BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Hildebrand Project - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH 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: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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260409T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260409T140000 DTSTAMP:20260420T042117 CREATED:20260220T213855Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260318T190543Z UID:5081-1775739600-1775743200@hildebrandproject.org SUMMARY:The Art of Living DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\n\n\n\nApril 9\, 16\, 23\, and 30 \n\n\n\n\nA four-week reading group through The Art of Living with with Catherine Yanko.\n\n\n\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Thursday afternoons in April (April 9\, 16\, 23\, & 30) from 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT. \n\n\n\n\n\nJoin the Waitlist\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Text\n\n\n\nA book of everyday ethics by a man whom Pope St. John Paul II called “one of the great ethicists of the twentieth century\,” The Art of Living is Dietrich von Hildebrand’s essential guide to the moral life. \n\n\n\nIn just over one hundred pages\, Dietrich von Hildebrand\, with his wife Alice\, presents a distinctive view of the virtuous life that begins with reverence\, “the mother of all virtues\,” and includes chapters on “Faithfulness\,” “Goodness\,” “Hope\,” “The Human Heart\,” and many others. \n\n\n\nThe essays that make up this book began as a popular series of radio lectures in 1930s Germany\, and their conversational tone comes through in this new edition\, which maintains Alice von Hildebrand’s original translation\, and updates this beloved work for a new generation of readers. \n\n\n\nThe Art of Living promises to provide clarity\, hope\, and fresh insights for those seeking to live life more fully\, faithfully\, and beautifully. \n\n\n\nFormat\n\n\n\nThe meeting will be conducted live in Zoom. Links for the session will be sent out ahead of time. \n\n\n\nTo allow for rich discussion\, the group is limited in size to a maximum of 20 participants. Once the group is full\, additional registrations will be placed on a waitlist. \n\n\n\nAll participants are expected to have a copy of the text and to come prepared to each session having done the weekly reading (15-45 pages per week). The weekly reading schedule will be emailed to you. \n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\nCatherine Yanko is an Assistant Professor of Theology at Belmont Abbey College. Catherine was first introduced to Dietrich von Hildebrand as an undergraduate Student Fellow of the Hildebrand Project. She is completing her doctoral studies at the Catholic University of America where she studied Moral Theology/Ethics and wrote her dissertation on the topic of human freedom and self-realization. Her main interests are in theological/philosophical anthropology\, action and virtue theory\, post-conciliar moral theology\, and fundamental moral theology.  \n\n\n\n\nCosts\n\n\n\nReading groups are free to attend. \n\n\n\nIf you are able\, we invite you to make a donation to help defray the costs of organizing (reading groups cost the Hildebrand Project ~$900 for a four-week group). We are committed to making reading groups accessible to all; therefore\, participation is not contingent on a donation. \n\n\n\nYour gift support this reading group\, our publications\, web resources\, and other events\, all of which contribute to bringing the vital\, life-giving witness of personalist philosophy into new and uncertain times. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLevel: \n\n\n\nSuitable for those at any level of familiarity with Hildebrand. \n\n\n\n\n\nTime:\n\n\n\n1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT \n\n\n\n\n\nReading:\n\n\n\nWeek 1: Chapter 1Week 2: Chapter 2 – 4Week 3: Chapters 5 – 7Week 4: Chapters 8 – 9 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin the Waitlist URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/art-of-living-261/ CATEGORIES:Reading Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hildebrandproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/2560px-Winslow_Homer_-_The_Ranger_Adirondacks.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260408T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260408T130000 DTSTAMP:20260420T042117 CREATED:20251209T205628Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260319T214426Z UID:4952-1775649600-1775653200@hildebrandproject.org SUMMARY:Ethics DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\n\n\n\nApril 8\, 15\, 22\, and 29\, 2026 \n\n\n\n\nA four-week reading group through Ethics with Martin Cajthaml\n\n\n\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Wednesday afternoons (April 8\, 15\, 22\, and 29\, 2026) from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin the waitlist\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Text\n\n\n\nDietrich von Hildebrand offers here the most nuanced version we have of a value-based ethics\, building on the ethics of Max Scheler\, but going far beyond it. On this basis he develops his signature concept of value-response\, wherein a person gives value its due\, along with his signature concept of the transcendence of the person in value-response. He re-thinks virtue theory on the basis of his value philosophy\, and in doing so he places virtue at the center of his ethics long before the revival of virtue theory in Anglo-American thought. \n\n\n\nFormat\n\n\n\nThe meeting will be conducted live in Zoom. Links for the session will be sent out ahead of time. \n\n\n\nTo allow for rich discussion\, the group is limited in size to a maximum of 20 participants. Once the group is full\, additional registrations will be placed on a waitlist. \n\n\n\nAll participants are expected to have a copy of the text and to come prepared to each session having done the weekly reading (15-45 pages per week). The weekly reading schedule will be e-mailed to you. \n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\n\nMartin Cajthaml\, Associated Scholar\n\n\n\n\n\nMartin Cajthaml studied philosophy at the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University in Prague from 1991-1993. He went on to study philosophy and psychology at the International Academy of Philosophy in the Principality of Lichtenstein (IAP). In 2000\, he earned his PhD in philosophy at the IAP with the dissertation Kritik des Relativismus. In 2000-2007 he worked as assistant-professor at the IAP. 2007-2011 he worked as assistant-professor at the Department of Philosophy and Patrology of Sts Cyril and Methodius Faculty of Theology of Palacký University Olomouc. Since his Habilitation at the Faculty of Arts of the Palacký University in 2011\, he is the head of the Department of Philosophy and Patrology and an associate professor. \n\n\n\n\n\nCosts\n\n\n\nReading groups are free to attend. \n\n\n\nIf you are able\, we invite you to make a donation to help defray the costs of organizing (reading groups cost the Hildebrand Project ~$900 for a four-week group). We are committed to making reading groups accessible to all; therefore\, participation is not contingent on a donation. \n\n\n\nYour gift support this reading group\, our publications\, web resources\, and other events\, all of which contribute to bringing the vital\, life-giving witness of personalist philosophy into new and uncertain times. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLevel: \n\n\n\nSuitable for those with some philosophical background. \n\n\n\n\n\nReadings:\n\n\n\nWeek 1: Ch 1 pp 13-47Week 2: Ch 1 pp 47-73Week 3: Ch 2Week 4: Ch 6 & 9*All from Ethics \n\n\n\n\n\nTime:\n\n\n\n12:00 PM – 1:00 PM ET \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin the Waitlist URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/ethics-2/ CATEGORIES:Ethics,Reading Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260304T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260304T170000 DTSTAMP:20260420T042117 CREATED:20251208T200218Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260212T172829Z UID:4948-1772640000-1772643600@hildebrandproject.org SUMMARY:Graven Images: Substitutes for True Morality DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\n\n\n\nMarch 4\, 11\, 18\, and 25 \n\n\n\n\nA four-week reading group through Graven Images with Jim Beauregard.\n\n\n\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Wednesday afternoons (March 4\, 11\, 18 and 25) from 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM ET. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin the waitlist\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Text\n\n\n\nDietrich von Hildebrand provides a uniquely in-depth and astute analysis of the many ways we substitute false idols (the “graven images”) for true Christian morality. This is not a simple book on the differences between good and evil; most people do not replace true morality with pure evil\, but with some other “extramoral” good\, like “respectability” or “honor.” Hildebrand guides us through these false alternatives\, helping to show both what is good in them\, but also where they fall short of the uniqueness of true Christian morality. \n\n\n\nFormat\n\n\n\nThe meeting will be conducted live in Zoom. Links for the session will be sent out ahead of time. \n\n\n\nTo allow for rich discussion\, the group is limited in size to a maximum of 20 participants. Once the group is full\, additional registrations will be placed on a waitlist. \n\n\n\nAll participants are expected to have a copy of the text and to come prepared to each session having done the weekly reading (15-45 pages per week). The weekly reading schedule will be e-mailed to you. \n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\n\nJim Beauregard\, Associated Scholar\n\n\n\n\n\nJames Beauregard\, PhD is a clinical neuropsychologist who is also currently working on a PhD\, in philosophy at the University of Anáhuac\, where his doctoral dissertation focuses on the aesthetics of Dietrich von Hildebrand. He has taught in doctoral and master’s level psychology programs (Biological Bases of Behavior\, Neuropsychology\, Healthcare Ethics\, Educational Neuroscience and Aging). His research interests are in the fields of neuroethics and personalist philosophy\, including the intersection of these two areas as they impact our understandings of personhood. He is a member of the International Neuroethics Society\, the Spanish Personalist Association and the International Conference on Persons (where he serves on the board of directors). He has presented on personalism in the United States\, Europe and Central America. His recent publications includePhilosophical Neuroethics: A Personalist Approach\, Vol. 1\, Foundations and Philosophical Neuroethics\, Vol. 2: Practical Neuroethics. His interest in personalist thought was sparked early in his college days when he first read Karol Wojtyla/Pope John Paul II’s The Acting Person and Redemptor Hominis. \n\n\n\n\n\nCosts\n\n\n\nReading groups are free to attend. \n\n\n\nIf you are able\, we invite you to make a donation to help defray the costs of organizing (reading groups cost the Hildebrand Project ~$900 for a four-week group). We are committed to making reading groups accessible to all; therefore\, participation is not contingent on a donation. \n\n\n\nYour gift support this reading group\, our publications\, web resources\, and other events\, all of which contribute to bringing the vital\, life-giving witness of personalist philosophy into new and uncertain times. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLevel: \n\n\n\nSuitable for those with some philosophical background. \n\n\n\n\n\nReadings:\n\n\n\nWeek 1: Chapter 11\, “Christian Morality”Week 2: Chapter 1\, “The Nature of the Substitutes” & Chapter 2\, “Substitutes and Other Moral Deformations”Week 3: Chapter 3\, “Survey of the Main Substitutes”Week 4: Chapter 4\, “Naive and Heretic Substitutes” & Chapter 5\, “Extramoral Values” \n\n\n\n\n\nTime:\n\n\n\n4:00 PM – 5:00 PM ET \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin the Waitlist URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/graven-images-substitutes-for-true-morality/ CATEGORIES:Reading Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260203T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260203T200000 DTSTAMP:20260420T042117 CREATED:20251208T195203Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251224T160518Z UID:4944-1770145200-1770148800@hildebrandproject.org SUMMARY:The Heart DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\n\n\n\nFebruary 3\, 10\, 17\, and 24 \n\n\n\n\nA four-week reading group through The Heart with Maria Fedoryka.\n\n\n\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Tuesday evenings (February 3\, 10\, 17\, and 24) from 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM ET. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin the Waitlist\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Text\n\n\n\nIn The Heart\, Hildebrand is concerned rehabilitating the affective life of the human person. He thinks that for too long philosophers have held it in suspicion and thought of it as much inferior to the intellect and will\, whereas in reality the heart\, the center of affectivity\, is just important a center of personal life as intellect and will. Hildebrand develops the idea that affectivity\, rather than tending away from an objective relation to things\, is in fact necessary for a fully objective relation to the world. Hildebrand also developed the important idea that the heart is “in many respects is more the real self of the person than his intellect or will.” The second half of The Heart makes the philosophical analysis fruitful for our understanding of the affectivity of the God-Man. Here readers will not only find important contributions to theology and spirituality but also an illuminating re-reading of familiar Scriptural passages. \n\n\n\nFormat\n\n\n\nThe meeting will be conducted live in Zoom. Links for the session will be sent out ahead of time. \n\n\n\nTo allow for rich discussion\, the group is limited in size to a maximum of 20 participants. Once the group is full\, additional registrations will be placed on a waitlist. \n\n\n\nAll participants are expected to have a copy of the text and to come prepared to each session having done the weekly reading (15-45 pages per week). The weekly reading schedule will be e-mailed to you. \n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Maria Fedoryka lectures and publishes in both academic and popular fora in the field of the philosophy of love\, examining issues spanning from the centrality of love in the being of God\, to its role at the center of creation\, to its meaning for marriage\, family\, and sexuality. Having been captivated by the writings of Dietrich von Hildebrand as a teenager and deeply drawn to his phenomenological and personalist philosophy\, she pursued her studies under Josef Seifert and John Crosby at the International Academy of Philosophy. Among her scholarly writings are an analysis of Dietrich von Hildebrand’s philosophy of marital intimacy and procreation titled Finis superabundant Operis: Refining an Ancient Cause for Understanding the Spousal Act in the ACPQ\, and “‘God is Love’”: Personal Plurality as the Completion of Aristotle’s Notion of Substance and Love as the Absolute Ground of the Divine Being” in the Proceedings of the ACPA. Among her popular publications are the booklet The Special Gift of Women for God\, the Family and the World published by the Catholic Truth Society in England. She is currently working on an article comparing Hildebrand’s and Aquinas’s philosophy of affectivity\, as well as an article on Hildebrand’s theory of motivation as the key to understanding deliberate moral wrongdoing. \n\n\n\n\n\nCosts\n\n\n\nReading groups are free to attend. \n\n\n\nIf you are able\, we invite you to make a donation to help defray the costs of organizing (reading groups cost the Hildebrand Project ~$900 for a four-week group). We are committed to making reading groups accessible to all; therefore\, participation is not contingent on a donation. \n\n\n\nYour gift support this reading group\, our publications\, web resources\, and other events\, all of which contribute to bringing the vital\, life-giving witness of personalist philosophy into new and uncertain times. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLevel: \n\n\n\nSuitable for those with some philosophical background. \n\n\n\n\n\nReadings:\n\n\n\nWeek 1: Forthcoming \n\n\n\n\n\nTime:\n\n\n\n7:00 PM – 8:00 PM ET \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin the Waitlist URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/the-heart/ CATEGORIES:Reading Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260108T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260108T180000 DTSTAMP:20260420T042117 CREATED:20251208T192100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260102T145044Z UID:4943-1767891600-1767895200@hildebrandproject.org SUMMARY:Liturgy & Personality DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\n\n\n\nJanuary 8\, 15\, 22\, and 29 \n\n\n\n\nA four-week reading group through Liturgy & Personality with DT Sheffler.\n\n\n\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Thursdays at 5:00pm EST. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin the Waitlist\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Text\n\n\n\nA precursor to the “Liturgical Movement” of the twentieth century\, Dietrich von Hildebrand’s Liturgy and Personality is an awe-filled appreciation of Mass and its role in personal formation. Written by a philosopher who had recently converted to Catholicism\, the book awakens us to see with fresh eyes the true beauty of the liturgy. \n\n\n\nFormat\n\n\n\nThe meeting will be conducted live in Zoom. Links for the session will be sent out ahead of time. \n\n\n\nTo allow for rich discussion\, the group is limited in size to a maximum of 20 participants. Once the group is full\, additional registrations will be placed on a waitlist. \n\n\n\nAll participants are expected to have a copy of the text and to come prepared to each session having done the weekly reading (15-45 pages per week). The weekly reading schedule will be e-mailed to you. \n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDT Sheffler is a philosopher who specializes in the history of the concept of the person. He was profoundly touched by reading Martin Buber’s I and Thou as a teenager and\, a few years later\, Christian personalists\, especially Dietrich von Hildebrand and Karol Wojtyła. This combined with a passionate interest in Ancient philosophy and patristic thought to produce an investigation into the origins of personalism and the foundations for the insights achieved in the twentieth century. This led to doctoral work on Plato’s conception of the self and the soul as a way to understand the pre-Christian background of early Christian thought. He has also continued his research of personalism\, especially the thought of Dietrich von Hildebrand and has participated in the Hildebrand Project in various ways since 2015. Dan lives in Louisville with his wife and three children where he teaches philosophy at Memoria College. \n\n\n\nDT Sheffler is an Associated Scholar at the Hildebrand Project and author of the book\, Plato and Christian Personalism (Hildebrand Press\, 2025). \n\n\n\n\n\nCosts\n\n\n\nReading groups are free to attend. \n\n\n\nIf you are able\, we invite you to make a donation to help defray the costs of organizing (reading groups cost the Hildebrand Project ~$900 for a four-week group). We are committed to making reading groups accessible to all; therefore\, participation is not contingent on a donation. \n\n\n\nYour gift support this reading group\, our publications\, web resources\, and other events\, all of which contribute to bringing the vital\, life-giving witness of personalist philosophy into new and uncertain times. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLevel: \n\n\n\nSuitable for beginner to intermediate: primarily discussion. \n\n\n\n\n\nReadings:\n\n\n\nWeek 1: Front Matter\, Chapters 1–3Week 2: Chapters 4–6Week 3: Chapters 7–8Week 4: Chapters 9–11\, Afterward \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nTime:\n\n\n\n\n5:00pm Eastern Standard Time\n\n\n\nDuration: One Hour\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin the Waitlist URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/liturgy-personality/ CATEGORIES:Reading Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hildebrandproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Beato_angelico_predella_della_pala_di_fiesole_02.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241107T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241107T130000 DTSTAMP:20260420T042117 CREATED:20241014T180727Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241021T191618Z UID:4630-1730980800-1730984400@hildebrandproject.org SUMMARY:The Roots of Moral Evil Book Launch DESCRIPTION:Join the Hildebrand Project on Thursday\, November 7\, at 12 PM ET for this virtual book launch for Dietrich von Hildebrand’s newly-discovered\, previously unpublished work\, The Roots of Moral Evil\, published by Hildebrand Press. \n\n\n\nThis work was discovered and edited by Dr. Martin Cajthaml\, a Hildebrand Project Associated Scholar. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for this event\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Cajthaml will be joined by three distinguished colleagues to discuss this monumental discovery and the work by Dietrich von Hildebrand. \n\n\n\nDr. Mark Spencer | University of St. Thomas – Minnesota \n\n\n\nDr. John F. Crosby | Franciscan University of Steubenville \n\n\n\nChristopher Haley | Hildebrand Project \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Associated ScholarMartin Cajthaml \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Academic AdvisorMark K. Spencer \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n John F. Crosby \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Vice President & PublisherChristopher T. Haley \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Associated ScholarMartin Cajthaml\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\n\nPalacký University Olomouc \n\n\n\nAssociate Professor of Philosophy \n\n\n\nResearch Areas: \n\n\n\nPhilosophical Ethics; Intellectual and Spiritual Roots of European Culture; Value Theory \n\n\n\n\nMore about Martin Cajthaml\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSelect Bibliography\nCajthaml\, M.\, Vohánka V. The Moral Philosophy of Dietrich von Hildebrand . Washington: Catholic University of America Press\, 2019. \n\n\n\nCajthaml\, M. “Dietrich von Hildebrand’s Moral Epistemology.” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 92\, no. 4 (2018): 615-640 \n\n\n\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. \n\n\n\nCajthaml\, M. “Von Hildebrand’s Concept of Value.” Studia Neoaristotelica 15\, no. 1 (2018): 95-130. \n\n\n\nCajthaml\, M. “Love as a Value Response. Von Hildebrand´s Philosophy of Love.” Reflexe 39 (2010): 19-33. \n\n\n\nCajthaml\, M. “Moral Virtue according to von Hildebrand with Respect to Aristotle.” Reflexe 43 (2012)\, 59-78. \n\n\n\nCajthaml\, M. “The Moral Value of Emotions in Respect to Aristotle\, Kant\, and von Hildebrand.” Studia Neoaristotelica 12\, no. 3 (2015): 5-25. \n\n\n\nCajthaml\, M. “Value Blindness according to von Hildebrand.” Studia Neoaristotelica 2 (Series bohemoslovaca)\, no. 5/3 (2017): 39-67. \n\n\n\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 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 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 Vice President & PublisherChristopher T. Haley\nChristopher 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. \n\n\n\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. \n\n\n\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\n\nEach speaker will highlight an aspect of the book\, followed by Q&A amongst the panelists and with the online audience. \n\n\n\nThe event is open to anyone. Please feel free to invite your friends and colleagues. \n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for this event URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/the-roots-of-moral-evil-book-launch-event/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://hildebrandproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/banner-for-site.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241030T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241030T200000 DTSTAMP:20260420T042117 CREATED:20240910T200354Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240910T200455Z UID:4606-1730314800-1730318400@hildebrandproject.org SUMMARY:Essays on Woman DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\n \nOctober 30\, November 6\, 13\, 20 \n \n\n\n\nA four-week reading group through Essays on Woman by Edith Stein with Dr. William Tullius.\n \nThe group will meet over Zoom on Wednesdays (October 30\, November 6\, 13\, 20) at 7:00 – 8:00 PM ET. \n\n\n \n\n\n \n\nRegister Now\n\n \nAbout the Text\n \nEdith Stein’s writings on woman are the fruit of both reflection and debate with other leaders of the Catholic feminist movement in German-speaking countries between the World Wars. This second revised edition of Essays on Woman includes textual corrections\, important new supplementary data\, and previously unavailable material on the spirituality of the lay and religious woman. These essays crystalize long hours of experience teaching in the classroom and on the speaker’s platform in the pursuit of fulfilling roles for women in all walks of life. \n \nFormat\n \nThe meeting will be conducted live in Zoom. Links for the session will be sent out ahead of time. \n \nTo allow for rich discussion\, the group is limited in size to a maximum of 20 participants. Once the group is full\, additional registrations will be placed on a waitlist. \n \nAll participants are expected to have a copy of the text and to come prepared to each session having done the weekly reading (15-45+ pages per week). The weekly reading schedule will be e-mailed to you. \n \nModerator\n \n\n\n\n\n \n\nWilliam Tullius holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the New School for Social Research and is currently an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at American Public University System. His main areas of research revolve around the development of a phenomenological ethical theory through the study of such phenomenological thinkers as Edmund Husserl\, Max Scheler\, and Edith Stein. He recently published a book on Edith Stein’s moral philosophy titled Outlines of Morality: On the Ethical Philosophy of Edith Stein\, available now from by Lexington Books as part of the Edith Stein Studies series. \n\n\n \nCosts\n \nReading groups are free to attend. \n \nIf you are able\, we invite you to make a donation to help defray the costs of organizing (reading groups cost the Hildebrand Project ~$900 for a four-week group). We are committed to making reading groups accessible to all; therefore\, participation is not contingent on a donation. \n \nYour gift support this reading group\, our publications\, web resources\, and other events\, all of which contribute to bringing the vital\, life-giving witness of personalist philosophy into new and uncertain times. \n \n\n\n\n\n\nReadings:\n \nA schedule of readings will be sent to each participant. \n\n \n\nTime:\n \n7:00 PM – 8:00 PM \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nRegister Now URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/essays-on-woman-oct-2024/ CATEGORIES:Reading Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://hildebrandproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/edith-stein-large.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241010T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241010T130000 DTSTAMP:20260420T042117 CREATED:20240911T140412Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240911T141937Z UID:4610-1728561600-1728565200@hildebrandproject.org SUMMARY:The Privilege of Being a Woman DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\nOctober 10\, 17\, 24 \n\n\n\nA three-week journey through Alice von Hildebrand’s The Privilege of Being a Woman with with Susanna Spencer.\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Thursdays (October 10\, 17\, 24) from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT. \n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\nAbout the Text\nIn The Privilege of Being a Woman\, Alice von Hildebrand examines the claims of radical feminists like Simone de Beauvoir. She counterposes these claims against the example of the Virgin Mary to reveal what she calls the feminine gifts of purity\, receptivity\, and life-giving nurturing. \nFormat\nThe meeting will be conducted live in Zoom. Links for the session will be sent out ahead of time. \nTo allow for rich discussion\, the group is limited in size to a maximum of 20 participants. Once the group is full\, additional registrations will be placed on a waitlist. \nAll participants are expected to have a copy of the text and to come prepared to each session having done the weekly reading (15-45 pages per week). The weekly reading schedule will be e-mailed to you. \nModerator\n\n\n\n\n\nSusanna Spencer holds an MA in theology and a BA in philosophy and theology from Franciscan University of Steubenville. She is now the Theological and Content Editor for Blessed is She\, as well as a freelance contributor to the National Catholic Register. In addition to writing hundreds of articles and devotions over the years for these and other publications\, she is the author of two books: Seek His Kingdom\, a guided meditative Bible study on the Gospel of St. Matthew; and Listen to Him\, a guided meditative Bible study of the Gospel of St. Mark. She is also the co-author of Rise Up: Shining with Virtue\, a widely read children’s devotional on the virtues. She also has a Substack blog called Living with Lady Philosophy\, which she co-authors with her husband\, Mark. \n\n\nCosts\nReading groups are free to attend. \nIf you are able\, we invite you to make a donation to help defray the costs of organizing (reading groups cost the Hildebrand Project ~$900 for a four-week group). We are committed to making reading groups accessible to all; therefore\, participation is not contingent on a donation. \nYour gift support this reading group\, our publications\, web resources\, and other events\, all of which contribute to bringing the vital\, life-giving witness of personalist philosophy into new and uncertain times. \n\n\n\n\n\nReadings: \nSession 1: Parts 1–2Session 2: Parts 3–5Session 3: Parts 6–9 \n\n\nTime:\n12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/privilege-reading-group-2024/ CATEGORIES:Reading Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://hildebrandproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/privilege-e1677096553849.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241008T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241008T200000 DTSTAMP:20260420T042117 CREATED:20240910T193503Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240910T193505Z UID:4604-1728414000-1728417600@hildebrandproject.org SUMMARY:The Nature of Love DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\nOctober 8\, 15\, 22\, 29 \n\n\n\nA four-week reading group through The Nature of Love with Derek Jeffreys.\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Tuesday evenings (October 8\, 15\, 22\, 29) from 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM ET. \n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\nAbout the Text\nIn this study on love a new side of Dietrich von Hildebrand’s thought emerges. Hildebrand is here led into areas of personal subjectivity that he did not have the occasion to explore in his ethical writings. In a most original way he shows that the desire to be loved by the person whom one loves has nothing to do with selfishness; he shows that this desire to be loved and so to be united with the other person is itself a kind of self-donation to the other. Thus Hildebrand resists the altruism that claims that one is selfless toward the beloved person only by willing the good of the other in such a way as to be indifferent to being loved in return. On the other hand\, he equally resists the claim that the happiness of the one who loves is the primary motive of love. Hildebrand indicates the radically other-centered direction of love\, while avoiding the pitfall of a depersonalized altruism. Thus he does justice both to the extraordinary self-transcendence of love as well as to subjectivity of love. This work constitutes a major contribution to the Christian personalism that Hildebrand represents. \nFormat\nThe meeting will be conducted live in Zoom. Links for the session will be sent out ahead of time. \nTo allow for rich discussion\, the group is limited in size to a maximum of 20 participants. Once the group is full\, additional registrations will be placed on a waitlist. \nAll participants are expected to have a copy of the text and to come prepared to each session having done the weekly reading (15-45 pages per week). The weekly reading schedule will be e-mailed to you. \nModerator\n\n\nDerek Jeffreys\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\nCosts\nReading groups are free to attend. \nIf you are able\, we invite you to make a donation to help defray the costs of organizing (reading groups cost the Hildebrand Project ~$900 for a four-week group). We are committed to making reading groups accessible to all; therefore\, participation is not contingent on a donation. \nYour gift support this reading group\, our publications\, web resources\, and other events\, all of which contribute to bringing the vital\, life-giving witness of personalist philosophy into new and uncertain times. \n\n\n\n\n\nReadings:\nWeek 1: IntroductionWeek 2: Chapter 1Week 3: Chapter 3Week 4: Chapter 6 \n\n\nTime:\n7:00 PM – 8:00 PM ET \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/the-nature-of-love-oct-2024/ CATEGORIES:Reading Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://hildebrandproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/The-Nature-of-Love-Draft-Cover-e1629397636823.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240714T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240719T080000 DTSTAMP:20260420T042117 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\nThe human person only finds the fulfillment of his nature in spiritual contact with other persons\, in union with them—in short: in community. \nDietrich von Hildebrand\, The Metaphysics of Community \n\nImportant Updates\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. \nThe deadline to apply is April 5. \n\nStudent: $650 $400\nProfessional (with dormitory housing): $1\,650 $1000\nProfessional (without dormitory housing): $1\,250 $800\n\n\nSeminar Description\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? \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. \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. \nDownload the flyer for the event here: Summer Seminar 2024 Flyer (pdf) \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\nOnline Summer seminar reminder\n\n\n \n\nSeminar Faculty and Speakers\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\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 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 Spanish Association of PersonalismJuan Manuel BurgosJuan 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.  \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?       \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. \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 FedorykaAve Maria UniversityAssociate Professor of Philosophy \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\n\nSelect Bibliography\n\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“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 \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 \nBook review for Review of Metaphysics of Dietrich von Hildebrand’s Graven Images \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“Human Sexuality: The Battle for the Human Soul” in Mary and the Crisis in the Church\, ed. Roger Nutt. Sapientia Press: 2019 \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“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“Finis Superabundant Operis: Refining an Ancient Cause for Explaining the Conjugal Act” in American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly\, Vol. 90\, no. 3\, 2016\, 477-498 \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 \n \n \n \n Pastor\, Bruderhof CommunitiesCharles E. MooreCharles 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\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\nTikvah Fund \nSenior Director \n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Associated ScholarDerek S. Jefferys\n\n\n\nDerek S. Jeffreys is a professor of Humanities\, Religion and Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin\, Green Bay. He did both his B.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. He has written books on St. John Paul II\, ethics and torture and ethics and solitary confinement. His most recent book is America’s Jails: The Search for Human Dignity in An Age of Mass Incarceration. Jeffreys teaches courses on love\, Thomas Aquinas\, ethics\, ethics and punishment\, evil\, Dante\, Buddhism\, and other topics. For more than a decade he has been involved in jail and prison education\, giving volunteer religion and philosophy lectures to inmates in Wisconsin’s jails and prisons. He is married and proud father of twin boys. \n\n\n\n\nUniversity of Wisconsin\, Green Bay \nProfessor \nResearch Areas: \nPersonalism\, Personalism and Violence\, Personalism and Incarceration \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSelect Bibliography\n\nJeffreys\, Derek S. Defending Human Dignity: John Paul II and Political Realism . Grand\, Rapids\, MI: Brazos Press\, 2004. \nJeffreys\, Derek S. Spirituality and the Ethics of Torture. New York\, NY: Palgrave Macmillan\, 2009. \nJeffreys\, Derek S. Spirituality in Dark Places: The Ethics of Solitary Confinement. New York\, NY: Palgrave Macmillan\, 2013. \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. \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. \nJeffreys\, Derek S. “Ignoring Thomistic Metaphysics: A Reply to Robert Kraynak\,” Journal of Markets and Morality 7\, no. 2 (October 2004): 527-531. \nJeffreys\, Derek S. “Cruel but not Unusual: Derek Jeffreys on Solitary Confinement\,” Commonweal\, June 13\, 2014: 20-23. \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 \n \n \n \n Houghton UniversityDr. Peter MeilaenderFor 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 TulliusWilliam 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\nFormat\nThe seminar will be a mix of lectures\, panels\, conversations\, and small group discussions. \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. \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\nSchedule\nThe seminar will begin with an opening dinner on July 14. Participants will depart the morning of July 19. \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. \nJuly 15: Beyond Individualism\n\nKeynote: Persons are Meant for Community with Mark K. Spencer\nPanel: Communities in Crisis with Charles Moore\, Maria Fedoryka\, and Derek Jeffreys\nConversation: Intentional Communities in Religious Traditions with Rabbi Mark Gottlieb and Charles Moore\n\nJuly 16: From Collectivism to Solidarity\n\nKeynote: Beyond Individualism & Collectivism – Toward a Personalist Social Philosophy with John F. Crosby\nPanel: Community & Human Flourishing with Charles Moore and Maria Fedoryka\nConversation: Structures of Sin – Solidarity & Co-Responsibility in John Paul II with John F. Crosby and Derek Jeffreys\n\nJuly 17: Building Authentic Community\n\nKeynote: Dietrich von Hildebrand on the Nature of Community with Maria Fedoryka\nPanel: Balancing Local Commitments & Cosmopolitan Principles with Mark Spencer\, Derek Jeffreys\, and William Tullius\nConversation: Personalism and Integralism with Mark Spencer\, John Henry Crosby\, and Peter Meilaender\n\nJuly 18: A Vision for Community\n\nKeynote: Karol Wojtyla on Community by Juan Manuel Burgos\nPanel: How to Know a Person – Practical Tips for Being Communal with John F. Crosby\, William Tullius\, and Derek Jeffreys\nConversation: The Metaphysics of Community with Seminar Faculty\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\nOnline Summer seminar Registration\n\n\n\nApplying for the Seminar\nThe seminar is open to anyone who wishes to explore the nature and significance of the self\, community\, and society\, including especially: \n\nUndergraduate and graduate students\nUniversity and high school professors \nArtists\, writers\, musicians\, and architects \nTeachers\, educators\, and administrators \nLawyers\, government officials\, and community organizers\nSeminarians and clergy \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. \nYou may apply online below. The application contains two short essays (300 words max)\, and you will add your answers there: \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. \nWe encourage faculty to nominate students to attend. Nominations will serve in lieu of letters of recommendation. Please use this form to submit nominations. \nIf you have any questions about the event\, please reach out to Cecilia Cervantes at events@hildebrandproject.org. \n\nSeminar Fee\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\nFive nights in a private room in Franciscan University dormitory housing.\nTransportation to and from Pittsburgh airport\, for those flying in.\nContinental breakfast\, lunch\, and dinner every day of the seminar\, including opening and closing banquets. Snacks and drinks are also provided throughout the day.\nEvening receptions with snacks and beverages.\nA printed seminar reader with readings chosen by our speakers and organizers to deepen your seminar experience. \nFull access to the John Paul II Library at Franciscan University.\nAccess to a fitness center\nInternet Access\n\nThe Summer Seminar fees are: \n\nStudents (enrolled as of application deadline): $650 $400\nProfessionals (All non-students)\n\nWith dormitory housing: $1\,650 $1000\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\nTravel is not covered by the seminar fee\, but transportation to and from Pittsburgh International Airport will be provided to anyone who needs it. \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\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:20240701T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240709T170000 DTSTAMP:20260420T042117 CREATED:20231012T120000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240405T162054Z UID:4174-1719824400-1720544400@hildebrandproject.org SUMMARY:Summer Residency DESCRIPTION:Hildebrand Project Summer ResidencyJuly 1-9\, 2024Franciscan University of Steubenville\nThe deadline for the 2024 Residency has passed. To express interest in the 2025 Residency\, click here. \nThe Hildebrand Project is pleased to announce our sixth annual Residency! \nThe Residency was launched in 2017 to support and expand the academic community devoted to the thought of Dietrich von Hildebrand and the tradition of Christian personalism broadly. We do this by enabling students and scholars to work alongside our Senior Scholars—former students of Dietrich von Hildebrand and/or John Paul II—and Associated Scholars\, who are doing new and important work in personalist scholarship. In this way\, we seek to pass the flame to future generations who will continue to reveal Hildebrand and personalism within the perennial tradition. \n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qx9k-PsT0A\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Residency is an intensive program for advanced students and scholars who are working on MA theses\, Ph.D. dissertations\, habilitations\, books\, chapters\, or scholarly articles principally focused on Hildebrand or in some way substantively engaged with his thought (for example\, a dissertation chapter focused on Hildebrand). We are especially interested in supporting research that has never been publicly presented. \nWe recognize that many universities do not have faculty with expertise on Hildebrand (or other personalists\, too) and that this may prevent some students from writing an MA or dissertation on Hildebrand. The Residency exists to overcome this obstacle. \nThe Residency is not limited to those working exclusively on Hildebrand. We welcome applications from students and scholars working on kindred spirits (like Karol Wojtyla\, Max Scheler\, and Edith Stein)\, on great figures in the tradition (like Aristotle and Aquinas)\, or on any thinker or set of issues\, provided that the work in progress includes Hildebrand as a substantive interlocutor and/or meaningfully engages the personalist or phenomenological tradition. \n \n\n\n\n\n\nResidency Faculty\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n John F. Crosby \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rocco Buttiglione \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Josef Seifert \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Associated ScholarMartin Cajthaml \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 Rocco ButtiglioneA trusted collaborator of Pope St. John Paul II\, and is an authority on his philosophical anthropology. His book Karol Wojtyla: The Thought of the Man who became Pope John Paul II is a fundamental work on the pope’s early philosophy. A member of the Italian Parliament for over two decades\, he serves on the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences and holds the John Paul II Chair for Philosophy and History of European Institutions at the Lateran University in Rome. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Hildebrand Project. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Josef SeifertProfessor Seifert received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Salzburg in 1969 and\, under Professor Robert Spaemann\, his habilitation from the University of Munich (Privatdozent) in 1975. He studied chiefly under Balduin Schwarz\, the most distinguished German former student of Dietrich von Hildebrand\, at the University of Salzburg\, and under Gabriel Marcel in Paris. Already as a child (from age 3 on) he knew Hildebrand personally\, because Seifert’s mother had been a student of Hildebrand in Munich and both of his parents were Hildebrand’s friends. He is the author of many books\, and Europe’s leading student and teacher of Hildebrand’s philosophy. \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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFormat\nThe Residency in Summer 2024 is not the beginning but the culmination of a process beginning in March 2024. Upon being admitted to the Residency and matched with a Senior Scholar or Associated Scholar\, a participant will meet virtually with the scholar and receive initial comments on their work in progress.  \nFor the in-person portion of the program\, the daily weekday schedule will be focused on research and mentorship\, with group discussions of work-in-progress\, mini-discussion colloquia on core personalist texts\,  private consultations with our faculty\, and time for continued study. Professional development sessions will be offered\, with sessions on topics like “The Academic Job Market” and “Dissertation 101.” The schedule will include breaks for personal reflection and prayer. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to Apply\nParticipation in the Residency is competitive\, and by application; with a limited number of seats\, this means we will not be able to accept every application.   \nBefore submitting an application\, applicants are encouraged to share their research project with our Programs Manager\, Cecilia Cervantes\, to ensure the project qualifies for this program. Research proposals are required for admission to the Residency. \nApplications open on October 12\, 2023\, Hildebrand’s and Stein’s birthdays! The application and travel scholarship deadline is February 15\, 2024. Please note a letter of recommendation (in English) is required to be considered for travel scholarships. Letters of recommendation should be sent to events@hildebrandproject.org \nApplication decisions will be communicated by February 23\, 2024\, with accepted attendees confirming their attendance by March 1. Please note that all works-in-progress need to be submitted for initial review and feedback by senior faculty by March 15. Participants will submit their amended drafts by June 1 for distribution for residency-wide review. \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCost to Attend\, Room and Board\, and Travel\n\nThe Residency is free to attend for all accepted candidates. It will be held at the Franciscan University in Steubenville\, OH\, where participants will be lodged in university housing. Dormitory accommodations will include private rooms with dorm restrooms. The Hildebrand Project is unable to provide meals and lodging for participants’ spouses and families. Participants will have access to the university library\, internet\, and other basic amenities. All costs for room and board are included. \nA shuttle to and from the Pittsburgh International Airport will be provided. Parking will be available on campus for those who drive. \nFor those traveling from outside the US\,  the procurement of a visa and current passport is the responsibility of the applicant. The Hildebrand Project is unable to assist in attaining a visiting visa. \n\n\n\n\n\nTravel Scholarship Opportunities\n\nWhile limited scholarships for travel are available\, the Hildebrand Project cannot offer travel scholarships to all applicants. Priority will be given to applicants with a compelling research interest in Hildebrand’s thought. \nScholarship requests are included on the application\, due February 15\, 2024. When applying for travel aid\, please be specific with your request. Please note that a letter of recommendation (in English) is required to be considered for travel scholarships. Letters can be submitted to events@hildebrandproject.org \nFor those traveling from outside the US\, the Hildebrand Project cannot provide support in attaining a visiting visa. The procurement of a visa and current passport is the responsibility of the applicant. URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/summer-residency-2024/ CATEGORIES:Residency ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hildebrandproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/IMG_2570-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240705T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240705T130000 DTSTAMP:20260420T042117 CREATED:20240612T144219Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240612T144221Z UID:4557-1720180800-1720184400@hildebrandproject.org SUMMARY:Ethics – Part 2 DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\nJuly 5\, 12\, 19\, and 26 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA four week reading group through selections of Ethics with Javier Carreño.\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Fridays (July 5\, 12\, 19\, and 26) from 12 PM – 1 PM EDT. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\nAbout the Text\nDietrich von Hildebrand offers here the most nuanced version we have of a value-based ethics\, building on the ethics of Max Scheler\, but going far beyond it. On this basis he develops his signature concept of value-response\, wherein a person gives value its due\, along with his signature concept of the transcendence of the person in value-response. He re-thinks virtue theory on the basis of his value philosophy\, and in doing so he places virtue at the center of his ethics long before the revival of virtue theory in Anglo-American thought. \nFormat\nThe meeting will be conducted live in Zoom. Links for the session will be sent out ahead of time. \nTo allow for rich discussion\, the group is limited in size to a maximum of 20 participants. Once the group is full\, additional registrations will be placed on a waitlist. \nAll participants are expected to have a copy of the text and to come prepared to each session having done the weekly reading (15-45 pages per week). The weekly reading schedule is available on the right-hand sidebar. \nModerator\n\n\n\nJavier Carreño studied Philosophy and English at Dallas\, and Philosophy at Leuven (Belgium)\, where he earned a doctoral degree in 2010. He has written mainly on the imagination and aesthetics – taking Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology as point d’appui. He also maintains an interest in the philosophy of religion\, especially the role of affectivity as a preamble to faith. \nSince 2011\, Dr. Carreño has taught for Franciscan University of Steubenville’s study abroad program located in lower Austria\, where he is an associate professor of philosophy\, and also serve as academic chairman. His teaching comprises both “core” courses in the perennial tradition as well as specialized courses in Literature and Theology. \n\n\nCosts\nReading groups are free to attend. \nIf you are able\, we invite you to make a donation to help defray the costs of organizing (reading groups cost the Hildebrand Project ~$900 for a four-week group). We are committed to making reading groups accessible to all; therefore\, participation is not contingent on a donation. \nYour gift support this reading group\, our publications\, web resources\, and other events\, all of which contribute to bringing the vital\, life-giving witness of personalist philosophy into new and uncertain times. \n\n\n\n\n\nReading\n\nSession 1 -About Freedom Ch. 21 pp. 299-309\, Ch. 23-25 pp. 317-358\nSession 2 – Sources of Moral Goodness Ch. 27-28 pp.361-412\nSession 3 – Problem of Evil I Ch. 30-32 pp. 429-454 \nSession 4 – Problem of Evil II and Christian Ethics Ch. 33-36 pp. 455-489\n\n\n\nTime:\n12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/ethics-reading-group-july-2024/ CATEGORIES:Reading Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hildebrandproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/EDII_RSA_2000_016-001.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240411T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240509T130000 DTSTAMP:20260420T042117 CREATED:20240320T172327Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240320T172328Z UID:4498-1712836800-1715259600@hildebrandproject.org SUMMARY:Ethics – Part 1 DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\nApril 11\, April 18\, April 25\, May 2\, May 9 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA four week reading group through selections of Ethics with Javier Carreño.\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Thursdays (April 11\, April 18\, April 25\, May 2\, May 9) from 12 PM – 1 PM EDT. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\nAbout the Text\nDietrich von Hildebrand offers here the most nuanced version we have of a value-based ethics\, building on the ethics of Max Scheler\, but going far beyond it. On this basis he develops his signature concept of value-response\, wherein a person gives value its due\, along with his signature concept of the transcendence of the person in value-response. He re-thinks virtue theory on the basis of his value philosophy\, and in doing so he places virtue at the center of his ethics long before the revival of virtue theory in Anglo-American thought. \nFormat\nThe meeting will be conducted live in Zoom. Links for the session will be sent out ahead of time. \nTo allow for rich discussion\, the group is limited in size to a maximum of 20 participants. Once the group is full\, additional registrations will be placed on a waitlist. \nAll participants are expected to have a copy of the text and to come prepared to each session having done the weekly reading (15-45 pages per week). The weekly reading schedule is available on the right-hand sidebar. \nModerator\n\n\n\nJavier Carreño studied Philosophy and English at Dallas\, and Philosophy at Leuven (Belgium)\, where he earned a doctoral degree in 2010. He has written mainly on the imagination and aesthetics – taking Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology as point d’appui. He also maintains an interest in the philosophy of religion\, especially the role of affectivity as a preamble to faith. \nSince 2011\, Dr. Carreño has taught for Franciscan University of Steubenville’s study abroad program located in lower Austria\, where he is an associate professor of philosophy\, and also serve as academic chairman. His teaching comprises both “core” courses in the perennial tradition as well as specialized courses in Literature and Theology. \n\n\nCosts\nReading groups are free to attend. \nIf you are able\, we invite you to make a donation to help defray the costs of organizing (reading groups cost the Hildebrand Project ~$900 for a four-week group). We are committed to making reading groups accessible to all; therefore\, participation is not contingent on a donation. \nYour gift support this reading group\, our publications\, web resources\, and other events\, all of which contribute to bringing the vital\, life-giving witness of personalist philosophy into new and uncertain times. \n\n\n\n\n\nReading\nReading list TBA. Will be sent to participants in advance. \n\n\nTime:\n12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/ethics-april-2024/ CATEGORIES:Reading Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hildebrandproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/EDII_RSA_2000_016-001.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240124T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240124T130000 DTSTAMP:20260420T042117 CREATED:20240108T184946Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240108T184947Z UID:3536-1706097600-1706101200@hildebrandproject.org SUMMARY:The Personalism of Edith Stein Book Launch DESCRIPTION:Join the Hildebrand Project on Wednesday\, January 24\, at 12 PM ET for this book launch for Dr. Robert McNamara’s new book\, The Personalism of Edith Stein: A Synthesis of Thomism and Phenomenology\, published by CUA Press. \nDr. McNamara is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Franciscan University of Steubenville and a Hildebrand Project Associated Scholar. \nThis event is being co-sponsored by Catholic University of America Press. \n\n\n\n\nRegister for this event\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. McNamara will be joined by three distinguished professors to discuss his work and the thought of Edith Stein. \nDr. John F. Crosby | Franciscan University of Steubenville \nDr. Mette Lebech | University of Maynooth\, Ireland \nFr. James Dominic Brent | Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at Dominican House of Studies \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Associated ScholarRobert McNamara \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n John F. Crosby \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Maynooth UniversityDr. Mette Lebech \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Associated ScholarFr. James Dominic Brent\, O.P \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 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 Maynooth UniversityDr. Mette LebechMette Lebech holds her degrees from the Universities of Copenhagen\, Louvain-la-neuve and Leuven. She has taught in Maynooth University since 1998 and before that for 3 years at the University of Copenhagen\, where she also was a member of the Centre for Ethics and Law. She has worked principally on the themes of Human Dignity and the Philosophy of Edith Stein and is past founding President of the International Association for the Study of the Philosophy of Edith Stein (IASPES). \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 \nEach speaker will highlight an aspect of the book\, followed by Q&A amongst the panelists and with the online audience. \nThe event is open to anyone. Please feel free to invite your friends and colleagues. \n\n\n\n\nRegister for this event URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/mcnamara-book-release-event/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://hildebrandproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/edith-stein-large.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240117T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240117T150000 DTSTAMP:20260420T042117 CREATED:20230105T152505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240108T205435Z UID:1954-1705500000-1705503600@hildebrandproject.org SUMMARY:The Heart DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\nJanuary 17\, 24\, 31 \n\n\n\nA three-week reading group through The Heart just for clergy with Fr. James Brent\, OP.\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Wednesdays afternoons (January 17\, 24\, 31) from 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET. This group is for clergy and religious\, including those currently in formation. \n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\nAbout the Text\nIn The Heart\, Hildebrand is concerned rehabilitating the affective life of the human person. He thinks that for too long philosophers have held it in suspicion and thought of it as much inferior to the intellect and will\, whereas in reality the heart\, the center of affectivity\, is just important a center of personal life as intellect and will. Hildebrand develops the idea that affectivity\, rather than tending away from an objective relation to things\, is in fact necessary for a fully objective relation to the world. Hildebrand also developed the important idea that the heart is “in many respects is more the real self of the person than his intellect or will.” The second half of The Heart makes the philosophical analysis fruitful for our understanding of the affectivity of the God-Man. Here readers will not only find important contributions to theology and spirituality but also an illuminating re-reading of familiar Scriptural passages. \nFormat\nThe meeting will be conducted live in Zoom. Links for the session will be sent out ahead of time. \nTo allow for rich discussion\, the group is limited in size to a maximum of 20 participants. Once the group is full\, additional registrations will be placed on a waitlist. \nAll participants are expected to have a copy of the text and to come prepared to each session having done the weekly reading (15-45 pages per week). The weekly reading schedule will be e-mailed to you. \nModerator\n\n\n\n\n\nFr. James Dominic Brent\, O.P. was born and raised in Michigan. He pursued his undergraduate and graduate studies in Philosophy and completed his doctorate in Philosophy at Saint Louis University on the epistemic status of Christian beliefs according to Saint Thomas Aquinas. He has articles in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Natural Theology in the Oxford Handbook of Thomas Aquinas on “God’s Knowledge and Will”\, and an article on “Thomas Aquinas” in the Oxford Handbook of the Epistemology of Theology. He earned his STL from the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception\, and was ordained a priest in the same year. He taught in the School of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America from 2010- 2014 and spent the year of 2014-2015 doing full-time itinerant preaching on college campuses across the United States. He now teaches full-time at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception. \n\n\nCosts\nReading groups are free to attend. \nIf you are able\, we invite you to make a donation to help defray the costs of organizing (reading groups cost the Hildebrand Project ~$900 for a four-week group). We are committed to making reading groups accessible to all; therefore\, participation is not contingent on a donation. \nYour gift support this reading group\, our publications\, web resources\, and other events\, all of which contribute to bringing the vital\, life-giving witness of personalist philosophy into new and uncertain times. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLevel: \nSuitable for those with some philosophy background. \n\n\nReadings:\nWeek 1: Part I\, Ch 1 – 3Week 2: Part 1\, Ch 4 – 8Week 3: Parts 2 & 3 \n\n\nTime:\n2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/the-heart-reading-group/ CATEGORIES:Reading Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231115T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231115T200000 DTSTAMP:20260420T042117 CREATED:20230919T163643Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231114T133259Z UID:3508-1700074800-1700078400@hildebrandproject.org SUMMARY:Personalism in the Professions DESCRIPTION:Our culture is hungry for credible Christian witness\, for transformation through beauty\, and for ethical education that will lead to true happiness. That’s why we’re bringing you this series: to show how personalism is not just a set of ideas but a commitment to values that transforms the way we live.  \nJoin us as we examine the complex intersection of values and vocation in conversation with leading professionals in fields such as education\, ministry\, healthcare\, business\, and more. \nThis event will be hosted by Amanda Achtman\, Special Programs Advisor for the Hildebrand Project. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSession I – Educator: Reverence for Truth\nWednesday\, September 27th 7:00 p.m. ET with Dr. John F. Crosby (Franciscan University of Steubenville) and Dr. Maria Fedoryka (Ave Maria University)  \nDietrich von Hildebrand spoke about reverence as “the mother of all moral life” because “the capacity to grasp values\, to affirm them\, and to respond to them\, is the foundation for realizing the moral values of man.” How can Hildebrand’s account of making the right response to values inform the way we teach and learn? \nAccompanying text: “Reverence” chapter from Dietrich von Hildebrand’s book The Art of Living.  \n\nRegister here\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n John F. Crosby \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Maria Fedoryka \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 Maria FedorykaAve Maria UniversityAssociate Professor of Philosophy \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\n\nSelect Bibliography\n\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“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 \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 \nBook review for Review of Metaphysics of Dietrich von Hildebrand’s Graven Images \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“Human Sexuality: The Battle for the Human Soul” in Mary and the Crisis in the Church\, ed. Roger Nutt. Sapientia Press: 2019 \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“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“Finis Superabundant Operis: Refining an Ancient Cause for Explaining the Conjugal Act” in American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly\, Vol. 90\, no. 3\, 2016\, 477-498 \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 \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSession II – Minister: Shepherding and Accompaniment in Grief\nWednesday\, October 18th at 7:00 p.m. ET with Fr. Adam Hertzfeld and Fr. Andrew Fryml \n“Death offers a striking contrast to all that is ungenuine and unnecessary. It has a solitary and authentic grandeur.” Dietrich von Hildebrand penned these reflections at eighty-six years of age\, aware that he was nearing the end of his life. In the face of suffering and death\, what basis do we have for hope? How does hope differ from optimism? What can we do for those who are grieving? \nAccompanying text: “Christian Hope”\, “Christ Transforms Death”\, and “Attaining the Christian View of Death” short chapters from Dietrich von Hildebrand’s book Jaws of Death: Gate of Heaven. \n\nRegister here\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PastorFr. Adam Hertzfeld \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bishop England High School ChaplainFr. Andrew Fryml \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PastorFr. Adam HertzfeldFather Adam Hertzfeld is pastor of Saint Michael the Archangel Parish in Findlay\, Ohio. A 1997 graduate of Franciscan University\, he went on to study for the priesthood at the North American College in Rome. He was ordained in 2002. Fr. Adam earned a Doctorate in Moral Theology from the Pontifical Lateran University (Alfonsian Academy) in 2008. He wrote on a theme in the work of Dietrich von Hildebrand regarding affectivity and religious conversion. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bishop England High School ChaplainFr. Andrew FrymlBorn into a Catholic family in South Carolina\, Fr. Fryml received the call to the priesthood and entered the seminary at twenty years of age. He studied in New Jersey and Texas and was ordained a Roman Catholic Priest in June 2017. Since then\, he has served as a parochial vicar and chaplain of various Catholic high schools and colleges. He has recently begun studies for a Doctorate of Education through the University of St. Thomas. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSession III – Entrepreneur: Building Businesses for Persons\nWednesday\, November 8th at 7:00 p.m. ET with Myles Harrington\, Dr. Andrew Abela\, and John Henry Crosby \nWhat happens when a business owner is motivated not just by profitability but also by a commitment to Personalism and Catholic Social Teaching? Our panel will explore topics like the importance of respect for employee autonomy\, the centrality of community for employee job satisfaction (even in a fully remote company)\, and the benefits of emphasizing human virtue—especially humility—over technical credentials in hiring. The panel will also explore the general appeal of Personalism to a diverse workforce and the extraordinary correlation between financial success and adherence to the foundational principle underlying Catholic Social Teaching: that we are all made the image and likeness of our Creator. \nAccompanying text: Paragraph 35\, taken from Pope St. John Paul II’s Encyclical Letter Centesimus Annus. \n\nRegister here\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Grant Street GroupMyles Harrington \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Catholic University of AmericaAndrew V. Abela \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n President & FounderJohn Henry Crosby \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Grant Street GroupMyles HarringtonMyles Harrington is President and Co-Founder of Grant Street Group\, a government technology company with 400 remote employees that supplies software-as-a-service to state and county government agencies that they use to i) bill\, collect and distribute taxes\, fees\, and fines\, ii) issue permits and municipal licenses\, iii) process driver’s license and automobile title and tag transactions\, and iv) process online payments. Grant Street also hosts online auctions of municipal bonds\, delinquent property taxes\, and deeds. \nMyles received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University and his MBA from Carnegie-Mellon University. For the first 15 years of his professional career\, he was an Investment Banker at both Wall Street and regional firms. In 1995\, he co-founded Grant Street Group. \nFrom the start\, the co-founders were inspired and guided by Catholic Social Teaching\, the Personalism of St. John Paul II and St. Josemaria Escriva’s teachings on the sanctification of ordinary work. These ideals have informed the company culture and resulted in a company-wide spirit of service to colleagues and clients that has generated organic revenue growth averaging 25% over the past 25 years. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Catholic University of AmericaAndrew V. AbelaAndrew Abela is the founding dean of the Busch School of Business and Ordinary Professor of Marketing at The Catholic University of America\, in Washington\, D.C. His research on the integrity of the marketing process\, including marketing ethics\, Catholic Social Doctrine\, and internal communication\, has been published in several academic journals\, including the Journal of Marketing\, the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science\, the Journal of Business Ethics\, and the Journal of Markets & Morality\, and in two books. He is the co-editor of A Catechism for Business\, from Catholic University Press\, and winner of the 2009 Novak Award\, a $10\,000 prize given by the Acton Institute for “significant contributions to the study of the relationship between religion and economic liberty.” \nDr. Abela also provides consulting and training in internal communications to Fortune 100 corporations. Prior to his academic career\, he spent several years in industry as brand manager at Procter & Gamble\, management consultant with McKinsey & Company\, and Managing Director of the Marketing Leadership Council of the Corporate Executive Board. He holds a B.Sc. from the University of Toronto\, an MBA from the Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Switzerland\, and a Ph.D. in Marketing and Ethics from the Darden Business School at the University of Virginia. He and his wife\, Kathleen\, have six children\, two of whom (so far) have graduated from Catholic U. \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\nSession IV – Physician: Treating the Patient as Person\nWednesday\, November 15th at 7:00 p.m. ET\, with Roy Heyne\, MD and Kristin Collier\, MD \nDo doctors have a responsibility to promote the objective good of their patients? We’ve heard the buzzword “patient-centered care”; but what happens when the patient’s good is in conflict with what the patient wants? Join us to go deeper into what it actually means to treat patients as persons. \nAccompanying text: Chapter 9 on “Relativism” from Dietrich von Hildebrand’s Ethics. \n\n\nRegister here\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Medical Director\, THRIVERoy J. Heyne\, MD \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n University of MichiganKristin Collier\, MD \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Medical Director\, THRIVERoy J. Heyne\, MDDr. Heyne has been a practicing\, board-certified pediatrician for the past 45 years\, focusing since 2003 in comprehensive follow-up care of high-risk neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) graduates at Children’s Medical Center Dallas\, serving as Medical Director of the THRIVE Clinic.  He joined the part-time faculty of University of Texas Southwestern (UTSW) Medical School in 1978 and has been full-time academic Professor of Pediatrics in the Neonatal-Perinatal Division since 2003\, involved in clinical research (co-authoring 28 peer-reviewed neurodevelopmental outcomes studies in the NIH NICHD Neonatal Research Network)\, teaching (fellows\, residents\, students)\, and clinical care.   \nHe has had a long-standing interest in medical ethics\, encouraged by his early mentor and life-long friend Dietrich von Hildebrand\, which led to his study of philosophy at the University of Salzburg\, Austria in 1969 and University of Dallas in 1978-80.  He has lectured periodically in medical ethics at University of Dallas and UTSW\, including in the areas or prenatal life and neonatal ethics; and he has been a faculty advisor for the St. Basil the Great Society at UTSW. He is past-President of the Catholic Medical Guild of Dallas and Regional Director\, Education Committee Co-chair\, and Board Member of the national Catholic Medical Association.  He has served as co-founder and vice-President of the Low Birth Weight Development Center since 1992\, which addresses the developmental\, psychosocial and educational needs of high-risk and their parents. His honors include Senior Clinician of the Year (1987)\, Mead Johnson National Pediatric Scholar (1992)\, Top Ten Teacher in Department of Pediatrics (2004)\, 1996 Outstanding Person of the Year Award for Community Service–Knights of Columbus\, 1999 Bishop of Dallas Pro-Life Award for Supportive Services  to mothers and babies.   \nLast\, but not least\, he is blessed to be the husband for fifty years of a wonderful wife who practices pediatrics with him and is mother to their eight very accomplished children (including three physicians\, a lawyer\, a PhD history professor\, two women religious with advanced degrees\, and a talented mother of seven) who have added the further blessing of 24 amazing grandchildren. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n University of MichiganKristin Collier\, MDKristin Collier\, MD\, FACP is an assistant professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor Michigan where she serves as the director of the University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health\, Spirituality and Religion.  She received her medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School and completed her internship\, residency and chief residency at The University of Michigan Hospitals. Her academic interests are in the overlap of spirituality\, religion and medicine and her peer reviewed work has been published in JAMA Internal Medicine\, the Annals of Internal Medicine\, The Journal of General Internal Medicine\, the American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. She also has had writings published in Notre Dame’s Church Life Journal\, Theopolis\, and America Magazine. URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/personalism-in-the-professions-2023/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hildebrandproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/The_School_of_Athens__by_Raffaello_Sanzio_da_Urbino-scaled-e1695070750105.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231018T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231018T093000 DTSTAMP:20260420T042117 CREATED:20230926T132647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231009T172130Z UID:3528-1697617800-1697621400@hildebrandproject.org SUMMARY:Liturgy & Personality DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\nOctober 18\, 25\, and November 1 \n\n\n\nA three-week reading group through Liturgy & Personality with Tom Gourlay.\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Wednesdays at 8:30 am ET (8:30 pm Australian Western Standard Time/Philippines Standard Time; 2:30 pm Central European Standard Time). \n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\nAbout the Text\nA precursor to the “Liturgical Movement” of the twentieth century\, Dietrich von Hildebrand’s Liturgy and Personality is an awe-filled appreciation of Mass and its role in personal formation. Written by a philosopher who had recently converted to Catholicism\, the book awakens us to see with fresh eyes the true beauty of the liturgy. \nFormat\nThe meeting will be conducted live in Zoom. Links for the session will be sent out ahead of time. \nTo allow for rich discussion\, the group is limited in size to a maximum of 20 participants. Once the group is full\, additional registrations will be placed on a waitlist. \nAll participants are expected to have a copy of the text and to come prepared to each session having done the weekly reading (15-45 pages per week). The weekly reading schedule will be e-mailed to you. \nModerator\n\n\n\n\n\nTom Gourlay is the National Director of Chaplaincy and Faith Formation\, and a lecturer and PhD candidate in Theology at the University of Notre Dame Australia. \nTom graduated in 2017 with a Masters of Theological Studies from The John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family Studies in Melbourne\, Victoria with a thesis titled\, ‘The Catholic Academy and the Sanctified Mind: The Implications of David L. Schindler’s Critique of Liberal Metaphysics for the Ethos of Catholic Academies.‘ He also holds Bachelors and Masters Degrees in education and a Graduate Certificate in Liberal Arts from the University of Notre Dame Australia. Prior to his work in Chaplaincy\, Tom worked as a classroom teacher and faculty head of Religious Education in Catholic schools in Western Australia. \nTom is an Associated Scholar at the Hildebrand Project\, and in 2012 became the co-founder of the Christopher Dawson Society for Philosophy and Culture (Inc.)\, serving as the society’s inaugural president\, a position he continues to hold. \n\n\nCosts\nReading groups are free to attend. \nIf you are able\, we invite you to make a donation to help defray the costs of organizing (reading groups cost the Hildebrand Project ~$900 for a four-week group). We are committed to making reading groups accessible to all; therefore\, participation is not contingent on a donation. \nYour gift support this reading group\, our publications\, web resources\, and other events\, all of which contribute to bringing the vital\, life-giving witness of personalist philosophy into new and uncertain times. \n\n\n\n\n\nLevel: \nSuitable for beginner to intermediate: primarily discussion. \n\n\nReadings:\nWeek 1: Intro & Ch. 1-3 Week 2: Ch. 4-7 Week 3: Ch. 8-11 \n\n\nTime:\n\n8:30 pm Australian Western Standard Time/ Philippines Standard Time\n2:30 pm Central European Standard Time\n8:30 am Eastern Standard Time\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/liturgy-personality-october-2023/ CATEGORIES:Reading Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hildebrandproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Beato_angelico_predella_della_pala_di_fiesole_02.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231011T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231011T200000 DTSTAMP:20260420T042117 CREATED:20230925T200822Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230927T163121Z UID:3530-1697050800-1697054400@hildebrandproject.org SUMMARY:An Investigation Concerning the State by Edith Stein DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\nOctober 11\, 18\, 25\, and November 1 \n\n\n\nA four-week reading group through An Investigation Concerning the State by Edith Stein with Dr. William Tullius.\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Wednesdays (October 11\, 18\, 25\, and November 1st) at 7:00 – 8:00 PM ET. \n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\nAbout the Text\nAny state exists only for the benefit of human beings. This basic tenet of Edith Stein’s political thought rests on her conviction that humanity is fundamentally one community\, precious beyond measure. Differences of race\, culture\, and language offer us means to grasp the values of life uniquely so that we may share them universally\, reaching across all such social boundaries. Stein wrote this treatise in the early days of the Weimar Republic\, shortly after the First World War. It sets forth a philosophy of law\, government\, and administration that is at once idealistic and practical. What is right\, Stein argues\, does not arise from legislation or litigation or politics. Right relations\, as such\, are more basic than any institution. Here\, too\, are Stein’s first serious discussions of religious issues such as quilt\, expiation\, and freedom of conscience. This is the philosophical work that immediately preceded her decision to be baptized on January 1\, 1922. Whether ironically or predictably\, Stein was put to death twenty years later by a state that brazenly defied nearly every principle that she had defended in this treatise. In death she bore personal witness to the unity and dignity of the human race. She perished with her people\, Jews and Christians alike\, at Auschwitz in August 1942. \nIf you purchase your copy here by September 30 and use the code “SUMMER23” at checkout\, you will receive 50% off your purchase. \nFormat\nThe meeting will be conducted live in Zoom. Links for the session will be sent out ahead of time. \nTo allow for rich discussion\, the group is limited in size to a maximum of 20 participants. Once the group is full\, additional registrations will be placed on a waitlist. \nAll participants are expected to have a copy of the text and to come prepared to each session having done the weekly reading (15-45+ pages per week). The weekly reading schedule will be e-mailed to you. \nModerator\n\n\n\n\n\nWilliam Tullius holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the New School for Social Research and is currently an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at American Public University System. His main areas of research revolve around the development of a phenomenological ethical theory through the study of such phenomenological thinkers as Edmund Husserl\, Max Scheler\, and Edith Stein. He is currently working on a book on Edith Stein’s moral philosophy titled Outlines of Morality: On the Ethical Philosophy of Edith Stein\, which is expected to be published in Spring/Summer 2024 by Lexington Books as part of the series Edith Stein Studies. \n\n\nCosts\nReading groups are free to attend. \nIf you are able\, we invite you to make a donation to help defray the costs of organizing (reading groups cost the Hildebrand Project ~$900 for a four-week group). We are committed to making reading groups accessible to all; therefore\, participation is not contingent on a donation. \nYour gift support this reading group\, our publications\, web resources\, and other events\, all of which contribute to bringing the vital\, life-giving witness of personalist philosophy into new and uncertain times. \n\n\n\n\n\nLevel: \nSuitable for intermediate philosophy students: primarily discussion. \n\n\nReadings:\nWeek 1: Pages 1-37 Week 2: Pages 37-104 Week 3: 104-145Session 4:  147-193 \n\n\nTime:\n7:00 PM – 8:00 PM \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/edith-stein-reading-group-oct-23/ CATEGORIES:Reading Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://hildebrandproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/edith-stein-large.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231010T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231010T150000 DTSTAMP:20260420T042117 CREATED:20230926T132631Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240108T203240Z UID:3527-1696946400-1696950000@hildebrandproject.org SUMMARY:Liturgy & Personality DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\nOctober 10\, 17\, 24 \n\n\n\nA three-week reading group through Liturgy & Personality just for clergy with Dr. Maria Wolter.\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Tuesday afternoons (October 10\, 17\, 24) from 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET. \n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\nAbout the Text\nA precursor to the “Liturgical Movement” of the twentieth century\, Dietrich von Hildebrand’s Liturgy and Personality is an awe-filled appreciation of Mass and its role in personal formation. Written by a philosopher who had recently converted to Catholicism\, the book awakens us to see with fresh eyes the true beauty of the liturgy. \nFormat\nThe meeting will be conducted live in Zoom. Links for the session will be sent out ahead of time. \nTo allow for rich discussion\, the group is limited in size to a maximum of 20 participants. Once the group is full\, additional registrations will be placed on a waitlist. \nAll participants are expected to have a copy of the text and to come prepared to each session having done the weekly reading (15-45 pages per week). The weekly reading schedule will be e-mailed to you. \nModerator\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Wolter graduated with a B.A. in Philosophy\, Theology\, and History from Franciscan University of Steubenville. She pursued her M.A. in Philosophy\, as well as her STB\, M.A.\, and STL in Theology at the Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven (KUL)\, Belgium\, where she also received her Ph.D. in Philosophy. An Austrian-American national\, she returned to Austria upon receiving her present appointment at Franciscan University of Steubenville at its Study Abroad Program in Gaming\, Austria\, in 2007. \n\n\nCosts\nReading groups are free to attend. \nIf you are able\, we invite you to make a donation to help defray the costs of organizing (reading groups cost the Hildebrand Project ~$900 for a four-week group). We are committed to making reading groups accessible to all; therefore\, participation is not contingent on a donation. \nYour gift support this reading group\, our publications\, web resources\, and other events\, all of which contribute to bringing the vital\, life-giving witness of personalist philosophy into new and uncertain times. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLevel: \nSuitable for beginner to intermediate: primarily discussion. \n\n\nReadings:\nWeek 1: Intro & Ch. 1-3 Week 2: Ch. 4-7 Week 3: Ch. 8-11 \n\n\nTime:\n2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/liturgy-personality-october-2023-for-clergy/ CATEGORIES:Reading Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hildebrandproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Beato_angelico_predella_della_pala_di_fiesole_02.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231005T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231005T190000 DTSTAMP:20260420T042117 CREATED:20230926T132619Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230926T132620Z UID:3534-1696528800-1696532400@hildebrandproject.org SUMMARY:The Nature of Love DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\nOctober 5\, 12\, 19\, 26 \n\n\n\nA four-week reading group through The Nature of Love with Derek Jeffreys.\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Thursday evenings (October 5\, 12\, 19\, 26) from 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM ET. \n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\nAbout the Text\nIn this study on love a new side of Dietrich von Hildebrand’s thought emerges. Hildebrand is here led into areas of personal subjectivity that he did not have the occasion to explore in his ethical writings. In a most original way he shows that the desire to be loved by the person whom one loves has nothing to do with selfishness; he shows that this desire to be loved and so to be united with the other person is itself a kind of self-donation to the other. Thus Hildebrand resists the altruism that claims that one is selfless toward the beloved person only by willing the good of the other in such a way as to be indifferent to being loved in return. On the other hand\, he equally resists the claim that the happiness of the one who loves is the primary motive of love. Hildebrand indicates the radically other-centered direction of love\, while avoiding the pitfall of a depersonalized altruism. Thus he does justice both to the extraordinary self-transcendence of love as well as to subjectivity of love. This work constitutes a major contribution to the Christian personalism that Hildebrand represents. \nFormat\nThe meeting will be conducted live in Zoom. Links for the session will be sent out ahead of time. \nTo allow for rich discussion\, the group is limited in size to a maximum of 20 participants. Once the group is full\, additional registrations will be placed on a waitlist. \nAll participants are expected to have a copy of the text and to come prepared to each session having done the weekly reading (15-45 pages per week). The weekly reading schedule will be e-mailed to you. \nModerator\n\n\nDerek Jeffreys\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\nCosts\nReading groups are free to attend. \nIf you are able\, we invite you to make a donation to help defray the costs of organizing (reading groups cost the Hildebrand Project ~$900 for a four-week group). We are committed to making reading groups accessible to all; therefore\, participation is not contingent on a donation. \nYour gift support this reading group\, our publications\, web resources\, and other events\, all of which contribute to bringing the vital\, life-giving witness of personalist philosophy into new and uncertain times. \n\n\n\n\n\nLevel: \nSuitable for advanced students of philosophy. \n\n\nReadings:\nWeek 1: IntroductionWeek 2: Chapter 1Week 3: Chapter 3Week 4: Chapter 6 \n\n\nTime:\n6:00 PM – 7:00 PM ET \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/the-nature-of-love-oct-2023/ CATEGORIES:Reading Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://hildebrandproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/The-Nature-of-Love-Draft-Cover-e1629397636823.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230710T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230714T170000 DTSTAMP:20260420T042117 CREATED:20230412T214150Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230530T200017Z UID:2850-1688979600-1689354000@hildebrandproject.org SUMMARY:Summer Graduate Residency DESCRIPTION:Summer Graduate ResidencyJuly 10-14\, 2023Franciscan University of Steubenville\nThe Hildebrand Project is pleased to announce our fifth annual graduate residency.  \nThis Residency will be led by our master faculty (each a student of either Dietrich von Hildebrand or Karol Wojytla) and will provide attendees scholarly support\, including intellectual\, professional\, and mentorship.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Summer Graduate Residency aims to support MA and PhD students\, postdocs\, and scholars working on Dietrich von Hildebrand or in conversation with some aspect of his thought by giving them a chance to present drafts of an MA thesis\, dissertation chapter\, or scholarly article. The daily schedule will be a blend of lectures\, group discussions of work-in-progress\, private consultations with faculty\, and time for reading and writing. \nThe Hildebrand Project invites work that brings his thought into conversation with: \n\nPhilosophical traditions like analytic philosophy or phenomenology \nSpecific contemporary issues in emotion theory\, virtue ethics\, aesthetics\, etc. \nThe intersection of faith and reason and the rehabilitation of reason in the sense of Wojtyla and Ratzinger \nThe broader Catholic intellectual tradition\, especially efforts to locate Hildebrand within this tradition \nJewish\, Protestant\, and Orthodox philosophical and theological thought\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe also welcome applicants working on other philosophers\, such as Plato\, Aristotle\, Aquinas\, Kant\, John Henry Newman\, Edmund Husserl\, Adolf Reinach\, Max Scheler\, Edith Stein\, Karol Wojtyla\, Romano Guardini\, Hans Urs von Balthasar\, Jacques Maritain\, Joseph Ratzinger\, Norris Clarke SJ\, Emmanuel Levinas\, Joseph Soloveitchik\, Dallas Willard\, et alia\, provided their work is in substantive dialogue with Hildebrand. \nExceptions may be made for work in which Hildebrand’s thought is not central provided it is focused on close kindred spirits (e.g. Karol Wojtyla or Max Scheler) or on the intellectual tradition he represents. Please contact us before applying to find out if your work would fit our guidelines.  \nIn addition to intellectual support\, the program will include professional development sessions on how to approach writing a dissertation\, balancing a research agenda\, and traversing the academic job market.  \nThe application deadline is June 1\, 2023. Please note that letters of recommendation are required to be considered for travel scholarships. \n\nSubmit your Application\n\n\nSeminar Faculty\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n John F. Crosby \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rocco Buttiglione \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Josef Seifert \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 Rocco ButtiglioneA trusted collaborator of Pope St. John Paul II\, and is an authority on his philosophical anthropology. His book Karol Wojtyla: The Thought of the Man who became Pope John Paul II is a fundamental work on the pope’s early philosophy. A member of the Italian Parliament for over two decades\, he serves on the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences and holds the John Paul II Chair for Philosophy and History of European Institutions at the Lateran University in Rome. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Hildebrand Project. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Josef SeifertProfessor Seifert received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Salzburg in 1969 and\, under Professor Robert Spaemann\, his habilitation from the University of Munich (Privatdozent) in 1975. He studied chiefly under Balduin Schwarz\, the most distinguished German former student of Dietrich von Hildebrand\, at the University of Salzburg\, and under Gabriel Marcel in Paris. Already as a child (from age 3 on) he knew Hildebrand personally\, because Seifert’s mother had been a student of Hildebrand in Munich and both of his parents were Hildebrand’s friends. He is the author of many books\, and Europe’s leading student and teacher of Hildebrand’s philosophy. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. John Crosby speaks with a colleague. \n\n\n\n\n\nFormat\nEach day will begin with research presentations\, followed by talks on Hildebrand’s thought by our senior scholars. After lunch\, participants will receive professional development support on topics such as “Dissertation 101” or “The Academic Job Market\,” followed by office hours with our faculty. The schedule will include breaks for participants to access the library or the Hildebrand Archives. \n\n\n\n\n\nSubmit your Application\n\n\n\n\nRoom and Board\n\nThe residency is free to attend for all accepted candidates. It will be held on the campus of Franciscan University of Steubenville\, where participants will be lodged in university housing. Participants will have access to the university library\, internet\, and other basic amenities. All costs for room and board are included. \n\n\n\n\n\nTravel Scholarship Opportunities\n\nScholarships for travel are available. Scholarship requests are included on the application\, due June 1\, 2023. Please note that letters of recommendation are required to be considered for travel scholarships. URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/2023-summer-graduate-residency/ CATEGORIES:Residency ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hildebrandproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Residency2022-14.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230626T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230701T080000 DTSTAMP:20260420T042117 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\nThe person who is filled with gratitude toward God is also the only person who is truly awake. \nDietrich von Hildebrand\, Gratitude \n\nSeminar Description\nIn this seminar we will explore gratitude as a fundamental moral disposition without which no one can really be happy.   \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.  \nGratitude precludes proclamations to absolute autonomy and rejects the Promethean aspiration to complete self-creation\, to become ourselves like gods.  \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.  \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? \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.  \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.  \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\nSeminar Faculty\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\nFormat\nThe seminar will be a mix of lectures\, panels\, conversations\, and small group discussions. \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. \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\nSchedule\nThe seminar will begin with an opening dinner on June 26. Participants will depart on July 1. \nDay 1: Created in the Image of God\n\nKeynote: The Christian Vision of Creation\nPanel: Gratitude & Worship: Prayer\, Eucharist\, Liturgy\nConversation: Gratitude & Great Suffering\n\nDay 2: The Gift of Self\n\nKeynote: Acceptance of One’s Own Being\nPanel: Ingratitude – Self-Hatred\, Depression\, & Despair\nConversation: Promethean Choice – Transhumanism & Euthanasia\n\nDay 3: To Give as we Receive\n\nKeynote: Gratitude & the Reception of Tradition\nPanel: Human Challenges to which Gratitude is an Antidote\nConversation: Care for One Another – Stewardship & Civil Society\n\nDay 4: The Fruits of a Grateful Life\n\nKeynote: Manifestations of Gratitude – Joy\, Festivity\, Hope\nPanel: The Role of Gratitude in Creativity\, Art\, and Invention\nConversation: Closing Faculty Panel\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nApplying for the Seminar\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.The application and nomination window ends on April 30\, 2023. \nYou may apply online below. The application contains two short essays (300 words max)\, and you will add your answers there: \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. \nWe encourage faculty to nominate students to attend. Nominations will serve in lieu of letters of recommendation.  \n \nOnline Seminar Track\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\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. Recommendations can be emailed directly to events@hildebrandproject.org. \nStudent: $650Professional (dormitory housing): $1\,650Professional (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\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:20230511T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230511T130000 DTSTAMP:20260420T042117 CREATED:20230420T214410Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230425T205727Z UID:2914-1683806400-1683810000@hildebrandproject.org SUMMARY:Aesthetics Vol. II DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\nMay 11\, 18\, 25 and June 1 \n\n\n\nA four-week reading group through Aesthetics – Volume II with with Javier Carreño.\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Thursdays (May 11\, 18\, 25 and June 1) from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT. \n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\nAbout the Text\nWritten in the early 1970s during the last years of his life\, as if harvesting a lifetime of reflection\, Aesthetics is Dietrich von Hildebrand’s comprehensive two-volume study and defense of beauty and art.  \nThe second volume of Hildebrand’s Aesthetics applies his original theory of the beautiful with tremendous depth and attention to many of the world’s most beloved works of art\, including architecture\, sculpture\, painting\, literature\, and music. \nFor those familiar with Hildebrand’s background\, it is no surprise that beauty should be a central theme in his thought. His father\, Adolf von Hildebrand\, was one of the most revered German sculptors of the turn-of-the-century period and Dietrich von Hildebrand grew up in a world filled with many of Europe’s leading artists\, musicians\, and writers. \nFormat\nThe meeting will be conducted live in Zoom. Links for the session will be sent out ahead of time. \nTo allow for rich discussion\, the group is limited in size to a maximum of 20 participants. Once the group is full\, additional registrations will be placed on a waitlist. \nAll participants are expected to have a copy of the text and to come prepared to each session having done the weekly reading (15-45 pages per week). The weekly reading schedule will be emailed to you. \nModerator\n\n\n\nJavier Carreño studied Philosophy and English at Dallas\, and Philosophy at Leuven (Belgium)\, where he earned a doctoral degree in 2010. He has written mainly on the imagination and aesthetics – taking Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology as point d’appui. He also maintains an interest in the philosophy of religion\, especially the role of affectivity as a preamble to faith. \nSince 2011\, Dr. Carreño has taught for Franciscan University of Steubenville’s study abroad program located in lower Austria\, where he is an associate professor of philosophy\, and also serve as academic chairman. His teaching comprises both “core” courses in the perennial tradition as well as specialized courses in Literature and Theology. \n\n\nCosts\nReading groups are free to attend. \nIf you are able\, we invite you to make a donation to help defray the costs of organizing (reading groups cost the Hildebrand Project ~$900 for a four-week group). We are committed to making reading groups accessible to all; therefore\, participation is not contingent on a donation. \nYour gift support this reading group\, our publications\, web resources\, and other events\, all of which contribute to bringing the vital\, life-giving witness of personalist philosophy into new and uncertain times. \n\n\n\n\n\nLevel: \nSuitable for intermediate to advanced: primarily discussion. \n\n\nTime:\n12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/aesthetics-vol-ii-may-2023/ CATEGORIES:Reading Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hildebrandproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/La_Salle_des_Saisons_vers_1802-1803-scaled-e1645568333891.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T150000 DTSTAMP:20260420T042117 CREATED:20230320T172843Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230405T143458Z UID:1852-1681394400-1681398000@hildebrandproject.org SUMMARY:Aesthetics Vol. I DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\nApril 13\, 20\, 27\, and May 4 \n\n\n\nA four-week reading group through Aesthetics – Volume I with with Javier Carreño.\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Thursdays (April 13\, 20\, 27\, and May 4\, 2023) from 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT. \n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\nAbout the Text\nWritten in the early 1970s during the last years of his life\, as if harvesting a lifetime of reflection\, Aesthetics is Dietrich von Hildebrand’s comprehensive two-volume study and defense of beauty and art.  \n“Aesthetics [is] best understood as an explosion of insights\,” writes Alice von Hildebrand\, widow of Dietrich\, in a note on the text. “He knew he was running out of time\, and so he tried to capture the Niagara Falls of ideas that flowed out of him.” \nFor those familiar with Hildebrand’s background\, it is no surprise that beauty should be a central theme in his thought. His father\, Adolf von Hildebrand\, was one of the most revered German sculptors of the turn-of-the-century period and Dietrich von Hildebrand grew up in a world filled with many of Europe’s leading artists\, musicians\, and writers. \nFormat\nThe meeting will be conducted live in Zoom. Links for the session will be sent out ahead of time. \nTo allow for rich discussion\, the group is limited in size to a maximum of 20 participants. Once the group is full\, additional registrations will be placed on a waitlist. \nAll participants are expected to have a copy of the text and to come prepared to each session having done the weekly reading (15-45 pages per week). The weekly reading schedule will be emailed to you. \nModerator\n\n\n\nJavier Carreño studied Philosophy and English at Dallas\, and Philosophy at Leuven (Belgium)\, where he earned a doctoral degree in 2010. He has written mainly on the imagination and aesthetics – taking Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology as point d’appui. He also maintains an interest in the philosophy of religion\, especially the role of affectivity as a preamble to faith. \nSince 2011\, Dr. Carreño has taught for Franciscan University of Steubenville’s study abroad program located in lower Austria\, where he is an associate professor of philosophy\, and also serve as academic chairman. His teaching comprises both “core” courses in the perennial tradition as well as specialized courses in Literature and Theology. \n\n\nCosts\nReading groups are free to attend. \nIf you are able\, we invite you to make a donation to help defray the costs of organizing (reading groups cost the Hildebrand Project ~$900 for a four-week group). We are committed to making reading groups accessible to all; therefore\, participation is not contingent on a donation. \nYour gift support this reading group\, our publications\, web resources\, and other events\, all of which contribute to bringing the vital\, life-giving witness of personalist philosophy into new and uncertain times. \n\n\n\n\n\nLevel: \nSuitable for intermediate to advanced: primarily discussion. \n\n\nReadings: \nSession 1: Pgs. 1–47 \nSession 2: Pgs. 47–73 \nSession 3: Pgs. 75–101 \nSession 4: Pgs. 151–155 and 203–214 \nSession 5: Pgs. 261–281 \n\n\nTime:\n2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/aesthetics-vol-i-reading-group-2023/ CATEGORIES:Reading Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230412T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230412T150000 DTSTAMP:20260420T042117 CREATED:20230320T210541Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230320T211528Z UID:2224-1681308000-1681311600@hildebrandproject.org SUMMARY:The Soul of a Lion DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\nApril 12\, 19\, 26\, May 3 \n\n\n\nA four-week reading group through The Soul of a Lion\, the biography of Dietrich von Hildebrand with with John Crosby.\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Wednesdays (April 12\, 19\, 26\, and May 3\, 2023) from 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT. \n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\nAbout the Text\nDietrich von Hildebrand\, widely regarded as one of the great Catholic philosophers of the 20th century\, is well-known for his numerous books\, but\, until this present work\, not much has been known of his remarkable and inspiring life. Written by his wife\, Alice\, also a highly respected Catholic thinker\, this is a fascinating\, moving\, and\, at times\, gripping account of a truly great man of the Church who suffered much on account of his faith. \nBased on his memoirs—given as a 5\,000 page\, handwritten “letter” Dietrich wrote to his wife late in his life—this biography tells his story from his glorious youth with a unique intellectual and cultural formation\, his conversion to Catholicism\, his great passion for truth and beauty\, his extensive writing on Christian philosophy and theology\, and his steadfast\, determined opposition to Nazism that made him a marked man who miraculously escaped execution. A powerful biography of a relentless fighter against injustice\, a devoted son of the Church\, a man who had the “soul of a lion”. \nFormat\nThe meeting will be conducted live in Zoom. Links for the session will be sent out ahead of time. \nThis format differs from our more academic reading groups. Whereas those are more discussion-focused\, this group will be centered around a lecture from the leader\, who leads our participants in a focused meditation on the text\, allowing everyone involved the opportunity to wrestle with the thoughts contained here. \nModerator\n\n\n\nDr. John Crosby was himself a student of Dietrich Hildebrand. Besides writing major studies on the thought of John Henry Newman\, Max Scheler\, and Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II\, and making his own contributions to personalist philosophy\, Dr. Crosby devoted his long and distinguished academic career—first at the University of Dallas\, then at the International Academy of Philosophy\, and finally at Franciscan University of Steubenville\, where he recently retired—to introducing his students to the intellectual legacy of Hildebrand\, and also to making Hildebrand better known in scholarly circles. Dr. Crosby was the translator of the English edition of  Hildebrand’s philosophical masterpiece\, The Nature of Love\, and he also serves as the General Editor of all our present and future translations of Hildebrand’s works. \n\n\nCosts\nReading groups are free to attend. \nIf you are able\, we invite you to make a donation to help defray the costs of organizing (reading groups cost the Hildebrand Project ~$900 for a four-week group). We are committed to making reading groups accessible to all; therefore\, participation is not contingent on a donation. \nYour gift support this reading group\, our publications\, web resources\, and other events\, all of which contribute to bringing the vital\, life-giving witness of personalist philosophy into new and uncertain times. \n\n\n\n\n\nLevel: \nSuitable for all levels of familiarity with the material. \n\n\nTime:\n2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/soul-of-a-lion-reading-group/ CATEGORIES:Reading Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://hildebrandproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/DvH-photo-by-George-Baltus-Fall-of-1939.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230405T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230405T210000 DTSTAMP:20260420T042117 CREATED:20230320T213132Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230320T213711Z UID:2226-1680724800-1680728400@hildebrandproject.org SUMMARY:Transformation in Christ DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\nApril 5\, 12\, 19\, 26\, and May 3 \n\n\n\nA five-week reading group through Transformation in Christ with Catherine Yanko.\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Wednesdays (April 5\, 12\, 19\, 26\, and May 3) from 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT. \n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\nAbout the Text\nRecognized as a modern spiritual classic and perhaps Dietrich von Hildebrand’s greatest work\, Transformation in Christ is a sublime and practical study\, giving a penetrating analysis of the true path to holiness for those who love Christ. The first requisite is the person’s desire for change\, and with that fundamental attitude in mind\, Hildebrand devotes a chapter to each of the successive spiritual attitudes necessary for those who strive for Christian perfection. The Beatitudes are treated with beauty and depth in an uncompromising challenge to every serious Christian to put into practice these teachings of Christ. \nFormat\nThe meeting will be conducted live in Zoom. Links for the session will be sent out ahead of time. \nTo allow for rich discussion\, the group is limited in size to a maximum of 20 participants. Once the group is full\, additional registrations will be placed on a waitlist. \nAll participants are expected to have a copy of the text and to come prepared to each session having done the weekly reading (15-45 pages per week). The weekly reading schedule will be e-mailed to you. \nModerator\n\n\n\nCatherine Yanko is a Graduate Fellow of the Hildebrand Project. Currently she is PhD Student at the Catholic University of America where she studies Moral Theology/Ethics. Her main interests are in theological/philosophical anthropology\, action and virtue theory\, and meta-ethics. She was first introduced to Dietrich von Hildebrand as an undergraduate Student Fellow of the Hildebrand Project; she has continued to study his work\, notably in the development of his concept of reverence in her recently presented paper: “Hildebrandian Reverence for the Defects of Christ: A Thomistic Inquiry of the Reception of Christ’s Salvific Act” at the Thomistic Institute’s conference\, “Thomas Aquinas and the Crisis of Christology”. \n\n\nCosts\nReading groups are free to attend. \nIf you are able\, we invite you to make a donation to help defray the costs of organizing (reading groups cost the Hildebrand Project ~$900 for a four-week group). We are committed to making reading groups accessible to all; therefore\, participation is not contingent on a donation. \nYour gift support this reading group\, our publications\, web resources\, and other events\, all of which contribute to bringing the vital\, life-giving witness of personalist philosophy into new and uncertain times. \n\n\n\n\n\nLevel: \nSuitable for beginner to intermediate: primarily discussion. \n\n\nReadings:\nSession 1: Chapter 1-Readiness to Change \nSession 2: Chapter 6-Recollection and Contemplation \nSession 3: Chapter 7- Humility \nSession 4: Chapter 8- Confidence in God \nSession 5: Chapters 9 & 18 – Striving for Perfection\, and True Surrender to Self \n\n\nTime:\n8:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/transformation-in-christ-reading-group/ CATEGORIES:Reading Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://hildebrandproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/transformation-scaled-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230311T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230311T160000 DTSTAMP:20260420T042117 CREATED:20230223T150701Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230308T234210Z UID:2098-1678546800-1678550400@hildebrandproject.org SUMMARY:Alice von Hildebrand Centennial DESCRIPTION:Join the Hildebrand Project on Saturday\, March 11\, at 3pm ET for a very special commemorative conversation in celebration of the life and thought of Alice von Hildebrand on her 100th birthday. This event will feature special guests and some very special announcements related to Alice that you will not want to miss. \nOur Guests\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dr. Peter Kreeft \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dr. Ronda Chervin \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Robert L. Luddy \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dr. Marie Cabaud Meaney \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fr. Gerald Murray \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Vivian Warren \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dr. Peter KreeftPeter Kreeft is a professor of philosophy at Boston College\, and is one of the most widely read Christian authors of our time. He has published over eighty-five books on a vast array of topics in spirituality\, theology\, and philosophy. They include A Summa of the Summa\, Making Sense Out of Suffering\, Ha! A Christian Philosophy of Humor\, The Philosophy of Tolkien\, and the forthcoming Socrates’ Children. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dr. Ronda ChervinRonda Chervin has a Ph.D. in philosophy from Fordham University and an M.A. in Religious Studies from Notre Dame Apostolic Institute. She is a convert to the Catholic faith from a Jewish but atheistic background. \nDr. Ronda has been a professor at Loyola Marymount University\, St. John’s Seminary of the Los Angeles Archdiocese\, Franciscan University of Steubenville\, Our Lady of Corpus Christi\, and Holy Apostles in Connecticut. Dr. Ronda presents on EWTN and Catholic radio. She is a dedicated widow and grandmother. \nMore than sixty books of hers have been published by Catholic presses in the area of philosophy and spirituality. Her many books include Quotable Saints\, Healing Meditations from the Gospel of St. John\, and Catholic Realism. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Robert L. LuddyRobert L. Luddy is a business and educational entrepreneur. A graduate of LaSalle University and a U.S. Army veteran\, Luddy purchased a sheet metal shop in 1981 and transformed it into CaptiveAire Systems\, leading manufacturer of commercial kitchen ventilation systems in North America. Today\, CaptiveAire employs over 1000 employees\, with 90 sales offices nationwide and sales over $300 million in 2015. However\, Bob Luddy is more than just a businessman\, he is a champion for children’s education and a school choice advocate. \nIn 1998\, Bob established Franklin Academy\, a public charter school in Wake Forest\, which now serves over 1\,200 K-12 students. In 2001\, Bob founded St. Thomas More Academy\, a private Catholic college preparatory high school in Raleigh. In 2007\, Bob opened Thales Academy\, a growing chain of independent Pre-K-12 schools offering high-quality education at an affordable tuition. The Luddy Schools are quickly growing\, with nearly 3\,000 students enrolled throughout the Raleigh area. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dr. Marie Cabaud MeaneyDr. Marie Cabaud Meaney is a specialist on the French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil\, on whom she has written two books. She holds graduate degrees in modern languages and philosophy from Oxford University and the International Academy of Philosophy (IAP) in Liechtenstein. She taught at the University of Villanova in Philadelphia before the birth of her daughter. Since then\, she has taught courses for the International Theological Institute in Trumau\, Austria. Her previous work on infertility has been published in French\, German\, Croatian\, Hungarian\, and Spanish. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fr. Gerald MurrayFather Murray was born in Brooklyn\, New York in May 1959\, and grew up in New Rochelle. He attended Regis High School and Dartmouth College. He entered St. Joseph’s Seminary\, Dunwoodie in 1980\, and was ordained a priest on December 1\, 1984. He was assigned to various parishes in the Bronx and Manhattan before being sent to the Gregorian University in Rome in 1993 to study Canon Law. He was awarded a Doctorate in Canon Law in 1998\, and then served briefly as a Judge on the Metropolitan Tribunal before being named Pastor of St. Vincent De Paul Church on West 23rd Street in 1998. In 2012 Fr. Murray was named Pastor of Holy Family Church. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Vivian WarrenVivian Warren is a member of the Bruderhof Communities\, an Anabaptist community located in upstate New York. She works in the community kitchen and factory\, as well as spending time caring for the elderly. She was a close friend of Lily’s for the last decade of her life\, traveling with her on occasion to speaking engagements. Several sisters from the Bruderhof lived with Lily\, providing care for her at the end of her life. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nThe event is open to anyone. 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DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\nMarch 9\, 16\, 23\, 30 \n\n\n\nA four-week reading group through What is Philosophy? with with Javier Carreño.\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Thursdays (March 9\, 16\, 23\, 30) from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT. \n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\nAbout the Text\nHildebrand begins by analyzing closely the receptivity that is proper to all kinds of knowledge. As a result\, he holds a robust philosophical realism according to which the mind does not impose its terms on the object known\, but receives the object on the object’s own terms. \nHildebrand’s What Is Philosophy? is perhaps the most significant and nuanced work we have that defends the position of realist phenomenology.  \nFormat\nThe meeting will be conducted live in Zoom. Links for the session will be sent out ahead of time. \nTo allow for rich discussion\, the group is limited in size to a maximum of 20 participants. Once the group is full\, additional registrations will be placed on a waitlist. \nAll participants are expected to have a copy of the text and to come prepared to each session having done the weekly reading (15-45 pages per week). The weekly reading schedule will be emailed to you. \nModerator\n\n\n\nJavier Carreño studied Philosophy and English at Dallas\, and Philosophy at Leuven (Belgium)\, where he earned a doctoral degree in 2010. He has written mainly on the imagination and aesthetics – taking Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology as point d’appui. He also maintains an interest in the philosophy of religion\, especially the role of affectivity as a preamble to faith. \nSince 2011\, Dr. Carreño has taught for Franciscan University of Steubenville’s study abroad program located in lower Austria\, where he is an associate professor of philosophy\, and also serve as academic chairman. His teaching comprises both “core” courses in the perennial tradition as well as specialized courses in Literature and Theology. \n\n\nCosts\nReading groups are free to attend. \nIf you are able\, we invite you to make a donation to help defray the costs of organizing (reading groups cost the Hildebrand Project ~$900 for a four-week group). We are committed to making reading groups accessible to all; therefore\, participation is not contingent on a donation. \nYour gift support this reading group\, our publications\, web resources\, and other events\, all of which contribute to bringing the vital\, life-giving witness of personalist philosophy into new and uncertain times. \n\n\n\n\n\nLevel: \nSuitable for intermediate to advanced: primarily discussion. \n\n\nTime:\n12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/what-is-philosophy-reading-group-2023/ CATEGORIES:Reading Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://hildebrandproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/what-is-philosophy-cover-for-page-e1677091869452.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230307T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230307T130000 DTSTAMP:20260420T042119 CREATED:20230222T195302Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230222T201338Z UID:2085-1678190400-1678194000@hildebrandproject.org SUMMARY:The Privilege of Being a Woman DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\nMarch 7\, April 4\, and May 2 \n\n\n\nThe first in a new format of reading groups\, on Alice von Hildebrand’s The Privilege of Being a Woman with with Maria Fedoryka.\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Tuesdays (March 7\, April 4\, and May 2) from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT. \n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\nAbout the Text\nIn The Privilege of Being a Woman\, Alice von Hildebrand examines the claims of radical feminists like Simone de Beauvoir. She counterposes these claims against the example of the Virgin Mary to reveal what she calls the feminine gifts of purity\, receptivity\, and life-giving nurturing. \nFormat\nThe meeting will be conducted live in Zoom. Links for the session will be sent out ahead of time. \nThis format differs from our more academic reading groups. Whereas those are more discussion-focused\, this group will be centered around a lecture from the leader\, who leads our participants in a focused meditation on the text\, allowing everyone involved the opportunity to wrestle with the thoughts contained here. \nModerator\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. \nAmong her scholarly writings are an analysis of Dietrich von Hildebrand’s philosophy of marital intimacy and procreation titled Finis superabundant Operis: Refining an Ancient Cause for Understanding the Spousal Act in the ACPQ\, and “‘God is Love’”: Personal Plurality as the Completion of Aristotle’s Notion of Substance and Love as the Absolute Ground of the Divine Being” in the Proceedings of the ACPA. Among her popular publications are the booklet The Special Gift of Women for God\, the Family and the World published by the Catholic Truth Society in England. She is currently working on an article comparing Hildebrand’s and Aquinas’s philosophy of affectivity\, as well as an article on Hildebrand’s theory of motivation as the key to understanding deliberate moral wrongdoing. \n\n\nCosts\nReading groups are free to attend. \nIf you are able\, we invite you to make a donation to help defray the costs of organizing (reading groups cost the Hildebrand Project ~$900 for a four-week group). We are committed to making reading groups accessible to all; therefore\, participation is not contingent on a donation. \nYour gift support this reading group\, our publications\, web resources\, and other events\, all of which contribute to bringing the vital\, life-giving witness of personalist philosophy into new and uncertain times. \n\n\n\n\n\nLevel: \nSuitable for beginners. \n\n\nReadings: \nSession 1: Parts 1–2Session 2: Parts 3–5Session 3: Parts 6–9 \n\n\nTime:\n12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/the-privilege-of-being-a-woman-reading-group/ CATEGORIES:Reading Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://hildebrandproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/privilege-e1677096553849.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230302T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230302T210000 DTSTAMP:20260420T042119 CREATED:20230222T195254Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230222T195255Z UID:2082-1677787200-1677790800@hildebrandproject.org SUMMARY:The Nature of Love DESCRIPTION:Reading Group\nMarch 2\, 9\, 16\, and 23 \n\n\n\nA four-week reading group through The Nature of Love with Derek Jeffreys.\nThe group will meet over Zoom on Thursday evenings (March 2\, 9\, 16\, and 23) from 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT. \n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\nAbout the Text\nIn this study on love a new side of Dietrich von Hildebrand’s thought emerges. Hildebrand is here led into areas of personal subjectivity that he did not have the occasion to explore in his ethical writings. In a most original way he shows that the desire to be loved by the person whom one loves has nothing to do with selfishness; he shows that this desire to be loved and so to be united with the other person is itself a kind of self-donation to the other. Thus Hildebrand resists the altruism that claims that one is selfless toward the beloved person only by willing the good of the other in such a way as to be indifferent to being loved in return. On the other hand\, he equally resists the claim that the happiness of the one who loves is the primary motive of love. Hildebrand indicates the radically other-centered direction of love\, while avoiding the pitfall of a depersonalized altruism. Thus he does justice both to the extraordinary self-transcendence of love as well as to subjectivity of love. This work constitutes a major contribution to the Christian personalism that Hildebrand represents. \nFormat\nThe meeting will be conducted live in Zoom. Links for the session will be sent out ahead of time. \nTo allow for rich discussion\, the group is limited in size to a maximum of 20 participants. Once the group is full\, additional registrations will be placed on a waitlist. \nAll participants are expected to have a copy of the text and to come prepared to each session having done the weekly reading (15-45 pages per week). The weekly reading schedule will be e-mailed to you. \nModerator\n\n\n\nDerek S. Jeffreys is a professor of Humanities\, Religion and Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin\, Green Bay. He did both his B.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. He has written books on St. John Paul II\, ethics and torture\, and ethics and solitary confinement. His most recent book is America’s Jails: The Search for Human Dignity in An Age of Mass Incarceration. Jeffreys teaches courses on love\, Thomas Aquinas\, ethics\, ethics and punishment\, evil\, Dante\, Buddhism\, and other topics. For more than a decade he has been involved in jail and prison education\, giving volunteer religion and philosophy lectures to inmates in Wisconsin’s jails and prisons. He is married and proud father of twin boys. \n\n\nCosts\nReading groups are free to attend. \nIf you are able\, we invite you to make a donation to help defray the costs of organizing (reading groups cost the Hildebrand Project ~$900 for a four-week group). We are committed to making reading groups accessible to all; therefore\, participation is not contingent on a donation. \nYour gift support this reading group\, our publications\, web resources\, and other events\, all of which contribute to bringing the vital\, life-giving witness of personalist philosophy into new and uncertain times. \n\n\n\n\n\nLevel: \nSuitable for advanced students of philosophy. \n\n\nReadings:\nWeek 1: Introduction Week 2: Chapter 1Week 3: Chapter 3Week 4: Chapter 6 \n\n\nTime:\n8:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now URL:https://hildebrandproject.org/event/the-nature-of-love-reading-group/ CATEGORIES:Reading Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://hildebrandproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/The-Nature-of-Love-Draft-Cover-e1629397636823.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR