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born in Budapest, 1957
| Education: |
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| Faculty of Arts of the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest (philosophy and history)
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| Knowledge of languages: |
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| Writing of papers, articles in French, Italian, English, reading in German, Latin.
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| Present Position |
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| Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Lecturer at the Catholic University of Hungary.
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| Memberships: |
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| Founder (1993), secretary-general (1993-1996) and member of the presidency (since 1993) of the Hungarian Jacques Maritain Association, a Collaborating Association of the International Jacques Maritain Institute, residing in Rome. |
| Member (1993) of the KÉSZ (Kereztény Értelmiségiek Szövetsége, Association of Chrstian Intellectuals), and leader of its Section of Philosophy (1994).
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| Papers Delivered on International Conferences: |
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| Nationalité et rationalité; (4th Conference of Hungarian and Dutch Philosophers, Leiden 1989) |
| La conscience morale comme "affaire privée" (5th Conference of Hungarian and Dutch Philosophers, Budapest 1990) |
| Jacques Maritain, maestro di democrazia per i paesi dell'Europa Centrale (Conference of the International Jacques Maritain Institute, Treviso [Italy] 1994) |
| Demokrácia és relativizmus. [Democracy and Relativism] (delivered on the conference entitled Democracy and Local Democracies [see below]) |
| À la recherche de la nature humaine perdue (Conference of the CIREP [Centre Indépendant de Recherche Philosophique], Toulouse 1995) |
| Universalism, Relativism and the Possibilities of a Global Ethic (conference entitled The Age of Global Dialogue, held in Budapest 1997, organized by the Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung [see the subjoint text]) |
| Conferences organized, directed, proceedings published: |
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| Conferences organized by the Hungarian Jacques Maritain Association in 1993 at the openings of the travelling exhibition Les Grandes Amitiés, presenting the life of Maritain |
| Democracy and Local Democracies. International conference organized by the Hungarian Jacques Maritain Association in Miskolc and Budapest, 1995, financed by the Phare/Tacis Democracy Programme. (Proceedings: see below.)
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| Particular Interest: |
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| in ethics, above all in the possibility of establishing rational values and norms of universal validity, i.e. the actual chances of a natural law based on human nature, answering the challenge of relativism and that of the "Guillotine of Hume", i.e. the gap between "is" and "ought".
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