects on the Teaching of Humanae Vitae” in Why Humanae Vitae is Still Right\, ed. Janet Smith. Ignatius Press: 2018 \n\n\n\n“Finis Superabundant Operis: Refining an Ancient Cause for Explaining the Conjugal Act” in American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly\, Vol. 90\, no. 3\, 2016\, 477-498 \n\n\n\nThe Special Vocation of Women: for God the family and the World\, Catholic Truth Society Publications\, United Kingdom: 2010 \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Pastor\, Bruderhof CommunitiesCharles E. Moore\nCharles Moore is a member of the Bruderhof community\, an international Christian community movement that in the spirit of the early Christians shares all things in common. He is a pastor\, editor and author for Plough Publishing\, and currently teaches spiritual formation at Duke Divinity School. Charles is on the advisory board for the Nurturing Communities Network\, a national network of intentional Christian communities. Among his many published works is: Called to Community: The Life Jesus Wants for His Disciples. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n TrusteeRabbi Mark Gottlieb\n\n\nRabbi Mark Gottlieb is Senior Director of the Tikvah Fund and founding Dean of the Tikvah Institute for High School Students at Yale University. Prior to joining Tikvah\, Rabbi Gottlieb served as Head of School at Yeshiva University High School for Boys and Principal of the Maimonides School in Brookline\, MA and has taught at The Frisch School\, Ida Crown Jewish Academy\, Hebrew Theological College\, Loyola University in Chicago\, and the University of Chicago. He received his B.A. from Yeshiva College\, rabbinical ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary\, and an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago\, where his doctoral studies focused on the moral and political thought of Alasdair MacIntyre. Rabbi Gottlieb is a member of the Orthodox Forum Steering Committee and serves on the Editorial Committee of Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought. In addition to his contributions to Jewish theology\, Rabbi Gottlieb has written on the thought of C.S. Lewis\, G.K. Chesterton\, and John Paul II\, and is especially interested in the relationship between Jewish and Christian forms of personalism. He lives in Teaneck\, NJ with his wife and five children. \n\n\n\n\n\nTikvah Fund \n\n\n\nSenior Director \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Associated ScholarDerek S. Jefferys\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\nUniversity of Wisconsin\, Green Bay \n\n\n\nProfessor \n\n\n\nResearch Areas: \n\n\n\nPersonalism\, Personalism and Violence\, Personalism and Incarceration \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSelect Bibliography\nJeffreys\, Derek S. Defending Human Dignity: John Paul II and Political Realism . Grand\, Rapids\, MI: Brazos Press\, 2004. \n\n\n\nJeffreys\, Derek S. Spirituality and the Ethics of Torture. New York\, NY: Palgrave Macmillan\, 2009. \n\n\n\nJeffreys\, Derek S. Spirituality in Dark Places: The Ethics of Solitary Confinement. New York\, NY: Palgrave Macmillan\, 2013. \n\n\n\nJeffreys\, Derek S. America’s Jails: The Search for Human Dignity in an Age of Mass Incarceration. New York\, NY: New York University Press\, 2018. \n\n\n\nJeffreys\, Derek S. “Personalists are not Kantians: Robert Kraynak and the Value of the Person\,” Journal of Markets and Morality 7\, no. 2 (October 2004): 507-516. \n\n\n\nJeffreys\, Derek S. “Ignoring Thomistic Metaphysics: A Reply to Robert Kraynak\,” Journal of Markets and Morality 7\, no. 2 (October 2004): 527-531. \n\n\n\nJeffreys\, Derek S. “Cruel but not Unusual: Derek Jeffreys on Solitary Confinement\,” Commonweal\, June 13\, 2014: 20-23. \n\n\n\nJeffreys\, Derek S. C-Span Book Interview on Spirituality in Dark Places: The Ethics of Solitary Confinement\, September 23\, 2014. \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Houghton UniversityDr. Peter Meilaender\nFor the past 23 years I have taught at Houghton University in Houghton\, NY\, where I am Professor of Political Science and Dean of Religion\, Humanities\, and Global Studies. My degree is in political theory and much of my work has been in politics and literature\, especially in the areas of Swiss and Austrian Studies. My wife is German and we have five children\, the oldest in law school\, the youngest preparing to start ninth grade. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n American Public UniversityWilliam Tullius\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. 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFormat\n\n\n\nThe seminar will be a mix of lectures\, panels\, conversations\, and small group discussions. \n\n\n\nEach morning will open with a keynote lecture on a core topic\, followed by panel discussions exploring particular themes. After a break for mass (optional) and lunch\, the afternoons will be devoted to In Conversation sessions that will address questions and challenges\, followed by small group discussions facilitated by seminar faculty. \n\n\n\nHildebrand Project events are intellectual and convivial. Participants are sent a list of reading materials upon acceptance\, which should be completed before the start of the seminar. The days are devoted to seminar sessions\, while the evenings are free—and often filled with wine\, music\, and conversation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSchedule\n\n\n\nThe seminar will begin with an opening dinner on July 14. Participants will depart the morning of July 19. \n\n\n\nKeynotes are at 9:15am EDT\, panels are at 10:45am EDT\, and the Conversations are at 2:00pm EDT. You can watch the stream on our YouTube Channel. Please subscribe to be notified when we go live. The stream will also pop-up here on the website. \n\n\n\nJuly 15: Beyond Individualism\n\n\n\n\nKeynote: Persons are Meant for Community with Mark K. Spencer\n\n\n\nPanel: Communities in Crisis with Charles Moore\, Maria Fedoryka\, and Derek Jeffreys\n\n\n\nConversation: Intentional Communities in Religious Traditions with Rabbi Mark Gottlieb and Charles Moore\n\n\n\n\nJuly 16: From Collectivism to Solidarity\n\n\n\n\nKeynote: Beyond Individualism & Collectivism – Toward a Personalist Social Philosophy with John F. Crosby\n\n\n\nPanel: Community & Human Flourishing with Charles Moore and Maria Fedoryka\n\n\n\nConversation: Structures of Sin – Solidarity & Co-Responsibility in John Paul II with John F. Crosby and Derek Jeffreys\n\n\n\n\nJuly 17: Building Authentic Community\n\n\n\n\nKeynote: Dietrich von Hildebrand on the Nature of Community with Maria Fedoryka\n\n\n\nPanel: Balancing Local Commitments & Cosmopolitan Principles with Mark Spencer\, Derek Jeffreys\, and William Tullius\n\n\n\nConversation: Personalism and Integralism with Mark Spencer\, John Henry Crosby\, and Peter Meilaender\n\n\n\n\nJuly 18: A Vision for Community\n\n\n\n\nKeynote: Karol Wojtyla on Community by Juan Manuel Burgos\n\n\n\nPanel: How to Know a Person – Practical Tips for Being Communal with John F. Crosby\, William Tullius\, and Derek Jeffreys\n\n\n\nConversation: The Metaphysics of Community with Seminar Faculty\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe will offer a portion of the Summer Seminar online this year without cost. If you are interested in attending our online offerings\, please fill out the following form. \n\n\n\n\nOnline Summer seminar Registration\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nApplying for the Seminar\n\n\n\nThe seminar is open to anyone who wishes to explore the nature and significance of the self\, community\, and society\, including especially: \n\n\n\n\nUndergraduate and graduate students\n\n\n\nUniversity and high school professors \n\n\n\nArtists\, writers\, musicians\, and architects \n\n\n\nTeachers\, educators\, and administrators \n\n\n\nLawyers\, government officials\, and community organizers\n\n\n\nSeminarians and clergy \n\n\n\n\nThe application process is based on interest but subject to space limitations.The application and nomination window ends on April 5\, 2024. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis\, with acceptances announced on the 15th of each month. \n\n\n\nYou may apply online below. The application contains two short essays (300 words max)\, and you will add your answers there: \n\n\n\n(1) How do you expect the Hildebrand Seminar to affect your life and work when you return home?(2) Read this excerpt from the essay “Individual and Community” (from My Battle Against Hitler) and comment on the relationship between anti-personalism and individualistic liberalism. \n\n\n\nWe encourage faculty to nominate students to attend. Nominations will serve in lieu of letters of recommendation. Please use this form to submit nominations. \n\n\n\nIf you have any questions about the event\, please reach out to Cecilia Cervantes at events@hildebrandproject.org. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSeminar Fee\n\n\n\nWe believe that the Seminar fee should cover everything from the moment you arrive to the moment you leave. The Hildebrand Project Summer Seminar fee covers:  \n\n\n\n\nFive nights in a private room in Franciscan University dormitory housing.\n\n\n\nTransportation to and from Pittsburgh airport\, for those flying in.\n\n\n\nContinental breakfast\, lunch\, and dinner every day of the seminar\, including opening and closing banquets. Snacks and drinks are also provided throughout the day.\n\n\n\nEvening receptions with snacks and beverages.\n\n\n\nA printed seminar reader with readings chosen by our speakers and organizers to deepen your seminar experience. \n\n\n\nFull access to the John Paul II Library at Franciscan University.\n\n\n\nAccess to a fitness center\n\n\n\nInternet Access\n\n\n\n\nThe Summer Seminar fees are: \n\n\n\n\nStudents (enrolled as of application deadline): $650 $400\n\n\n\nProfessionals (All non-students)\n\nWith dormitory housing: $1\,650 $1000\n\n\n\nWithout dormitory housing: $1\,250 $800 (You must organize your housing. The Franciscan Square Inn will have a special Summer Seminar rate.)\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTravel is not covered by the seminar fee\, but transportation to and from Pittsburgh International Airport will be provided to anyone who needs it. \n\n\n\nWhile the true cost to host each participant is much higher than the fees\, the fees play a critical role in making our annual Summer Seminar possible. Attendees are asked to pursue all possible funding sources (e.g. university departments\, family\, friends\, outside grants\, fundraisers\, etc.) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload the flyer for the event here: Summer Seminar 2024 Flyer (pdf) URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/the-challenge-of-community-seminar/ CATEGORIES:Summer Seminar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hildebrandproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/The_haymaking_by_Pieter_Bruegel_I.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230626T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230701T080000 DTSTAMP:20260530T224815 CREATED:20230113T212606Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230623T131241Z UID:1968-1687798800-1688198400@hildebrandproject.org SUMMARY:Gratitude DESCRIPTION:13th Annual Summer SeminarJune 26-30\, 2023Franciscan University of Steubenville\n \n \n\n\n\n\n \n\nThe person who is filled with gratitude toward God is also the only person who is truly awake. \nDietrich von Hildebrand\, Gratitude \n\n \n\n \nSeminar Description\n \nIn this seminar we will explore gratitude as a fundamental moral disposition without which no one can really be happy.   \n \nWe are made for gratitude because we are creatures\, owing gratitude to our creator for our very existence. We either accept ourselves\, our own created being\, in gratitude or we reject it in resentment both of ourselves and of reality.  \n \nGratitude precludes proclamations to absolute autonomy and rejects the Promethean aspiration to complete self-creation\, to become ourselves like gods.  \n \nInfluential philosophical errors both old and new are marked particularly by their hostility toward gratitude. Marx’s charge to remake the world. Nietzsche’s will to power. The modernist’s self-made man. Transhumanist fantasies for worldly immortality.  \n \nOur culture today is fraught by questions about gratitude. How do we receive in gratitude the goods of our own traditions despite their evils\, of which we are increasingly aware? Can we cultivate gratitude in a social-media world of envy\, isolation\, and self-assertion? Why should we be grateful in the midst of great suffering? \n \nIn this seminar\, we will attempt to answer these questions and to offer gratitude as an antidote to other challenges\, such as feelings of loneliness\, resentment\, envy\, and the self-hatred that oppresses so many today. We will show how gratitude guards against despair\, and resists the nihilist attitude that fails to see the value of anything.  \n \nUltimately\, we will propose gratitude as an essential condition of human happiness and human flourishing.  In so doing\, we will explore the relations between gratitude and contemplation\, stewardship\, and material creation; between gratitude and wonder\, creativity\, and invention; between gratitude and beauty\, hope\, and joy; and between gratitude\, self-love\, and the love of God.  \n \nWe will draw on ideas in Sts. Augustine and Aquinas\, Søren Kierkegaard\, Romano Guardini\, Joseph Pieper\, Popes Benedict XVI and John Paul II\, Dietrich and Alice von Hildebrand\, Gabriel Marcel\, Max Scheler\, Roger Scruton\, Russell Kirk\, and many others. We will also draw on artistic expressions of gratitude\, notably in poetry (e.g.\, Gerard Manley Hopkins) and music (e.g. Schubert). \n \n\n \n\n \n\n \nSeminar Faculty\n \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chairman of the BoardJonathan J. Sanford \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speaker (via Zoom)Eleonore Stump \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n John F. Crosby \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Poet and AuthorJames Matthew Wilson \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Academic AdvisorMark K. Spencer \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Franciscan University of SteubenvillePatrick Lee \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Franciscan University of SteubenvilleMatthew Shea \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Franciscan University of SteubenvilleBrandon Dahm \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SpeakerRachel Bulman \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Associated ScholarJames Beauregard \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CatholicPsychDr. Gregory Bottaro \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Special Programs AdvisorAmanda Achtman \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Vice President & PublisherChristopher T. Haley \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n President & FounderJohn Henry Crosby \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chairman of the BoardJonathan J. Sanford\n\n\n\nJonathan J. Sanford\, Ph.D.\, is the 10th president of the University of Dallas. President Sanford\, who previously served as provost and dean of UD’s undergraduate college\, holds a doctorate in philosophy and is an accomplished scholar. Sanford has published widely on philosophical figures and topics\, especially in foundational questions in moral philosophy\, as evidenced in Before Virtue: Assessing Contemporary Virtue Ethics (The Catholic University of America Press\, 2015 (paperback\, 2019)). As president\, he is focused on leading the implementation of the university’s strategic plan by building on the university’s reputation for academic rigor\, its commitment to classical Western tradition\, and its faithful Catholic identity.  \nSanford is a trustee of the Hildebrand Project\, a member of the Dallas chapter of Legatus\, a fellow of the Dallas Institute for Humanities and Culture\, and  and is active in several other professional and academic organizations.  \n\n\n\n\nUniversity of Dallas \nPresident & Professor of Philosophy \nResearch Areas: \nEthics\, Catholic Higher Education\, Ancient and Medieval Philosophy\, Metaphysics\, Virtue Theory \n\nMore about Jonathan Sanford\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSelect Bibliography\n\nBefore Virtue: Assessing Contemporary Virtue Ethics (Washington\, DC: The Catholic University of America Press\, 2015 (paperback\, 2019). \nThe Philosophical Legacy of Jorge J. E. Gracia\, co-edited with Robert Delfino and William Irwin (Lanham\, Md: Rowman & Littlefield\, 2022)  \nCategories: Historical and Systematic Essays\, co-edited with Michael Gorman\, (Washington\, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press\, 2004). \nNeo-Platonism and Its Legacy\, co-edited with Sarah Wear\, Volume 2\, Issues 1 & 2 of Quaestiones Disputatae\, Spring-Fall 2011. \n“Justice is Beautiful: Aristotle\, Aquinas\, and Justice as a Virtue\,” in Beauty and the Good: Past Interpretations and Their Contemporary Relevance\, edited by Alice Ramos (Washington\, DC: The Catholic University of America Press)\, forthcoming 2020. \n“Nature and the Common Good: Aristotle and Maritain on the Environment\,” in On Earth as it is in Heaven: Cultivating a Contemporary Theology of Creation\, edited by David Meconi\, S.J.\, and Christopher Thompson (Grand Rapids\,MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.\, 2016): 212-233. \n“Newman and the Virtue of Philosophy\,” Expositions 9 (2015): 41-55. \n“Aristotle\, Aquinas\, and the Christian Elevation of Pagan Friendship\,” in Love and Friendship\, edited by Montague Brown (Washington\, DC: The American Maritain Association Press\, 2013). \n“On Vice and Free Choice\,” in The Problem of Evil: Enduring Themes and Pressing Questions\, edited by James G. Hanink (Washington\, DC: The American Maritain Association Press\, 2013). \n“Scheler vs. Scheler: The Case for a Better Ontology of the Person\,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly\, vol. 79: 1 (2005): 145-161. \n“Affective Insight: Scheler on Feeling and Values\,” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly\, Vol. 76\, (2002). \n“Personalism in Relation to Aristotle and Aquinas\,” The Hildebrand Project’s Sixth Annual Summer Seminar: The Past and the Promise of Christian Personalism\, Franciscan University of Steubenville\, June 15\, 2016. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speaker (via Zoom)Eleonore StumpEleonore Stump is the Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University. She is also Honorary Professor at Wuhan University\, the Logos Institute and School of Divinity at St. Andrews\, and York University; and she is a Professorial Fellow at Australian Catholic University. She has published extensively in philosophy of religion\, contemporary metaphysics\, and medieval philosophy. Her books include Aquinas (2003)\, Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering (2010)\, Atonement (2018)\, and The Image of God: The Problem of Evil and the Problem of Mourning (2022). She has given the Gifford Lectures (Aberdeen\, 2003)\, the Wilde lectures (Oxford\, 2006)\, the Stewart lectures (Princeton\, 2009)\, and the Stanton lectures (Cambridge\, 2018). In 2021\, she was given the award of Johanna Quandt Young Academy Distinguished Senior Scientist by the Goethe University (Frankfurt\, Germany). She is past president of the Society of Christian Philosophers\, Philosophers in Jesuit Education\, the American Catholic Philosophical Association\, and the American Philosophical Association\, Central Division; and she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n John F. Crosby\n\n\nFranciscan University of Steubenville \nProfessor Emeritus of Philosophy \nResearch Areas: \nPersonalism\, John Henry Newman\, John Paul II\, Dietrich von Hildebrand \n \nProf. 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\, Prof. Crosby has devoted his long and distinguished academic career—first at the University of Dallas\, then at the International Academy of Philosophy\, and currently at Franciscan University of Steubenville—to introducing his students to the intellectual legacy of Hildebrand\, and also to making Hildebrand better known in scholarly circles. Prof. 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Poet and AuthorJames Matthew WilsonJames Matthew Wilson is the Cullen Foundation Chair in English Literature and the founding director of the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Saint Thomas. The author of eleven books\, his most recent collection of poems\, The Strangeness of the Good (2020)\, won the poetry book of the year award from the Catholic Media Awards. The Dallas Institute of Humanities awarded him the Hiett Prize in 2017; Memoria College gave him the Parnassus Prize\, in 2022; and the Conference on Christianity and Literature twice gave him the Lionel Basney Award. He serves as poet-in-residence of the Benedict XVI Institute\, editor of Colosseum Books\, and poetry editor of Modern Age magazine. His next book\, Catholic Modernism and the Irish “Avant-Garde” will be published in 2023. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Academic AdvisorMark K. SpencerUniversity of St Thomas\, MN Professor of Philosophy \nResearch Areas: Philosophical Anthropology\, Aesthetics\, Metaphysics\, Philosophical Theology \nDr. Mark K. Spencer\, Ph.D. is a Professor of philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. Spencer fell in love with philosophy in high school when he first encountered the writings of Albert Camus and St. Thomas Aquinas. He earned his Ph.D. from the University at Buffalo\, and his M.A. and B.A. from Franciscan University of Steubenville\, where he first encountered the work of Dietrich von Hildebrand. He is the author of 2 books and over 60 papers and reviews\, mostly focusing on the nature of the human person\, beauty\, and God’s relations to us. In his research\, he above all tries to synthesize many traditions’ approaches to these topics\, drawing on the scholastic\, phenomenological\, analytic\, and Greek Patristic traditions. Among the things he takes greatest delight in is introducing students to the insights of these traditions\, so as to help them better perceive and contemplate reality\, for which he finds the work of von Hildebrand an indispensable guide. He lives in St. Paul\, Minnesota\, with his wife\, Susanna\, and their four children. Together\, they especially enjoy hiking\, camping\, reading novels\, watching films\, gardening\, and homeschooling. \n\nMore about Dr. Mark Spencer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSelect Bibliography\n\n“Created Persons are Subsistent Relations: A Scholastic-Phenomenological Synthesis.” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 89\, Analyzing Catholic Philosophy (2015): 225-243. \n“Aristotelian Substance and Personalistic Subjectivity.” International Philosophical Quarterly 55:2 (June 2015): 145-164. \n“Divine Causality and Created Freedom: A Thomistic Personalist View.” Nova et Vetera 14:3 (Summer 2016): 375-419. \n“The Many Powers of the Human Soul: Von Hildebrand’s Contribution to Scholastic Philosophical Anthropology\,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 91:4\, Special Issue on Dietrich Von Hildebrand (Fall 2017): 719-735. \n“Perceiving the Image of God in the Whole Human Person\,” The Saint Anselm Journal 13:2 (Spring 2018): 1-18. \n“Sense Perception and the Flourishing of the Human Person in von Hildebrand and the Aristotelian Traditions\,” Tópicos\, Revista de Filosofía 56 (2019): 95-118. \n“Beauty and Being in von Hildebrand and the Aristotelian Tradition\,” The Review of Metaphysics 73:2 (December 2019): 311-334. \n“Covenantal Metaphysics and Cosmological Metaphysics: An Aesthetic Critique and an Aesthetic Synthesis”\, The Saint Anselm Journal 15:2 (Spring 2020): forthcoming. \n“Beauty and the Intellectual Virtues in Aristotle\,” in Beauty and the Good: Past Interpretations and Their Contemporary Relevance ed. Alice Ramos\, (Washington: The Catholic University of America Press\, 2020). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Franciscan University of SteubenvillePatrick LeeDr. Patrick Lee is a professor of philosophy and holds the John N. and Jamie D. McAleer Chair in Bioethics. He is also the director of the Center for Bioethics at Franciscan University of Steubenville. In this capacity he defends and articulates the Church’s position on a wide range of human life issues through his writings\, debates\, and public speaking engagements. \nHe received a B.A. from the University of Dallas\, an M.A. from Niagara University\, and a Ph.D. from Marquette University. He taught for eleven years at the University of St. Thomas in Houston before coming to Franciscan University in 1992. \nHe is a member of the American Catholic Philosophical Association\, and Society of Christian Philosophers. In 2005 Prof. Lee gave the annual John Heiser lecture at Niagara University entitled “Embryo-Killing and Stem Cell Research.” He is also the recipient of the Cardinal Wright Award for Excellence in Catholic Scholarship in Integrating Faith and Reason. He is the author of three books: Conjugal Union\, What Marriage is and Why it Matters (co-authored with Robert P. George)\, Abortion and Unborn Human Life\, and Body-Self Dualism and Contemporary Ethics and Politics (co-authored with Robert George). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Franciscan University of SteubenvilleMatthew Shea\n\n\n\nMatthew is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Franciscan University of Steubenville. He received his B.A. in philosophy from Boston College and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Saint Louis University. His dissertation was a defense of a relationship-centered account of human nature\, human flourishing\, and natural law-virtue ethics\, inspired by the thought of St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas. Prior to joining the Philosophy Department at Franciscan\, he was a postdoctoral fellow in clinical medical ethics at UCLA; a lecturer at UCLA’s schools of medicine\, nursing\, and public health; a faculty member at the Bioethics Institute at Loyola Marymount University; and an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Scranton. Matthew specializes in moral philosophy and bioethics\, and his current research focuses on value theory\, natural law ethics\, and the connections between theism and happiness/well-being. \n\n\n\n\nFranciscan University of Steubenville \nAssistant Professor of Philosophy \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSelect Bibliography\n\n“Value Comparability in Natural Law Ethics: A Defense.” Journal of Value Inquiry (forthcoming). \n“A Thomistic Solution to the Deep Problem for Perfectionism” (with James Kintz). Utilitas 34 (2022): 461–477. \n“Principlism’s Balancing Act: Why the Principles of Biomedical Ethics Need a Theory of the Good.” Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 45:4-5 (2020): 441–470. \n“The Quality of Life is Not Strained: Disability\, Human Nature\, Well-Being\, and Relationships.” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 29:4 (2019): 333–366. \n“Aquinas on God-Sanctioned Stealing.” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 92:2 (2018): 277–293. \n“God\, Evil\, and Occasionalism” (with C.P. Ragland). Religious Studies 54 (2018): 265–283. \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Franciscan University of SteubenvilleBrandon Dahm\n\n\nFranciscan University of Steubenville \nAssociate Professor of Philosophy \nBrandon Dahm is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Franciscan University of Steubenville. He received his BA in philosophy from Iowa State University in 2005 and his MA in philosophy from Southern Evangelical Seminary in 2011. During his MA\, he took a year off to read St. Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theolgiae at the University of Cambridge. He then\, finally\, finished his degrees in 2016 with his PhD from Baylor University. Dr. Dahm wrote his dissertation under Thomas Hibbs on how we can have positive knowledge of a transcendent God. His research is primarily on Aquinas’s moral philosophy\, philosophy of religion\, and the nature of virtue and vice. Recently\, he has been working on connections between psychology\, virtue\, and trauma. In addition to teaching and writing\, Dr. Dahm directs the MA in Philosophy and co-hosts the podcast Published at Franciscan. \nDr. Dahm is married to his wife\, Andrea\, a graphic designer and illustrator\, and has three daughters\, Beatrice\, Esther\, and Lucy who don’t have jobs yet. In addition to doing philosophy\, Dr. Dahm loves to cook\, have friends over\, watch movies\, and is an unrepentant coffee snob. In 2013\, Brandon and Andrea became Catholic (the long version is told in Evangelical Exodus) and are very happy to be a part of Franciscan University. \n \n\nMore about Dr. Brandon Dahm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSelect Bibliography\n\n“A Thomistic Account of Virtue as Expertise” Studies in Christian Ethics (2023) \n“Virtue and the Psychology of Habit” Co-authored with Matthew Breuninger\, in American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly (2021) \n“Correcting Acedia through Wonder and Gratitude” Religions (2021) \n“The Virtue of Somnience” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly (2020) \n“Thomas Aquinas on Separated Souls as Incomplete Human Persons” Co-authored with Daniel D. De Haan\, The Thomist (2019) \n“Distinguishing Desire and Parts of Happiness: A Response to Germain Grisez” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly (2015) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SpeakerRachel BulmanRachel Bulman has been married for over 14 years\, and her husband is a permanent deacon. They have six children from 12 years to 20 months old\, and the youngest children are a set of twins. Rachel is a national speaker and author. She served as editor for Word on Fire’s With All Her Mind: A Call to the Intellectual Life\, a collection of essays exploring the intellectual life for women\, and she wrote Becoming Wife: Saying Yes to More Than the Dress (Our Sunday Visitor\, June 2023)\, a theological and philosophical reflection on spousality. She has written and hosted a television series for Catholic TV about Eucharistic miracles\, and she appears with her family in the show Meet the Bulmans currently airing on the Word on Fire Institute’s YouTube channel. She has appeared on numerous podcasts and radio shows. Rachel serves on the advisory board of The GIVEN Institute\, and in her spare time\, she enjoys reading a good book\, lifting weights\, and perfecting her Old Fashioned cocktail recipe. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Associated ScholarJames Beauregard\n\n\n\nJames Beauregard PhD is a Lecturer in the Psy.D. and Ed.D. programs at Rivier University\, Nashua\, New Hampshire\, USA where he teachers Biological Bases of Behavior\, Neuropsychology\, 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\, where he serves as a neuroethics expert\, the Spanish Personalist Association and the International Conference on Persons (where he serves on the board of directors). His recent publications include Philosophical Neuroethics: A Personalist Approach\, Vol. 1\, Foundations and the forthcoming Philosophical Neuroethics\, Vol. 2: Practical Neuroethics. He is currently working on an educational project in conjunction with a Catholic high school to bring the ethical thought of Dietrich von Hildebrand\, as well as other personalist philosophers\, into the high school curriculum through writing of a high school Catholic Ethics text and instructional materials. He is also editor of the forthcoming Internet Encyclopedia of Personalism\, an online\, open access peer-reviewed resource on personalist thought to be launched in 2021. 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\nRivier University \nLecturer\, Psy.D. and Ed.D. Programs \nResearch Areas: \nContemporary European personalist thought\, neuroethics\, bioethics\, personalist psychology\, and the ethical vision of Dietrich von Hildebrand \n\nMore about Jim Beauregard\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSelect Bibliography\n\nBeauregard\, James (in press). Philosophical Neuroethics: A Personalist Approach. Vol. 2: Practical Neuroethics. Wilmington DE: Vernon Press. \nBeauregard\, James. “Integral Personalism and Neuroethics: Informing the Foundation.” Quién\, 12 (2020): 79-97. \nBeauregard\, James. “Forgetting and Remembering Ourselves: Techne\, Metaphor and the Unity of Persons\,” in J. Beauregard\, G. Gallo and C. Stancati\, eds.\, The Person at the Crossroads: A Philosophical Approach. Wilmington\, DE: Vernon Press\, 2020. \nBeauregard\, James. Philosophical Neuroethics: A Personalist Approach. Vol. 1: Foundations. Wilmington DE: Vernon Press\, 2019. \nBeauregard\, James (2018). Advancing a Personalist Neuroethics. National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 18.2 (Summer 2018): 269-290. \nBeauregard\, James (2018). The Modern Ontological Personalism of Juan Manuel Burgos in the Public Square: Toward a Personalist Neuroethics. Quien 6: 7-31. \nBeauregard\, James. “Institutions Supported\, Institutions Subverted: Thomas O. Buford on the Parables of Jesus” in James M. McLachlan\, James Beauregard and Richard Prust\, eds.\, Persons\, Institutions and Trust: Essays in Honor of Thomas O. Buford. Wilmington\, DE: Vernon Press\, 2018. \nBeauregard\, James. “The Need for a Catholic Neuroethics” Ethics and Medics (National Catholics Bioethics Center)\, 42 (2017): 12-13. \nBeauregard\, James and Simon Smith eds. In the Sphere of the Personal: New Perspectives in the Philosophy of Persons. Wilmington\, DE: Vernon Press\, 2016. \nBeauregard\, James\, M. Aftab\, and A. Sajid. “Consciousness\, Neuroimaging and Personhood: Current and Future Neuroethical Challenges.” Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 4\, no. 1 (2016): 1–11. \nBeauregard\, James. Sexuality\, Dementia and Catholic Long-term Healthcare. National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly\, 15\, no. 3 (Autumn 2015): 493-513. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CatholicPsychDr. Gregory BottaroDr. Greg Bottaro is the director of the CatholicPsych Institute and the CatholicPsych Academy. He developed the Catholic Mindfulness online course. Before getting his doctorate\, he spent four years living as a Franciscan friar\, serving the poor in the tradition of St. Francis. He ultimately discerned a call to pursue family life. Six years after leaving NYC as a friar\, Dr. Bottaro returned as a psychologist. His aim is fundamentally the same – to serve. Instead of serving those suffering material poverty\, he now seeks to serve those with psychological needs. \nThe CatholicPsych mission is to integrate insights from psychology with the Catholic faith to provide the best possible treatment and resources to help people flourish. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Special Programs AdvisorAmanda AchtmanAmanda Achtman studied liberal arts and political theory in her hometown of Calgary\, Alberta. After creating a viral political parody video\, she moved to Toronto to do a mix of journalism\, crowdfunding\, and advocacy addressing the most passionate and underserved issues in Canada. Living the alternation between action and contemplation\, she then went to Poland to become a student of saints\, heroes\, and martyrs at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. Passionate about foreign policy\, human rights\, religious freedom\, and public bioethics\, Amanda recently served as the senior advisor to a member of parliament working to prevent the expansion of euthanasia to persons living with a disability or mental illness. She is an alumna of programs of the Hildebrand Project\, the Acton Institute\, ADF International\, the Tertio Millennio Seminar on the Free Society\, and many others. Raised in a Jewish-Catholic family\, Amanda has had a lifelong passion for humanizing the culture. Currently based in Rome\, she is now pursuing a Licentiate in Judaic Studies and Jewish-Christian Relations at the Cardinal Bea Centre of the Pontifical Gregorian University. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Vice President & PublisherChristopher T. HaleyChristopher Haley is Vice President of the Hildebrand Project and Director of the Hildebrand Press. Over the past decade he has helped guide the organization’s growth from a specialist academic initiative into a vibrant cultural institution dedicated to the personalist philosophical tradition. Through publishing\, communications\, and program development\, his work brings the thought of Dietrich von Hildebrand and kindred figures such as Karol Wojtyła\, Edith Stein\, and Max Scheler to new popular and scholarly audiences. \nOriginally drawn to philosophy by a love of beauty\, Christopher studied philosophy and ancient languages at the University of Texas and later pursued graduate work at the University of Dallas\, where a course on Edith Stein with philosopher Robert E. Wood introduced him to Christian personalism and helped shape the direction of his work. To this vocation he has brought both a deep grounding in the philosophical tradition and a range of professional experience—in teaching\, writing\, publishing\, and communications—and in the Hildebrand Project these different strands of his intellectual and professional life have come together in service of a common mission. \nHis essays have appeared in First Things\, America\, and other publications. He lives in Texas with his wife and young children\, and enjoys classical music\, poetry\, cycling\, and woodworking. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n President & FounderJohn Henry CrosbyJohn Henry Crosby is a translator\, writer\, critic\, and cultural entrepreneur.  \nLate in 2003\, searching for a life’s work that could integrate the quest for truth\, the existential need for beauty\, and the service of a great good\, and beginning to despair of ever finding such a mission\, he called Alice von Hildebrand to propose that he spend one year translating her late husband’s Aesthetics. Would she help\, he asked. \nShe did\, and her blessing transformed his one-year plan into lifelong mission that soon attracted the collaboration of others. Thus\, the life’s work he had sought found him. Established in February 2004\, the Hildebrand Project’s mission to renew culture has grown to encompass publications\, events\, fellowships\, and online resources that draw on the continuing vitality of Dietrich von Hildebrand’s thought and witness. \nUnder his leadership\, the Hildebrand Project has become the world’s leading organization dedicated to Dietrich von Hildebrand’s legacy. The Project has been supported by many leading foundations and donors\, including the Bradley Foundation\, Chiaroscuro Foundation\, Earhart Foundation\, Fieldstead & Company\, Henry Luce Foundation\, Luddy Charitable Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, Our Sunday Visitor Institute\, Papal Foundation\, and the Raskob Foundation.  \nHe was the editor of a new edition of Dietrich von Hildebrand’s The Heart (St. Augustine’s Press\, 2007). He joined John F. Crosby as co-translator of Hildebrand’s major philosophical work\, The Nature of Love (St. Augustine’s Press\, 2009). He edited Selected Papers in the Philosophy of Dietrich von Hildebrand (2012)\, the first major volume of essays on von Hildebrand in two decades. Most recently he is the primary compiler\, editor\, and translator of Hildebrand’s anti-Nazi papers\, My Battle Against Hitler (Random House\, 2014).  \nHis work has been featured in both popular (e.g.\, The Daily Beast) and scholarly publications (Logos Journal). His numerous radio appearances have taken him from PRI’s The Takeaway to the Hugh Hewitt Show. He was host of He Dared Speak the Truth\, a 14-part television series on the life of Dietrich von Hildebrand\, which aired on EWTN (2014). \nSon of an Austrian mother and an American father\, his mother tongue was German. Both his undergraduate studies in philosophy\, history\, and literature (2000) as well as his graduate studies in philosophy (2001) were pursued at Franciscan University of Steubenville\, Ohio.  \nHe was for many years a violinist. As a student of Daniel Heifetz\, he was formed in the great violinistic traditions of Henryk Szeryng\, David Oistrakh\, and Ivan Galamian.  \nHe serves as a trustee of The Personalist Project.  \nIn 2010 he married Robin-Marie Bobak. Through their marriage—and all the more with the birth of their children Magdalene (2011)\, Robin (2013)\, John Henry\, Jr. (2015)\, and Peter—he has found (or\, again\, been found by) an integration of the good\, true\, and beautiful far greater than any he has ever known. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nFormat\n \nThe seminar will be a mix of lectures\, panels\, conversations\, and small group discussions. \n \nEach morning will open with a keynote lecture on a core topic\, followed by panel discussions exploring particular themes. After a break for mass (optional) and lunch\, the afternoons will be devoted to In Conversation sessions that will address questions and challenges\, followed by small group discussions facilitated by seminar faculty. \n \nHildebrand Project events are intellectual and convivial. Participants are sent a list of reading materials upon acceptance\, which should be completed before the start of the seminar. The days are devoted to seminar sessions\, while the evenings are free—and often filled with wine\, music\, and conversation. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nSchedule\n \nThe seminar will begin with an opening dinner on June 26. Participants will depart on July 1. \n \nDay 1: Created in the Image of God\n \n\nKeynote: The Christian Vision of Creation\n \nPanel: Gratitude & Worship: Prayer\, Eucharist\, Liturgy\n \nConversation: Gratitude & Great Suffering\n\n \nDay 2: The Gift of Self\n \n\nKeynote: Acceptance of One’s Own Being\n \nPanel: Ingratitude – Self-Hatred\, Depression\, & Despair\n \nConversation: Promethean Choice – Transhumanism & Euthanasia\n\n \nDay 3: To Give as we Receive\n \n\nKeynote: Gratitude & the Reception of Tradition\n \nPanel: Human Challenges to which Gratitude is an Antidote\n \nConversation: Care for One Another – Stewardship & Civil Society\n\n \nDay 4: The Fruits of a Grateful Life\n \n\nKeynote: Manifestations of Gratitude – Joy\, Festivity\, Hope\n \nPanel: The Role of Gratitude in Creativity\, Art\, and Invention\n \nConversation: Closing Faculty Panel\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n \nApplying for the Seminar\n \nThe seminar is open to anyone who wishes to explore the nature and significance of character\, virtue\, integrity\, and authenticity\, including especially: \n \n\nUndergraduate and graduate students\n \nUniversity and high school professors \n \nArtists\, writers\, musicians\, and architects \n \nTeachers\, educators\, and administrators \n \nSeminarians and clergy \n\n \nThe application process is based on interest but subject to space limitations.The application and nomination window ends on April 30\, 2023. \n \nYou may apply online below. The application contains two short essays (300 words max)\, and you will add your answers there: \n \n(1) How do you expect the Hildebrand Seminar to affect your life and work when you return home?(2) Read this excerpt from Gratitude and comment on the relationship between gratitude and God. \n \nWe encourage faculty to nominate students to attend. Nominations will serve in lieu of letters of recommendation.  \n \n \nOnline Seminar Track\n \nIn response to many requests from those who cannot attend in person\, we are pleased to announce a virtual track for this year’s summer seminar. With exclusive Q&A time with our speakers\, dedicated small-group discussions\, as well as access to every keynote\, panel\, and conversation\, our virtual track is not a streaming simulacrum but a personal online experience for those who cannot attend in person. The deadline to apply is June 1\, and the cost to attend is $49. We hope you will join us. \n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n\nRoom\, Board\, and Travel\n\nThe seminar will be held on the campus of Franciscan University of Steubenville\, where participants will be lodged in university housing. Professional participants also have the option of staying at the Franciscan Square Inn at their own expense (there is a discounted seminar rate available). Participants will have access to the university library\, internet\, and other basic amenities. All costs for room and board are included in the seminar fee. \n \nTravel to and from Pittsburgh International Airport will be provided. Parking will be available on campus for those who drive. \n\n\n\n \n\n\nCosts & Scholarship Opportunities\n\nThe fee covers room\, board\, and reading materials for the length of the seminar. Attendees are asked to pursue all possible funding sources as fees play a critical role in making the seminars possible. Attendees whose participation is contingent on financial support may request a scholarship when applying. To be considered for a scholarship\, applicants must submit a letter of recommendation or receive a nomination. Recommendations can be emailed directly to events@hildebrandproject.org. \n \nStudent: $650Professional (dormitory housing): $1\,650Professional (no dormitory housing; attendee covers hotel accommodations at the special seminar rate of $129/night): $1\,250 \n \nSpecial rate for Franciscan University of Steubenville students: $199 (with housing) / $99 (without housing). \n\n\n\n \n\n\nSponsor the Summer Seminar\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n \nDownload the flyer for the event here: Summer Seminar 2023 Flyer (pdf) URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/gratitude-2023-summer-seminar/ CATEGORIES:Summer Seminar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://hildebrandproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Seminar-Tanner-No-Text.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220627T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220702T080000 DTSTAMP:20260530T224815 CREATED:20220214T185916Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221004T160848Z UID:875-1656343800-1656748800@hildebrandproject.org SUMMARY:Readiness to Change: Conversion & the Christian Life DESCRIPTION:12th Annual Summer Seminar\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Panel #1: Readiness to Change\, featuring Dr. Mark Spencer\, Dr. Maria Wolter\, and Dr. Jim Beauregard. 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Readiness to Change: Conversion & the Christian Life (2022 Summer Seminar) ...\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Load More...\n \n \n\n \n \n \n Subscribe \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n \nJune 27 – July 2\, 2022 \n\nThe aspiring man of natural morality is intent on eradicating this defect\, on acquiring that virtue; the Christian\, however\, is intent on becoming another man in all things\, in regard to both what is bad and what is naturally good in him. \n\nDietrich von Hildebrand understood our readiness to change not only as the beginning of the Christian life\, but also as the source of its continuance and completion. It is\, one could say\, the fundamental answer to the call\, the vocation\, to Christ. This was not a mere readiness to change a little here or a little there\, but to be changed radically\, at all levels of one’s being\, to be made “a new creature in Christ.” \nThis theme of readiness to change was a constant in Hildebrand’s life. Indeed\, the first time young Alice Jourdain met Dietrich von Hildebrand in November 1942\, it was to attend one of his “liturgical evenings” at his flat in New York City. His theme that evening was “the readiness to change\,” the first chapter of his major religious book\, Transformation in Christ. “From the first moment he began to speak\,” Alice later wrote\, “I felt that he was feeding my soul with a food that I had always longed for. He spoke out of a deep recollection\, and I drank in every word…” \nHer experience changed the course of her life\, but she was not alone in her response to Hildebrand’s religious wisdom. Many who heard him speak on religious themes had similar experiences. They were moved by the depth of his understanding of the inner life. They felt in him not just a professor but a true confessor of the Christian faith. \nIn our 2022 seminar\, we take Dietrich von Hildebrand as a master of the spiritual life. In particular\, we will explore the image that Hildebrand gives of the person “transformed by Christ.” For this\, we will begin with his account of the “fundamental attitudes\,” especially of reverence\, in his book The Art Living. We will then explore his account of the supernatural virtues and attitudes — from metanoia (which Joseph Ratzinger says has “seldom been so accurately diagnosed”) and contrition to recollection and contemplation to humility and mercy.  \nWe will\, as always\, read Hildebrand in conversation with great kindred spirits like Romano Guardini and Edith Stein and figures in the tradition\, notably Plato and Augustine. We will connect Hildebrand with some of the great spiritual masters\, including St. Benedict and St. Ignatius\, and show him as a herald of the Second Vatican Council’s teaching on the universal call to holiness. \nFaculty\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Academic AdvisorMark K. Spencer \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Associated ScholarMartin Cajthaml \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Associated ScholarBeth A. Rath \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Associated ScholarDT Sheffler \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n John F. Crosby \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Associated ScholarFr. James Dominic Brent\, O.P \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Associated ScholarJames Beauregard \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Associated ScholarJason Bell \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Associated ScholarElizabeth C. Shaw \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Matthew Breuninger \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Maria Wolter \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Associated ScholarRobert McNamara \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Director\, Hildebrand Chair for Christian Personalism Elisa Grimi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Aaron Preston \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Walter Hopp \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Associated ScholarHrvoje Vargić \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alex Plato \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Academic AdvisorMark K. SpencerUniversity of St Thomas\, MN Professor of Philosophy \nResearch Areas: Philosophical Anthropology\, Aesthetics\, Metaphysics\, Philosophical Theology \nDr. Mark K. Spencer\, Ph.D. is a Professor of philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. Spencer fell in love with philosophy in high school when he first encountered the writings of Albert Camus and St. Thomas Aquinas. He earned his Ph.D. from the University at Buffalo\, and his M.A. and B.A. from Franciscan University of Steubenville\, where he first encountered the work of Dietrich von Hildebrand. He is the author of 2 books and over 60 papers and reviews\, mostly focusing on the nature of the human person\, beauty\, and God’s relations to us. In his research\, he above all tries to synthesize many traditions’ approaches to these topics\, drawing on the scholastic\, phenomenological\, analytic\, and Greek Patristic traditions. Among the things he takes greatest delight in is introducing students to the insights of these traditions\, so as to help them better perceive and contemplate reality\, for which he finds the work of von Hildebrand an indispensable guide. He lives in St. Paul\, Minnesota\, with his wife\, Susanna\, and their four children. Together\, they especially enjoy hiking\, camping\, reading novels\, watching films\, gardening\, and homeschooling. \n\nMore about Dr. Mark Spencer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSelect Bibliography\n\n“Created Persons are Subsistent Relations: A Scholastic-Phenomenological Synthesis.” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 89\, Analyzing Catholic Philosophy (2015): 225-243. \n“Aristotelian Substance and Personalistic Subjectivity.” International Philosophical Quarterly 55:2 (June 2015): 145-164. \n“Divine Causality and Created Freedom: A Thomistic Personalist View.” Nova et Vetera 14:3 (Summer 2016): 375-419. \n“The Many Powers of the Human Soul: Von Hildebrand’s Contribution to Scholastic Philosophical Anthropology\,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 91:4\, Special Issue on Dietrich Von Hildebrand (Fall 2017): 719-735. \n“Perceiving the Image of God in the Whole Human Person\,” The Saint Anselm Journal 13:2 (Spring 2018): 1-18. \n“Sense Perception and the Flourishing of the Human Person in von Hildebrand and the Aristotelian Traditions\,” Tópicos\, Revista de Filosofía 56 (2019): 95-118. \n“Beauty and Being in von Hildebrand and the Aristotelian Tradition\,” The Review of Metaphysics 73:2 (December 2019): 311-334. \n“Covenantal Metaphysics and Cosmological Metaphysics: An Aesthetic Critique and an Aesthetic Synthesis”\, The Saint Anselm Journal 15:2 (Spring 2020): forthcoming. \n“Beauty and the Intellectual Virtues in Aristotle\,” in Beauty and the Good: Past Interpretations and Their Contemporary Relevance ed. Alice Ramos\, (Washington: The Catholic University of America Press\, 2020). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Associated ScholarMartin Cajthaml\n\n\n\nCajthaml 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. He is a full professor and the Head of the Department of Philosophy and Patrology at the Sts Cyril and Methodius Faculty of Theology of Palacky University Olomouc\, Czech Republic. \n\n\n\n\nPalacký University Olomouc \nAssociate Professor of Philosophy \nResearch Areas: \nPhilosophical Ethics; Intellectual and Spiritual Roots of European Culture; Value Theory \n\nMore about Martin Cajthaml\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSelect Bibliography\n\nCajthaml\, M.\, Vohánka V. The Moral Philosophy of Dietrich von Hildebrand . Washington: Catholic University of America Press\, 2019. \nCajthaml\, M. “Dietrich von Hildebrand’s Moral Epistemology.” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 92\, no. 4 (2018): 615-640 \nCajthaml\, M. “Von Hildebrand on Acting against One’s Better Knowledge: A Comparison with Plato.” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 91\, no. 4 (2017): 637–653. \nCajthaml\, M. “Von Hildebrand’s Concept of Value.” Studia Neoaristotelica 15\, no. 1 (2018): 95-130. \nCajthaml\, M. “Love as a Value Response. Von Hildebrand´s Philosophy of Love.” Reflexe 39 (2010): 19-33. \nCajthaml\, M. “Moral Virtue according to von Hildebrand with Respect to Aristotle.” Reflexe 43 (2012)\, 59-78. \nCajthaml\, M. “The Moral Value of Emotions in Respect to Aristotle\, Kant\, and von Hildebrand.” Studia Neoaristotelica 12\, no. 3 (2015): 5-25. \nCajthaml\, M. “Value Blindness according to von Hildebrand.” Studia Neoaristotelica 2 (Series bohemoslovaca)\, no. 5/3 (2017): 39-67. \nCajthaml\, M. “Love as Desire of the Good or Love as Value-Response? Plato and von Hildebrand on the Essence of Love.“ AITHÉR\, no. 4 (2016): 54-65. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Associated ScholarBeth A. Rath\n\n\n\nBeth. A. Rath is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Borromeo Seminary in Cleveland\, OH. Her first formal experience with philosophy was as a teenager. She heard a lecture on Descartes\, and from there she was intrigued by the sorts of questions philosophers ask. Beth went on to study philosophy and theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville\, where she first encountered the work of St. Thomas Aquinas and personalism. There she heard a lecture by Alice von Hildebrand that changed the trajectory of her life and inspired her to pursue graduate studies in philosophy. She completed her doctorate in philosophy at Saint Louis University\, with an emphasis on the nature of the human person\, moral philosophy\, and themes at the intersection of philosophy and theology. At Borromeo\, Beth teaches a wide variety of philosophy courses to both seminarians and lay students\, and she co-teaches Tolle Lege\, a Catholic ‘nerd camp’ for high school seniors in the Diocese of Cleveland. \n\n\n\n\nBorromeo Seminary \nAssociate Professor of Philosophy \nResearch Areas: \nPhilosophical Anthropology\, Philosophy of Religion\, Ethics\,and the work of Thomas Aquinas (Thomism) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSelect Bibliography\n\nManuscript in Progress: Philosophy in Seminary Formation. Institute for Priestly Formation. Forthcoming in 2021 or 2022. \n“Are There Any True Moral Enhancements: Aristotelian and Thomistic Perspectives.” European Journal for Philosophy of Religion (accepted\, should be forthcoming in 2021). \n“Emotions and the Moral Life in Aquinas and Hildebrand.” Paper delivered at the Hildebrand Project Summer Seminar. July 2020. \n“On the Impossibility of Engineering Moral Virtue.” Oxford University\, Ian Ramsey Centre. Transhumanism\, Posthumanism\, and Supernaturalism Conference. July 2018. \n“Christ’s Faith\, Doubt\, and the Cry of Dereliction.” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 81 (2017): 161-169. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Associated ScholarDT Sheffler\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\n\nMemoria College \nProfessor of Philosophy \nResearch Areas: \nAncient Philosophy\, Platonism\, Early Christianity\, Christian Personalism\, Philosophy of Religion \n\nMore about DT Sheffler\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSelect Bibliography\n\n“Introduction” to a special issue of Quaestiones Disputataeon the philosophy of Dietrich von Hildebrand (forthcoming). \n“Hildebrand\, Hypostasis\, and the Irreducibility of Personal Existence\,” Quaestiones Disputatae (forthcoming). \n“Hildebrand’s Free Personal Center\,” Hildebrand Project Summer Residency (2019). \n“Bite-Sized Philosophy\,” review of The Art of Living\, by Dietrich von Hildebrand\, Touchstone\, (June/July 2018). \n“Platonic versus Christian Conceptions of the Self\,” Athens and Jerusalem Conference\, Lawrenceburg KY\, April 2018. \n“Worship Becomes Us\,” review of Liturgy and Personality\, by Dietrich von Hildebrand\, Touchstone\, (May/June 2017). \n“The Metaphysics of Personhood in Plato’s Dialogues” (doctoral dissertation\, University of Kentucky\, 2017)\, doi: 10.13023/ETD.2017.142. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n John F. Crosby\n\n\nFranciscan University of Steubenville \nProfessor Emeritus of Philosophy \nResearch Areas: \nPersonalism\, John Henry Newman\, John Paul II\, Dietrich von Hildebrand \n \nProf. 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\, Prof. Crosby has devoted his long and distinguished academic career—first at the University of Dallas\, then at the International Academy of Philosophy\, and currently at Franciscan University of Steubenville—to introducing his students to the intellectual legacy of Hildebrand\, and also to making Hildebrand better known in scholarly circles. Prof. 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Associated ScholarFr. James Dominic Brent\, O.PPontifical Faculty of the Immaculate ConceptionAssistant Professor of Philosophy \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 forthcoming 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 \nResearch Areas: \nEpistemology; Aquinas\, Knowledge\, \n\nMore about Fr. James Dominic Brent\, O.P\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Associated ScholarJames Beauregard\n\n\n\nJames Beauregard PhD is a Lecturer in the Psy.D. and Ed.D. programs at Rivier University\, Nashua\, New Hampshire\, USA where he teachers Biological Bases of Behavior\, Neuropsychology\, 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\, where he serves as a neuroethics expert\, the Spanish Personalist Association and the International Conference on Persons (where he serves on the board of directors). His recent publications include Philosophical Neuroethics: A Personalist Approach\, Vol. 1\, Foundations and the forthcoming Philosophical Neuroethics\, Vol. 2: Practical Neuroethics. He is currently working on an educational project in conjunction with a Catholic high school to bring the ethical thought of Dietrich von Hildebrand\, as well as other personalist philosophers\, into the high school curriculum through writing of a high school Catholic Ethics text and instructional materials. He is also editor of the forthcoming Internet Encyclopedia of Personalism\, an online\, open access peer-reviewed resource on personalist thought to be launched in 2021. 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\nRivier University \nLecturer\, Psy.D. and Ed.D. Programs \nResearch Areas: \nContemporary European personalist thought\, neuroethics\, bioethics\, personalist psychology\, and the ethical vision of Dietrich von Hildebrand \n\nMore about Jim Beauregard\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSelect Bibliography\n\nBeauregard\, James (in press). Philosophical Neuroethics: A Personalist Approach. Vol. 2: Practical Neuroethics. Wilmington DE: Vernon Press. \nBeauregard\, James. “Integral Personalism and Neuroethics: Informing the Foundation.” Quién\, 12 (2020): 79-97. \nBeauregard\, James. “Forgetting and Remembering Ourselves: Techne\, Metaphor and the Unity of Persons\,” in J. Beauregard\, G. Gallo and C. Stancati\, eds.\, The Person at the Crossroads: A Philosophical Approach. Wilmington\, DE: Vernon Press\, 2020. \nBeauregard\, James. Philosophical Neuroethics: A Personalist Approach. Vol. 1: Foundations. Wilmington DE: Vernon Press\, 2019. \nBeauregard\, James (2018). Advancing a Personalist Neuroethics. National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 18.2 (Summer 2018): 269-290. \nBeauregard\, James (2018). The Modern Ontological Personalism of Juan Manuel Burgos in the Public Square: Toward a Personalist Neuroethics. Quien 6: 7-31. \nBeauregard\, James. “Institutions Supported\, Institutions Subverted: Thomas O. Buford on the Parables of Jesus” in James M. McLachlan\, James Beauregard and Richard Prust\, eds.\, Persons\, Institutions and Trust: Essays in Honor of Thomas O. Buford. Wilmington\, DE: Vernon Press\, 2018. \nBeauregard\, James. “The Need for a Catholic Neuroethics” Ethics and Medics (National Catholics Bioethics Center)\, 42 (2017): 12-13. \nBeauregard\, James and Simon Smith eds. In the Sphere of the Personal: New Perspectives in the Philosophy of Persons. Wilmington\, DE: Vernon Press\, 2016. \nBeauregard\, James\, M. Aftab\, and A. Sajid. “Consciousness\, Neuroimaging and Personhood: Current and Future Neuroethical Challenges.” Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 4\, no. 1 (2016): 1–11. \nBeauregard\, James. Sexuality\, Dementia and Catholic Long-term Healthcare. National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly\, 15\, no. 3 (Autumn 2015): 493-513. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Associated ScholarJason Bell\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\nUniversity of New Brunswick \nAssistant Professor of Philosophy \nResearch Areas: \n19th and 20th Century Philosophy: Continental Philosophy\, North American Philosophy; Ethics and Applied Ethics; Personalism; Phenomenology; Pragmatism \n\nMore about Jason Bell\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSelect Bibliography\n\nBell\, Jason and Vongehr\, Thomas\, eds. (2018). Eine kritische Untersuchung der Erkenntnistheorie Josiah Royces (A Critical Investigation of Josiah Royce’s Epistemology)\, Husserliana (Springer Press). \nBell\, Jason and Bogaard\, Paul\, eds. (2017). The Harvard Lectures of Alfred North Whitehead\, 1924-1937: Philosophical Presuppositions of Science. Volume I of the Whitehead Critical Edition\, Edinburgh University Press. \nBell\, Jason and Parker\, Kelly\, eds. (2014). The Relevance of Royce\, Fordham University Press. \nBell\, Jason (2020). “Lotze’s System Σ: An Inspiration for Pragmatic ‘Internal and External Meaning of Ideas’ and Phenomenological ‘Intentionality’?” Phänomenologische Forschungen. \nBell\, Jason (2020). “Loyalty to Philosophy” The Pluralist\, 15.2. \nBell\, Jason and Iyengar\, Seshu (2020). “Pure and Applied Trope Theory\,” ‘Keynote Author\,’ Discipline Filosofiche\, XXX\, 1\, 2020\, in the special edition: “Realism\, Pragmatism\, Naturalism. The Metamorphosis of Phenomenology in North America\,” ed. Danilo Manca and Antonio Nunziante. \nBell\, Jason (2019). “Phenomenology’s Inauguration in the American Curriculum in Winthrop Bell’s 1927 Harvard Course” in The Reception of Husserlian Phenomenology in North America\, Springer Press. \nBell\, Jason (2016). “Intellectual and Ethical Inhibition: A Meeting of Pragmatism and Phenomenology\,” in Phenomenology for the Twenty-First Century\, Palgrave Macmillan. \nBell\, Jason (2014). “On Four Originators of Transatlantic Phenomenology: Josiah Royce\, Edmund Husserl\, William Hocking\, Winthrop Bell\,” in The Relevance of Royce\, Fordham University Press. \nBell\, Jason (2012). “Thomas Aquinas and the Origins of Phenomenology” (“Thomas von Aquin und die Anfänge der Phänomenologie\,”) in the Edith Stein Jahrbuch\, Internationale Edith Stein Institut Würzburg\, Germany. \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Associated ScholarElizabeth C. Shaw\n\n\n\nElizabeth Shaw is assistant director for special academic programs at the Arthur & Carlyse Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship and a lecturer in the School of Philosophy and the Busch School of Business at The Catholic University of America. For several years she has assisted in the preparation of new releases from the Hildebrand Press. Dr. Shaw teaches online for the Catholic Distance University and is also associate editor of The Review of Metaphysics and the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly. For eight years she was research assistant to Catholic intellectual Michael Novak. She has a B.S. in mathematics from Georgetown University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in philosophy from Catholic University. \n\n\n\n\nCatholic University of America \nAssistant Director\, Special Academic Programs\, Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship; Lecturer\, School of Philosophy \nResearch Areas: \nAmerican Philosophy\, Ethics\, Personalism\, Catholic Social Thought \n\nMore about Elizabeth Shaw\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSelect Bibliography\n\n“Hildebrand on the Heart of Personality\,” Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly 43 (2020): forthcoming. \n“The Will to Believe\,” in Gale Researcher Philosophy Series 1 and 2 Detroit: Gale/Cengage\, 2017). \n“Intuition and Evolution in the Thought of Henri Bergson\,” Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly 38\, no. 1/2 (Spring/Summer 2015): 12–21. \n“Caritas and Human Flourishing\,” in An American and Catholic Life: Essays Dedicated to Michael Novak (Ave Maria\, Fla.: Sapientia Press\, 2015)\, 70–82. \n“Intelligent Subjectivity: Into the Presence of God\,” in Theologian and Philosopher of Liberty: Essays of Evaluation and Criticism in Honor of Michael Novak(Grand Rapids\, Mich.: Acton Institute\, 2014)\, 1–9. \nCourse: \n“On the Human Person: Business and Entrepreneurial Perspectives” (drawing on the thought of Karol Wojtyla and others)\, to be offered in the Busch School of Business at Catholic University. Forthcoming. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Matthew Breuninger\n\n\n\nDr. Matthew Breuninger is an assistant professor of psychology at Franciscan University of Steubenville. He earned an MA in Theology from Ave Maria University and a doctoral degree in clinical psychology from Baylor University. Dr. Breuninger is a licensed clinical psychologist. His clinical interests include anxiety\, depression\, trauma\, and substance abuse. His academic interests comprise the intersection of faith and psychology\, psychology of religion\, and virtue formation. When not teaching Dr. Breuninger can be found spending time hiking with his family or fishing in the local lakes. \n\n\n\n\nFranciscan University of Steubenville \nAssistant Professor of Psychology \n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Maria WolterFranciscan University of Steubenville\, Austria ProgramProfessor of Philosophy \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. \nResearch Areas: \nPhenomenology\, Modern and Renaissance Philosophy\, Axiology\, Personalism\, and Ethics. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Associated ScholarRobert McNamara\n\n\n\nRobert is an Associate Professor of Franciscan University of Steubenville\, where he teaches philosophy and theology\, an associate member of faculty of the International Theological Institute and the Maryvale Institute\, an Associated Scholar of the Hildebrand Project\, and a founding member of the Aquinas Institute of Ireland\, for which he currently holds the position of secretary. Robert was educated at the National University of Ireland Galway\, where he studied physics and applied science\, Maynooth University and St. Patrick’s College\, where he studied philosophy and theological studies\, the International Theological Institute\, where he received a master’s degree in the theology of marriage and family\, and Liverpool Hope University\, where he completed a doctorate of philosophy detailing Edith Stein’s engagement with the thought of Thomas Aquinas in her mature philosophy of the human person. Robert is originally from Galway\, Ireland. \n\n\n\n\nFranciscan University of Steubenville \nAssistant Professor of Philosophy \nResearch Areas: \nEthics\, Moral Philosophy\, Metaphysics\, Personalism\, Edith Stein\, Thomas Aquinas (Thomism) \n\nMore about Robert McNamara\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSelect Bibliography\n\n‘The Concept of Christian Philosophy in Edith Stein’\, in American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly\, 94.2 (2020)\, pp. 323-46. \n‘The Cognition of the Human Individual in the Mature Thought of Edith Stein’\, in Philosophical News\, a Publication of the European Society for Moral Philosophy\, ed. Elisa Grimi\, 16 (forthcoming). \n‘Human Individuality in Stein’s Mature Works’\, in Edith Steins Herausforderung heutiger Anthropologie\, ed. by Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz and Mette Lebech (Heiligenkreuz: Be&Be\, 2017)\, pp. 124-39 \n‘Essence in Edith Stein’s Festschrift Dialogue’\, in Alles Wesentliche lässt sich nicht schreiben\, ed. by Andreas Speer and Stephen Regh (Freiburg i. Br.: Herder\, 2016)\, pp. 175-94. Paper Presentations: \n‘Edith Stein’s Understanding of Human Flourishing’\, St. Saviour’s Symposium\, Dominican House of Studies\, Dublin\, Ireland (2020). \n‘Edith Stein’s Understanding of Human Unity and Bodily Formation’\, 5th biennial International Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Philosophy of Edith Stein (IASPES)\, University of Cologne\, Cologne\, Germany (2019). \n‘Edith Stein’s Understanding of the Soul as Form of the Body’\, The International Theological Institute\, Trumau\, Austria (2018). \n‘The Cognition of the Human Individual’\, Catholic University of America\, Washington\, DC\, U.S.A. (2018). \n‘Individuality in Stein Reading Aquinas’\, 3rd biennial International Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Philosophy of Edith Stein (IASPES)\, University of Vienna\, Austria (2016). \n‘Essence in Husserl and Aquinas’\, International Conference: ‘What’s essential can’t be written: Edith Stein’s Life and Thought as reflected in her oeuvre’\, University of Cologne\, Cologne\, Germany (2014). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Director\, Hildebrand Chair for Christian Personalism Elisa GrimiElisa Grimi is the Director of the Hildebrand Chair for Christian Personalaism at the Pontifical Regina Apostolorum University\, the Executive Director of the European Society for Moral Philosophy\, and the Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Philosophical News. \nOn May 30\, 2014\, she received the Paolo Michele Erede Foundation First Prize with a work on “Politics and Network”. She has studied and worked at various universities throughout the world\, in countries including Italy\, Switzerland\, Austria\, Germany\, England\, France\, and the United States. She is the author of numerous publications. \nResearch Areas: \nEthics\, Moral Philosophy\, Philosophy of Religion\, Analytic Philosophy \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSelect Bibliography\n\nD. von Hildebrand. L’arte del vivere. Introduction by E. Grimi. Preface by J.F. Crosby. Morcelliana\, 2022. \nD. von Hildebrand. Mozart\, Schubert\, Beethoven. Afterword by E. Grimi. Abscondita\, 2022. \nE. Grimi. Epistemologia della morale nel pensiero di Dietrich von Hildebrand. Con un saggio di Dietrich von Hildebrand “La detronizzazione della verità.” Mimesis\, 2020. \nE Grimi\, “Ritorno a Dio. Bonaventura e von Hildebrand”. Vivens Homo\, 31/2\, Dehoniane\, Bologna. \nE. Grimi (ed.). Romano Guardini\, modernità e post-modernità. Stamen 2nd ed. 2020. \nE. Grimi (ed.). Virtue Ethics. Retrospect and Prospect. Springer\, 2019. \nE. Grimi – L. Di Donato. Metaphysics of Human Rights 1948–2018: On the Occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the UDHR . Vernon Press\, 2019. \nE. Grimi (ed.). “Dietrich von Hildebrand and Christian Personalism”. Philosophical News\, N. 16\, July 2018\, Mimesis International\, Milan-London. \nE. Grimi. G.E.M. Anscombe. Guida alla lettura di Intention. Carocci\, 2018. \nE. Grimi (ed.). Dossier La philosophie de l’humilité. Recherches Philosophiques\, ICT\, 2017. \nE. Grimi – R. Brague. Contro il cristianismo e l’umanismo. Il perdono dell’Occidente. Cantagalli\, 2016. \nE. Grimi (ed.). Tradition as the Future for Innovation. Cambridge Scholars Publishing\, 2015. \nE. Grimi. G.E.M. Anscombe: The Dragon Lady. Edizioni Cantagalli\, 2014. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Aaron PrestonAaron Preston is a Professor of Philosophy at Valparaiso University in Indiana.  He first encountered philosophy as a sophomore at the University of Southern California\, in a course taught by the late Dallas Willard\, an acclaimed Husserl scholar and writer on Christian spiritual formation.  The experience was so profound that Aaron switched one of his majors to philosophy\, and took as many additional courses with Willard as he possibly could.  After earning a B.A. in Classics and Philosophy\, Aaron studied Systematic Theology at the University of Edinburgh (M.Th.) before returning to USC to take his doctorate in Philosophy under Willard’s supervision.  He has since had a hand in producing three books – one as author\, one as co-author\, and one as editor – and he has written numerous articles and book chapters on a wide range of topics.  He is best known as a historian and critic of analytic philosophy\, but most of his work relates\, in one way or another\, to what Dallas Willard dubbed “the disappearance of moral knowledge”:  a massive cultural shift\, occuring in the 20th century\, in which leading Western institutions ceased to treat morality as a fit subject for knowledge\, and consequently ceased to operate on a basis of presumed moral knowledge – with grave consequences for society.  Around 2015\, Aaron studied the philosophy of Personalism for the first time.  Given its connection to the campaigns for Human Rights in Europe and Civil Rights in the United States\, he immediately saw Personalism as a promising antidote to the disappearance of moral knowledge.  He has since been on a mission to rekindle interest in Personalism\, both among academic philosophers (outside of Catholic circles\, it has been almost completely forgotten)\, and among nonacademics who are concerned about matters of political polarization and matters of social justice. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Walter Hopp\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBoston University \nProfessor of Philosophy \n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Associated ScholarHrvoje Vargić\n\n\n\nHrvoje holds a BA in Business and MA in Economics from the University of Zagreb. He also holds a second BA and MA in Philosophy\, also from the same University. Currently he is pursuing the PhD in Philosophy at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin\, where he is preparing a dissertation on Dietrich von Hildebrand’s political philosophy. He is also working as Director of Partnerships for World Youth Alliance Foundation based in New York\, an organization with more than 1 million members worldwide\, committed to promote human dignity\, solidarity and right to life in policy\, education and culture. In the past he worked as a business consultant. He is an author of the book Amoris Laetitia: Faithfulness or Break? From Wojtyła to Pope Francis and co-author of The Textbook of Catholic Religious Education for the 2nd Grade of High School in Croatia. He published articles in peer-reviewed journals on political philosophy\, bioethics and philosophy of the human person. He is happily married and has one child. \n\n\n\n\nJohn Paul II Catholic University in Lublin \nDoctoral Student \nResearch Areas: \nPolitical Philosophy\, Ethics\, Bioethics\, Philosophy of the Human Person\, Phenomenology \n\nMore about Hrvoje Vargic\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSelect Bibliography\n\nDžeba\, Ivo\, Mario Milovac\, Hrvoje Vargić\, and Šime Zupčić. Dođi i vidi 2\, Udžbenik katoličkoga vjeronauka za 2. razred srednjih škola [Come and see 2\, The Textbook of Catholic Religious Education for the 2nd Grade of High School]. Zagreb: Salesiana\, 2019. \nHildebrand\, Dietrich von\, trans. Vargić\, Hrvoje. Metafizika zajedince. Istraživanje o biti i vrijednosti zajednice [Metaphysik der Gemeinschaft\, Untersuchungen über Wesen und Wert der Gemeinschaft. Regensburg: Verlag Josef Habbel\, 1955.] \nPavlović\, Anto\, Vargić\, Hrvoje. “Apsolut uvijek ostaje apsolutni misterij [The Absolute Always Remains an Absolute Mystery].” Obnovljeni Život 71\, no. 1 (2016): 7–21. \nVargić\, Hrvoje. “Affirmation of Different Forms of Individual Subjectivity in Karol Wojtyła and Dietrich von Hildebrand.” Quaestiones Disputatae 10\, no. 2 (Spring 2020). \n———. Amoris laetitia: Vjernost ili lom? Od Wojtyłe do pape Franje [Amoris Laetitia: Faithfulness or Break? From Wojtyła to Pope Francis]. Zagreb: Salesiana\, 2019. \n———. “Etičke dileme na kraju života i zaštita priziva savjesti liječnika [Ethical Dilemmas at the End of Life and Protection of Conscience Clauses of Medical Professionals]” (Bioetički principi u palijativnoj medicini\, Strmec\, Croatia\, 2019). \n———. “Ljudsko dostojanstvo i eutanazija [Human Dignity and Euthanasia]” (Godišnji kongres logoterapije 2019\, Zagreb\, Croatia\, 2019). \n———. “Od iskustva prema stvarima u sebi: Rasprava o metodi u filozofiji [From Experience to Things in Themselves: Discourse on the Method in Philosophy].” Rectorate of the University of Zagreb\, 2017. \n———. “Should Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide Be Legal? Addressing Key Arguments and Analysing the Consequences of Legalization.” Disputatio Philosophica\, 20\, no. 1 (2018): 45–76. \nWolfe\, Nadja\, and Hrvoje Vargić. “White Paper on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide.” World Youth Alliance Publications\, 2019. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alex Plato\n\n\n\nDr. Alex M. Plato is an Assistant Professor at Franciscan University of Steubenville and resides with his wife and children in the city of Steubenville\, Ohio. He was born\, just eleven minutes after his twin brother\, on January 9th\, 1979 in Lakeview\, Oregon\, an idyllic town with more cattle than people. \nDr. Plato received a Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies summa cum laude from Corban University (then Western Baptist College) in 2002. His interdisciplinary studies included several areas of concentration: music\, theology\, philosophy\, literature\, and education. \n\n\n\n\nFranciscan University of Steubenville \nAssistant Professor of Philosophy \nQuaestiones Disputatae \nGeneral Editor \n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nSchedule\nThe seminar commences with an opening dinner on June 27th and participants depart on the morning of July 2nd.  \nTuesday\, June 28th\n9:00-10:10am: The Readiness to Change & Responsibility \nPanelists: Maria Wolter\, Jim Beauregard\, & Mark Spencer   \n10:20-11:40am: Reverence and Humility \nPanelists: Elisa Grimi\, Beth Rath\, and John F. Crosby \n2:00-3:10pm: Faithfulness \nPanelists: Elizabeth Shaw\, Hrvoje Vargic\, and Martin Cajthaml \nWednesday\, June 29th\n9:00-10:10am: Recollection & Contemplation \nPanelists: Mark Spencer\, Jim Beauregard\, and Dan Sheffler \n10:20-11:40am: Confidence in God \nPanelists: Beth Rath\, Rob McNamara\, and Elisa Grimi \n2:00-3:10pm: Striving for Perfection & the Formative Power of the Liturgy \nPanelists: Maria Wolter\, Matt Breuninger\, and Fr. James Brent\, O.P. \nThursday\, June 30th\n9:00-10:10am: Classical Figures (Plato & Augustine) \nPanelists: Mark Spencer\, Dan Sheffler\, and Martin Cajthaml \n10:20-11:40am: Catholic figures (St. Francis of Assisi\, St. Edith Stein\, Dietrich von  \nHildebrand) \nPanelists: Alex Plato\, Rob McNamara\, and John Henry Crosby \n2:00-3:10pm: Dallas Willard \nPanelists: Aaron Preston and Walter Hopp \nFriday\, July 1st\n9:00-10:10am: Universal Call to Holiness \nPanelists: Christopher Haley\, Hrvoje Vargic\, and John F. Crosby \n10:20-11:40am: Continuing Conversion \nPanelists: Matt Breuninger\, Fr. James Brent\, O.P.\, and Elizabeth Shaw \nThe Application Process\nThe seminar is open to anyone who wishes to explore the nature and significance of character\, virtue\, integrity\, and authenticity\, including especially: \n\nUndergraduate and graduate students\nUniversity and high school professors \nArtists\, writers\, musicians\, and architects \nTeachers\, educators\, and administrators \nSeminarians and clergy \n\nThe application process is based on interest but subject to space limitations. \nThe application window ends on May 8. \nYou may apply online below. The application contains two short essays (300 words max): \n(1) How do you expect the Hildebrand Seminar to effect your life and work when you return home? \n(2) Read this excerpt from Transformation in Christ and comment on the meaning of “Christian readiness to change.” \nWe encourage faculty to nominate students to attend. Nominations will serve in lieu of letters of recommendation.  \n\nSubmit a Nomination\nSubmit an Application\n\n\n\n\n\nRoom\, Board\, and Travel\n\nThe seminar will be held on the campus of Franciscan University of Steubenville\, where participants will be lodged in university housing. Professional participants also have the option of staying at the Franciscan Square Inn at their own expense (there is a discounted seminar rate available). Participants will have access to the university library\, internet\, and other basic amenities. All costs for room and board are included in the seminar fee. \nTravel to and from Pittsburgh International Airport will be provided. Parking will be available on campus for those who drive. \n\n\n\n\n\nCosts & Scholarship Opportunities\n\nThe fee covers room\, board\, and reading materials for the length of the seminar. Attendees are asked to pursue all possible funding sources as fees play a critical role in making the seminars possible. Attendees whose participation is contingent on financial support may request a scholarship when applying. To be considered for a scholarship\, applicants must submit a letter of recommendation or receive a nomination. \nStudent: $550 \nProfessional (dormitory housing): $1\,500 \nProfessional (no dormitory housing; attendee covers hotel accommodations at the special seminar rate of $129/night): $1\,250 \nSpecial rate for Franciscan University of Steubenville students: $199 (with housing) / $99 (without housing). \n\n\n\n\n\nSponsor the Summer Seminar\n\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nReady to Apply? \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n \n \n 2022 Summer Seminar ApplicationReadiness to Change: Conversion & the Christian Life\n\n \n Sorry\, this form is not available. 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