Liberal Education, Pragmatism, and Asceticism | Zena Hitz

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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