United from Above

by Anthony Esolen

The spirit of the liturgy suggests that we do not become ourselves until we join the symphony. Continue Reading »

10 Jan 2017

Lessons From Dietrich von Hildebrand

by George Weigel

Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889–1977) was a German Catholic philosopher, part of a circle of thinkers that first formed around Edmund Husserl, founder of the philosophical method known as “phenomenology.” Others in that circle included Max Scheler, on whom Karol Wojtyla (St. John Paul II) wrote his second doctoral thesis, and Edith Stein, now St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. The phenomenologists thought philosophy had gotten detached from reality, drifting into the quicksand of thinking-about-thinking-about-thinking. Their motto was “to the things themselves,” and their project was to reconnect thought to reality by a precise observation and analysis of Things As They Are. Continue Reading »

26 Nov 2014

Persistent Defiance

by Carl R. Trueman

A new selection of the writings of Dietrich von Hildebrand has both historical and contemporary significance.
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10 Nov 2014