Vertybės ir Dorovė: Moralinės Filosofijos Pagrindai

This volume represents one of the most sustained efforts of the Lithuanian diaspora to cultivate an independent philosophical literature outside Soviet control. Published in 1988—just three years before Lithuania's restored independence—by a professor at Boston College under the auspices of the Lithuanian Catholic Academy of Science in Rome, it embodies the dual mission of the exile intellectual community: to maintain Lithuanian as a vehicle of serious scholarly thought, and to engage global philosophical discourse from a distinctly Lithuanian Catholic standpoint. The dedication to the author's parents who 'left and did not return' places the work within the lived trauma of displacement, giving it biographical as well as intellectual weight.

The book's apparatus—a French table of contents, an English summary, and a multilingual index of philosophical figures from Socrates and Thomas Aquinas to Stasys Šalkauskis and Edith Stein—signals the author's ambition to situate Lithuanian moral philosophy within the international scholarly conversation. As part of the LKMA's monograph series, it joins an extraordinary body of diaspora scholarship in history, literature, theology, and philosophy produced under exile conditions, and stands as evidence that Lithuanian intellectual culture did not simply survive displacement but continued to develop and engage the wider world of ideas.

Diaspora scholarly publishing. The Lietuvių Katalikų Mokslo Akademija operated from Rome as the principal Lithuanian Catholic academic institution outside Soviet-occupied Lithuania, producing monographs, collected proceedings, and historical source editions to sustain Lithuanian intellectual and cultural life in exile.