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ICYMI I talked about Gullivers Travels with Henry! One of my favorite books of all time.
Zena Hitz
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Zena Hitz
@zenahitz
Tutor @stjohnscollege
Foundress @CatherineProj
Author, LOST IN THOUGHT
*New*: A PHILOSOPHER LOOKS AT THE RELIGIOUS LIFE
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Joined June 2019
- This is what human flourishing looks likeMy daily math grind after work. No matter how tired I am, I always manage to do some math. Even if it's just one good exercise.
- This is what human flourishing looks likeSpent 1 hour on 8 pages of Plato’s Parmenides this morning. It’s a difficult one.
- The following majors are showing significantly worse employment prospects than Philosophy, according to the New York Fed: 1. Computer Science 2. Business Management 3. Chemistry 4. Computer Engineering 5. Information Systems 6. Public Policy and Law 7. Physics 8. Economics
- don't know how to break this to you but the 4channers are running circles around the pros, academics and critics4chan’s Literature Board’s Top 100 Books for 2024
- Common mistake: People think that the great books are packed with familiar cliches, whereas the great books are always startling, whether it's startling familiarity or startling weirdness.
- The problem isn't so much the cheating, its the *not learning*Replying to @zenahitzOSU has the right idea. Try to make it part of every class so that using AI is not cheating.
- Today's hot take: The problem in academia is not wokeness or anti-wokeness; it is love of conformity and fear of any kind of disagreement, difference, or invention.
- Sorry. Despite the long-term toxicity of smoking, it is love of life that drives people to it, looking at the sky and trees, making friends, conversations not driven by agendasWhy not fix the conditions that are driving young people to smoke? Build a society where they see the point in living?
- Proud to announce a new endeavor in adult education: The Catherine Project. We offer Oxford-style tutorials, on great books and fundamental questions; on related skills (writing, dead languages ...) & peer-led reading groups. No credits, no degrees, no grades, no fixed tuition.
- Feeding the hungry, housing the homeless etc. ("the corporal works of mercy") played a huge role in the formation of my Catholic faith. I have long thought that the work is not broadly understood. I find it deeply disturbing to see the core of the faith proudly opposed.
- One of the untold higher ed scandals is that the replacement of core curricula with elective gen ed started a race to the bottom for undergrad courses.
- Business management majors have a 51% underemployment rate, by the same study. No one jokes about them "working as baristas".Replying to @zenahitzPhilosophy majors have a 41% underemployment rate. Their "employment prospects" are working as baristas.
- I only want one thing— the same thing every woman wants — to know whether the laws of nature are a priori synthetic.
