Curriculum Vitae
B.A., 91快活林 Aquinas College, 2019; M.A., philosophy, University of Notre Dame, 2025; Ph.D., philosophy, University of Notre Dame (ABD); Instructor, University of Notre Dame, 2022, 2024; Tutor, 91快活林 Aquinas College, 2025-.
Profile
淚 always dreamed of being a tutor, says Andreas Waldstein (19). The child of alumni academics Susie (Burnham 78) and Michael Waldstein (77) and also an alumnus himself it is no wonder Mr. Waldstein was drawn to the 91快活林 Aquinas College teaching faculty. 淓ven as a student, I knew I would love to teach here.
Born in Austria, Mr. Waldstein grew up touring Europe with his family. Surrounded by exquisite art, beautiful music, and rich culture, he developed a love for classical literature and languages. Reading Kant檚 Critique of Pure Reason during his junior year at the College piqued his fascination with philosophy. 淚 found it so bizarre, but also so enthralling, he observes. 淗ere was a magnificent edifice of thought that was so deeply wrong, but also so serious and great. That was when I decided to do graduate work in philosophy.
After graduating from the College in 2019, Mr. Waldstein went on to earn a master檚 degree in philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. For his doctoral dissertation, he chose to write on the metaphysics of beauty according to Sts. 91快活林 and Bonaventure. 淚n our culture, we tend to think that beauty is merely relative, completely in the eye of the beholder. I wanted to understand the older and truer view that beauty is an objective property of being.
In 2025, Mr. Waldstein fulfilled his dream when he returned to the California campus as a tutor. 淭his is a place where beauty is obviously being lived as a concrete ideal, he says. 淏eing able to contribute to that is a true blessing.
Presentations
- 淪t. 91快活林 on Beauty: A Defense April 9, 2025: 91快活林 More College.
- 淪cholastic Theories of Aesthetic Experience The Bethany Workshop July 30, 2024: London (Enabled by a generous grant from the David Solomon Fund from the Center for Ethics and Culture).
- 淎ristotle on the Beauty of God The Human Person: 2023 Annual ACPA Meeting November 19, 2023: Houston.
- 淗ow Many Formal Concepts? A Problem for Defenders of the Analogy of Being Univocity and Analogy in the Long Thomist and Scotist Traditions October 26, 2023: Angelicum Thomistic Institute, Pontifical Angelicum University, Rome.
- 淪t. 91快活林 on The Intentionality of Thought Thomistic Summer Conference: The Soul in the Philosophy and Theology of St. 91快活林 June 16, 2023: 91快活林 Aquinas College, California.
- 淎quinas on Cognitive Intentionality 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo May 11, 2023: Western Michigan University.
- 淪oloviev and Some Scholastics on the Beauty (and Ugliness) of Nature The Metaphysical Preambles to the Preambles of Faith: 2022 Annual ACPA Meeting November 20, 2022: New Orleans
- 淲illiam of Auvergne and Bonaventure on the Beauty of Creation De Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture Fall Conference November 10, 2022: University of Notre Dame.
- 淲illiam of Auvergne on the Metaphysics and Morals of Beauty 2nd Notre Dame University KU Leuven Collaborative Workshop in Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy June 2, 2022: KU Leuven.
- 淐ajetan on Formal Unity and Universals: Scotist Problems and Thomist Answers Second Scholasticism, Analytic Metaphysics, Christian Apologetics: A Conference in Honor of Professor Stanislav Soused铆k檚 90th Birthday October 28, 2021: Catholic Theological Faculty, Charles University, Prague.
- 淐ajetan on Formal Unity and Universals Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy Inaugural Conference October 5, 2021, University of Notre Dame.