6:30 pm, Sunday, June 8th

a double-lecture by Maria Fedoryka, PhD, on

   Love, as the origin and meaning of our existence

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Quid est homo? Lecture series launched

Alice von Hildebrand inaugurated our Quid est Homo? lecture series with a talk on "Truth and Panic", reflecting on her experience teaching for more than 30 years at a secular university. About 100 guests were present at the beautiful home of Chuck and June Piola. The lecture will soon be available in MP3 format for downloading.

Personalist Project President, Katie van
Schaijik, introducing Alice von Hildebrand.
[Photo by Michael Wallacavage]

Alice von Hildebrand
just before speaking.
[Photo by John Brooks Randle]


What is the Personalist Project?

We are a non-profit organization based in West Chester, PA, dedicated to the spread of Christian personalism. Personalism is philosophy that focuses attention on the truth about the nature and dignity of persons—a truth directly at stake in the deepest and most difficult problems afflicting our society today. It can be understood at least in part as a the philosophical contemplation of man “from within,” as a unique and irreplaceable self—a moral agent who “possesses himself,” is free and responsible to dispose over himself, and who lives his life in relation to other persons and to the world of objective goods and values.

This way of approaching persons throws new light on the philosophical tradition and brings it …

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The present age...is a time of great controversy about the human being, controversy about the very meaning of human existence, and thus about the nature and significance of the human being… We know that such situations in history have frequently led to a deeper reflection on Christian truth as a whole, as well as on particular aspects of it. That is also the case today. The truth about the human being, in turn, has a distinctly privileged place in this whole process. After nearly twenty years of ideological debate in Poland, it has become clear that at the center of this debate is not cosmology or philosophy of nature but philosophical anthropology and ethics: the great and fundamental controversy about the human being.

Karol Wojtyla , The Person: Subject and Community