Carnegie Mellon University / University of Pittsburgh

The Thomistic Institute at Carnegie Mellon University / University of Pittsburgh presents a lecture on “Political Authority and the Common Good” by Prof. David Schindler of the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family. Register below to receive Zoom information.

Tuesday October 20

7:00pm EST

About the speaker:

Professor Schindler received his Ph.D. from The Catholic University of America in 2001, with a dissertation on the philosophy of Hans Urs von Balthasar.  He taught at Villanova University from 2001-2013, first as a teaching fellow in the Philosophy Department, and then in the Department of Humanities, where he received tenure in 2007.  He received an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship to do research in Munich from 2007-2008.  He is currently working on a multi-volume critique of the modern concept of freedom as the power to choose in light of a metaphysics of freedom based on actuality.  Professor Schindler is a translator of French and German and has served as an editor of Communio: International Catholic Review since 2002.