Cornell University

The Thomistic Institute at Cornell University presents a lecture by Prof. Zena Hitz of St. Johns College titled “The Way Towards Wisdom.”

This lecture will be on Zoom. Register below to receive the Zoom credentials.

Monday, May 17

5:30 PM

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, 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.