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The Symbolic World

316 - DC Schindler - The Duality of Art (Climbing Mt Sophia)

The Symbolic World

Jonathan Pageau

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Education

4.8824 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This is a repost of a great discussion I had on the Climbing Mt. Sophia channel alongside DC Schindler. We discuss beauty, art, freedom, techne and technology, primarily exploring the question: what is beauty?

Original: Climbing Mt. Sophia - Beauty, Art and Freedom with Jonathan Pageau and DC Schindler: https://youtu.be/pIikYtFS4Q8?si=SlFG5MR0ZtbmcL9I

Jonathan’s video on contemporary art: The Search for Participation in Contemporary Art: https://youtu.be/EWc7TKm9jho?si=WuwCjk3Tb3Zdkpmg

David and Ken’s series on Freedom from Reality: Part 1; Good, Functionality and Unease with DC Schindler: https://youtu.be/kSoCVbcmXfg?si=qkmNLSc2J7DLcDQA


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True beauty sort of seduces you toward the good. It pulls you deeper into reality. But then there's this,

0:08.0

in these more pornographied forms, the seduction of the art becomes a pull into the abstract.

0:14.9

In the scripture, technique, art, applied science, and not just in the Bible, but also in kind of Greek mythology and ancient

0:22.5

thinking, it's always a dual thing. It's not clean. There's a healthy suspicion towards it,

0:28.5

because, and if you look at how Plato was like, you know, get rid of those artists,

0:32.3

because they can make you think something's beautiful even if it's not, right? They're tricksters.

0:36.3

They can become propagandists. And in scripture, you can see that applied arts are from Cain,

0:43.0

and they bring about the flood. So there's this very dark aspect of what they can bring,

0:49.3

but then God is constantly saving that which has fallen.

1:06.0

Music and God is constantly saving that which has fallen. This is Jonathan Peugeot.

1:07.0

Welcome to the symbolic world.

1:22.2

Hello and welcome to Mount Sophia.

1:26.9

I'm excited today to be here with Jonathan Pajou and David Schindler again.

1:28.9

Jonathan Pajou, of course, is the leader of the symbolic world movement, which is a YouTube channel and a website and I think a

1:36.4

printing press now as well, right? Yeah, we just started a press like a few months ago with our,

1:41.2

with our fairy tale series. Yeah, yeah yeah so a lot of wonderful things going on

1:45.4

there i mean so many resources wonderful people a part of that whole movement and then jonathan

1:51.4

also is a orthodox icon carver an artist and today we'll be referencing some things from his

1:58.6

video on contemporary art i'll put a link here.

2:01.6

And then David Schindler, of course, writes under the pen name DC Schindler,

2:06.6

professor of anthropology and metaphysics, I think, at John Paul II Institute, and then author of many great works.

2:13.6

So David and I have been doing a series on David's book, Freedom from Reality.

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