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Why Leisure is Necessary for Human Beings

University of Virginia Undergraduate Chapter

4:00 pm

Jefferson Hall (Hotel C on West Range)

A lecture by Prof. Zena Hitz (St. John’s College)

Free and open to the public.

Speaker Bio

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, 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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