Wonder and Wisdom: The Power of Symbols and the Inevitable Meaningfulness of Things

Описание: Wonder and Wisdom: The Power of Symbols and the Inevitable Meaningfulness of Things | Fall Humanities Lecture 2023

In this lecture, Professor D. C. Schindler reflects on the way symbols affect us, moving us to think and feel at a level that is deeper than our consciousness of their influence. Using Babette’s Feast as an illustration, he then proposes that all of the things that surround us, the things that form our “material culture,” have a symbolic character. Part of the way we grow in wisdom is by learning to attend to these symbolic things and deepening our understanding of them.

D.C. Schindler’s work is concerned above all with shedding light on contemporary cultural challenges and philosophical questions by drawing on the resources of the classical Christian tradition. After teaching for twelve years at Villanova University, first as a teaching fellow in philosophy and then as a founding member of the Department of Humanities, Dr. Schindler returned to Washington, DC to teach philosophy courses at The John Paul II Institute.

About the Humanities Lecture series: Each semester the Department of Humanities hosts a lecture that speaks from the heart of our commitment to the intellectual life at Villanova University. The fall lecture has traditionally been given by a guest lecturer, who, drawing on his or her research, offers insights into the great questions of human flourishing to which our curriculum is devoted.

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