Dr. Alice von Hildebrand is a Catholic philosopher and theologian, and also the widow of the outspoken anti-Nazi German philosopher, Dietrich von Hildebrand. She taught philosophy at Hunter College for thirty-seven years until her retirement in 1984, and has written several books. Born in Belgium, she came to the United States in 1940. In a wide-ranging interview in her apartment in Manhattan last October, the 88-year-old Hildebrand spoke at length on topics ranging from womanhood, marriage, celibacy, to the eternal destiny of the human soul. "Made for Joy" is the first and this is the second in a series of excerpts from that interview:
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