Philosophy And The Religious Life | Doctor Zena Hitz

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🗓️ 10 November 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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This lecture was given on September 14, 2023, at Yale University For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Zena Hitz is a Tutor at St. John's College where she teaches across the liberal arts. She is interested in defending intellectual activity for its own sake, as against its use for economic or political goals. Her forthcoming book, Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life, is rooted in essays that have appeared in First Things, Modern Age, and The Washington Post. Her scholarly work has focused on the political thought of Plato and Aristotle, especially the question of how law cultivates or fails to cultivate human excellence. She received an MPhil in Classics from Cambridge and studied Social Thought and Philosophy at the University of Chicago before finishing her PhD in Philosophy at Princeton.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tomistic Institute podcast.
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0:13.1	The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Temistic Institute chapters around the world.
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0:21.7	visit us at to mystic institute.org.
0:27.3	Thanks so much, Peter, for that generous introduction.
0:30.5	I'm thrilled to be here.
0:32.4	Two of my favorite institutions in the higher education
0:37.2	world today are the Tomistic Institute and the Elm Institute
0:41.3	and its sister institutions. So I'm delighted that they're working together and happy to be here.
0:47.3	And I'm going to be talking about the religious life, the book that I published, which I gather there's some copies up here
0:55.4	that for free later, is that right?
0:59.3	Yes.
0:59.5	Okay.
1:00.0	So if you get up here fast enough, then you get a free copy of the book after the talk.
1:05.8	But don't come up now because I'm talking.
1:07.6	Okay.
1:09.2	So the religious life, as I'm discussing it, has to do with
1:14.9	the particular forms of life lived by monks, nuns, hermits, friars, people who, in my work focuses on the Christian traditions, not because
1:31.7	it's exclusive at all. There's also a religious life in many other traditions, Hinduism,
1:37.0	Buddhism, and there are even versions in literature connected to Judaism and Islam.
1:46.4	But Christianity is the thing I know.
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