Zena Hitz "Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of Intellectual Life"

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Zena Hitz is Tutor at St. Johns College, Annapolis. She earned her PhD in Philosophy from Princeton after doing her undergraduate work at St. John’s College, Annapolis, and after graduate degrees in classics and philosophy at Cambridge and Chicago. Before returning to teach at St. John’s in 2015, she taught philosophy at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Auburn and McGill. Her most recent book is Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life (2020), a defense of intellectual activity for its own sake.
Learn more about Dr. Hitz
zenahitz.net/
For more information and lectures, visit George Washington Forum
www.gwfohio.org

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@TheEnlightenedMachine 5 күн бұрын

I read her book, truly inspiring.

@odago3152 3 жыл бұрын

Zena Hitz.YOU ARE POWERFUL.Remember that.Don't fall short to limiting beliefs,like your host.YOU ARE POWERFUL.

@compromisedcover Жыл бұрын

big kudos to ms. hitz for answering the questions with grace and enthusiasm the entire time though her interlocutor seemed to be on a mission to take some arguments in her book to the worst possible interpretation..

@jamesdennis8290 Жыл бұрын

On the phenomenon of money and the hypostatization of the quantifiable substitute for "value": It sounds like you've read Keynes with a good depth of understanding, instead of just parroting the nostrums.

@abhyudaychakraborty3818 Жыл бұрын

53:25 Precisely. An intellectual life shall bolster human relatedness. Frankly, it's pointless without empathy and compassion and other values which make it's foundation.

@abhyudaychakraborty3818 Жыл бұрын

If work is sanctified it wouldn't remain "work" anymore. It'd become the most extraordinary kind of play.

@abhyudaychakraborty3818 Жыл бұрын

I think when it comes to calculus or any mathematics really, our society has set a high price on failure and the fear of failure kind of ensures a paralysis of the spirit whenever we sit to do math. This is called conditioning. but, thank god, there is also something called 'counter-conditiong' to undo it's effects.