May this work, by means of a philosophical analysis appealing to reason, clear the path and be helpful for finding “the True Light which enlighteneth every man that cometh into this world.” DIETRICH VON HILDEBRAND New York In Festo Sanctissimi Corporis Christi, 1952 The conference theme, “The Christian Personalism of Dietrich von Hildebrand: Exploring His Philosophy of Love,” drew academics from around the world to discuss what it …

Dabei arbeitet Hildebrand heraus, was Husserl in seiner späteren Philosophie verkannt hatte, dass die objektive und absolute Wesensnotwendigkeit sich nicht bloß scharf von jeder rein subjektiven, psychologischen und empirischen Denknotwendigkeit abhebt und auch unmöglich im historischen menschlichen Subjekt seine Wurzel haben kann, sondern auch dem menschlichen Geist und Subjekt … Aufnahme von Max Fenichel (1930er Jahre) Gedenktafel in Wien.

He converted to Catholicism in 1914. Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889–1977) was born in Florence. Von Hildebrand's philosophy, like that of John Paul II, is centered on the human person, and it was phenomenology that gave him the resources to avoid reducing the human person to something lower, to capture the irreducible in human persons, to articulate what distinguishes the human person, what underlies the "image of God" in man. My parents lived in a beautiful house, a former convent of the Fratres Minimi, situated on … Von Hildebrand’s writings encompass a broad range of interests, including metaphysics, political philosophy, theology, spirituality, and liturgy. He was one of Europe’s most outspoken voices against Nazism and Communism. Philosophy, for von Hildebrand, was a way of life and a commitment to freedom, in the face of ideologies that promise utopia while causing only destruction and death.” ― Dietrich von Hildebrand, My Battle Against Hitler: Faith, Truth, and Defiance in the Shadow of the Third Reich Excerpt from Chapter One: Davies’s Attitude to Authority. Dietrich von Hildebrand as personalist philosopher. Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889-1977) I was born in Florence on October 12, 1889, the son of the famous German sculptor Adolf von Hildebrand, and his wife, Irene Schaueffelen. Sein Vater war der bekannte Bildhauer Adolf von Hildebrand. "This book lays out and examines three central aspects of the moral philosophy of Dietrich von Hildebrand: his notions of value, value response, and value blindness. Leben. Oktober 1889 in Florenz; † 26. Dietrich von Hildebrand’s most important and original contribution, not just to a general value theory but to philosophy as such, is arguably his discovery of the three “categories of importance”—that is, three viewpoints under which the importance of an object moves our emotions or will.