Love, Leisure, and Festivity: Josef Pieper on the Passions of Love and the Contemplation of God

About the speaker:

Margaret Hughes is on the teaching faculty of Thomas Aquinas College, New England, a Catholic great books college. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Fordham University, where she wrote on the thought of Josef Pieper and the role of the perception of beautiful art in moral formation. She has presented and published work on Thomistic anthropology, aesthetics, and ethics, with a particular interest in the relation between the passions and human flourishing. Her BA is in medieval studies and philosophy from the University of Chicago.