Member Profiles
Nikolaj Zunic
St. Jerome’s University
Education
Ph.D., Catholic University of Leuven
M.A., Catholic University of Leuven
B.A., University of Toronto
AMA Presentations
(2024) “Freedom, Free Will, and Free Choice: Dynamic Distinctions in Search of a Unity.”
(2018) “The Metaphysical Foundations of Science: Maritain Confronts Einstein.”
(2017) “Conscience and Responsibility: Maritain contra Arendt.”
Publications
Books
(2022) Schelling on Truth and Person: The Meaning of Positive Philosophy. Lexington
Press.
(2013) Distinctions of Being: Philosophical Approaches to Reality. Catholic University of America Press.
Academic Articles
(2022) “The Gift of the Self and the Renewal of Humanism and Culture,” in Making
Sense of Nonsense: Navigating Through the West’s Current Quagmire, ed. Scott
Ventureyra. True Freedom Press.
(2022) “Schelling’s Paths of Liberation from Pure Reason,” Review of Metaphysics 71 (3): 435-479.
(2021) “The Processes of Universio and Katabole in the Creation of the World,” Official Journal of the North American Schelling Society 3: 1-18.
(2018) “Maritain’s Concept of Virtue as a Form of Movement and its Application to Human Generation”, in The Things that Matter: Essays Inspired by the Later Work of Jacques Maritain, ed. Heidi M. Giebel. Catholic University of America Press.
(2017) “On the Political and Metaphysical Meanings of the Family,” Maritain Studies 33: 100-15.
(2016) “Matter, Spirit and Teleology in Human Generation,” Maritain Studies 32: 116-36.
(2015) “The Idea of Universal Justice in Plato, Kant, and Benedict XVI,” Philosophy, Culture, and Traditions 11: 173-94.
(2015) “Aesthetic Education and the Redress of Morality,” in A Piercing Light: Beauty, Faith, and Human Transcendence, ed. James M. Jacobs. Catholic University of America Press.
(2014) “Philosophy and the Search for Peace,” in Redeeming Philosophy: From Metaphysics to Aesthetics, ed. John J. Conley, SJ. Catholic University of America Press.
(2014) “The Theory and Praxis of Human Rights,” Philosophy, Culture, and Traditions 10: 53-71.
(2014) “The Mystery of Intersubjectivity,” in Whence Intelligibility?, ed. Louis Perron. Council for Research in Values and Philosophy.
(2014) “The Grace of Conversion: Reflections on the Sources of Religious Life,” Maritain Studies 30: 53-70.
(2013) “The Measure of Morality”, in Aquinas & Maritain on Evil, ed. James G. Hanink. Catholic University of America Press.
(2013) “Sexual Ethics and the Purpose of Marriage,” in Love and Friendship: Maritain and the Tradition, ed. Montague Brown. Catholic University of America Press.