Member Profiles
John Hittinger
Professor of Philosophy,
University of St. Thomas, Houston
Education
Ph.D., Philosophy, Catholic University of America (1986)
M.A., Philosophy, Catholic University of America(1978)
B.A., Philosophy, University of Notre Dame (1974)
AMA Presentations
(2020) “Karol Wojtyła and the Forging of Thomistic Personalism.”
(2018) “The Progress of Conscience in a Technological and Ideological Age.”
(2017) “On the Natural and Metaphysical Foundations of Political Association.”
Publications
Books
(2002) Liberty, Wisdom, and Grace: Thomism and Modern Democratic Theory. Lexington Press.
Edited Books
(2015) Thomas Aquinas: Teacher of Humanity. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
(2011) The Vocation of the Catholic Philosopher: From Maritain to Wojtyla. Catholic University of America Press.
(2001) Reassessing the Liberal State: Reading Maritain’s Man and the State, with Timothy Fuller. Catholic University of America Press.
(1994) Liberalism at the Crossroads: An Introduction to Contemporary Liberal Theory and its Critics, with Christopher Wolfe. Rowman and Littlefield.
Select Academic Articles
(2018) “On the Catholic Audience of Leo Strauss,” in Leo Strauss and His Catholic Readers, ed. Geoffrey M. Vaughn. Catholic University of America Press.
(2018) “An Account of Human Rights in Light of Culture and the Gospel,” in Religion Und Politik in Der Freiheitlichen Demokratie, ed. Klaus Stüwe. Duncker & Humblot.
(2017) “The Springs of Religious Freedom: Conscience and the Search for Truth,” Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 29 (1/2): 4-24.
(2017) “Budziszewski on Natural Law, Conscience, and Atheism,” Catholic Social Science Review 22: 3-14.
(2017) “The Revolution of Conscience in Centesimus Annus,” Philosophy and Canon Law 3: 49-67.
(2016) “Review of Freedom, Truth, and Human Dignity by David Schindler,” Philosophy and Canon Law 2: 271-74.
(2016) “Three Dimensions of Catholic Political Participation: Dignity, Secularity, and Witness,” Philosophy and Canon Law 2: 113-28.
(2016) “Ethos, Person, and Spirit: Principles of Social and Cultural Renewal,” Czlowiek w Kulturze 26: 161-72.
(2015) “Loss of Creation and Its Recovery through Aquinas and Bonaventure,” with Damien Savino, New Blackfriars 97 (1067): 5-21.
(2015) “Why John Paul II Named St. Thomas Aquinas the ‘Doctor Humanitatis,” in Thomas Aquinas: Teacher of Humanity, ed. John Hittinger.
(2015) “Gaudium et spes and the Importance of Political Philosophy,” Pontifical College Josephinum Journal of Theology 20 (2): 279—306.
(2015) “The Family and the Polis: On the Perfect and Imperfect,” The Meaning of the Principle of Subsidiarity. Duncker & Humboldt.
(2015) “Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the land,” The Beatitudes: Christ’s Programme for Evangelisation for all time and for every culture, ed. Marcello Sanchez Sorondo.