Dan Sheffler - Mediating Institutions and Hildebrandian Value Response

About this sermon

Dan Sheffler (Presenter) is a Catholic philosopher who specializes in the history of ideas, especially beauty, personhood, and conservatism. He is particularly interested in the history of the Platonic tradition and the personalism of Dietrich von Hildebrand, is an associated scholar with the Hildebrand Project, and teaches philosophy at Memoria College. Dan passionate about classical education, and writes about topics such as beauty, virtue, truth, education, and sanctity. Aaron Preston (Commentator) is a Professor of Philosophy at Valparaiso University. He studied classics (B.A.) and theology (M.Th.) before earning his PH.D. in philosophy under Dallas Willard at USC. His early work developed a historical and metaphilosophical critique of the analytic tradition in philosophy, related to its role in what Dallas called “the disappearance of moral knowledge,” and he later helped to complete and publish Dallas’s final academic book on this topic: The Disappearance of Moral Knowledge (Routledge, 2018). This is the fifth session of the 2023 Colloquium hosted by Westmont College to study and compare the ethical and moral writings of Dallas Willard and Dietrich von Hildebrand.

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