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Dr. Maria Fedoryka
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Professor of Philosophy
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Maria Fedoryka, PhD, is Associate Professor of Philosophy. She specializes in ethics, realist phenomenology, and most recently, is publishing and speaking in the areas of sexual ethics and the philosophy of love, exploring the manifold implications for human existence of the origin of creation in love. Dr. Fedoryka received her PhD from the International Academy of Philosophy, having written her dissertation “Moral Evil: Is it Really Only a Privation? The Ontological Ground and Reality of Moral Evil” under Dr. Josef Seifert.
Some Recent Courses
- Philosophy of Love
- Modern and Contemporary Philosophy
- Franciscan Philosophy
- Realist Phenomenology
Some Recent Publications and Lectures
June 2008, “Love and Embodiment as Keys to John Paul II on Humana Vitae”. Conference at the St. Paul School of Divinity at the University of St. Thomas, “Humanae Vitae, the Person and the Thought of John Paul II”, St. Paul, MN
“A Metaphysics of Love and Embodiment: Abortion as the Retroactive Destruction of the Spousal Act” in Life and Learning XVII: The Proceedings of The Sixteenth University Faculty for Life Conference (2007).
February 2007, “Edith Stein and the Vocation to Love” at The Edith Stein Project Conference, “The Edith Stein Project: Toward Integral Healing for Women and Culture”, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IL.
“Metaphysics of the Person: Love as Foundation and Fulfillment” in The Many Facets of Love: Philosophical Explorations, ed. Thomas Jay Oord (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006).