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Conservative Conversations with ISI
Liberal Education, Pragmatism, and Asceticism | Zena Hitz
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Intercollegiate Studies Institute
In this episode:
- Zena Hitz joins the podcast to talk about the enduring value and necessity of a liberal arts education
- how class and economic considerations describe the shifts towards “practical” studies and coursework to the neglect of “the fundamental questions”
- the connection between ascetic practice and proper reasoning, and how education requires retreat from the present things
Texts Mentioned:
- Lost in Thought by Zena Hitz
- catherineproject.org
- Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
- Sophist by Plato
- Phaedrus by Plato
- Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
- City of God by Augustine
- Republic by Plato
- Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
- Confessions by Augustine
- Genesis
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