09:00 Opening Remarks John Henry Crosby,
Hildebrand Project Director
Rev. Luis Romera,
University Rector
09:30 Plenary Session 1 Josef Seifert Dietrich von Hildebrand on Benevolence in Love and Friendship
—a Masterful Contribution to the Perennial Philosophy
10:30 Plenary Session 2 Michael Waldstein Re-Reading St. Thomas with Dietrich von Hildebrand:
Value and the Transcendence of Nature
11:20 Coffee Break
11:50 Plenary Session 3 Rocco Buttiglione The Philosophy of Love in Dietrich von Hildebrand and Joseph Ratzinger
12:45 Lunch Break
15:00 Afternoon Session Submitted Papers
17:15 Plenary Session 4 His Eminence John Zizioulas,
Metropolitan of Pergamon An Ontology of Love: A Patristic Reading of Dietrich von Hildebrand’s “The Nature of Love”