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Pints With Aquinas

Shakespeare's Life, Work, and Religiosity w/ Dr. Aaron Urbanczyck

Pints With Aquinas

Matt Fradd

Stthomasaquinas, Saintthomasaquinas, Mattfradd, Theology, Catholic, Dominican, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

4.86.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 186 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Aaron Urbanzyck is the Chair of the English Department at Franciscan University of Steubenville. He received his PhD from Florida State University. His teaching and research interests include: the great books of Western civilization, Literary Theory and Criticism, Dante, Shakespeare, ancient Greek literature & philosophy, and the Philosophy of the Human Person.

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0:00.0

All right.

0:09.0

You have to make it seem professional, you don't even need to do that. We just see the cool people do it.

0:13.7

All right, Dr Aaron, great to have you on the show.

0:18.5

Matt, it's a privilege to be here. Thank you for asking me. How do I say your last name for bancic a bancic is it Polish

0:25.5

by the grace of god yes it is good well I know I know I chose the right fellow to come on the

0:31.1

show to talk about Shakespeare. When I texted you and said,

0:34.6

uh, text when you get here, no rush, and you texted back. If it be now, tis not to come, if it be not to come if it be not to come it will be now yet it will come the

0:46.7

readiness is all and then I said okay I'm on the corner of fourth and

0:51.5

market yeah yes I'm on the corner of Fourth and Market. Ah yes, I've chosen have what to speak for me today.

0:57.4

Amazing.

0:58.4

The readiness is all.

1:01.0

I got, you know, after my conversion I was 17 years old, I had never really read a book in my life.

1:07.7

Isn't that crazy?

1:08.7

Seventeen years old.

1:09.7

I just somehow made it through high school, pretending to read and wasn't interested in reading why would I be

1:14.8

I had television I wish to share with you something from and I say this without too much irony

1:21.4

one of my great life coaches Henry David Thoreau.

1:24.4

And he famously says in Walden, many a man, and I'm paraphrasing him, many a man has marked a day in his life

1:31.0

as a turning point by the reading of a book.

1:34.0

And, you know, he's...

1:35.0

Well, I didn't have such a point until I was 17.

1:38.0

So after my conversion is when I got this hunger to read about the Saints and things like that.

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