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The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods

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But all this is to say that The Intellectual Life is a book as relevant today as it was almost a century ago when it was written. The intellectual life has not evolved, mutated, or corrupted in its essence, for it is the life of the human soul made in the image of likeness of God, and thus can change as little as God can change. Perhaps it is a book even more relevant today, as intellectual life in the post-modern, post-Christian, post-industrial, post-Empire, post-rational—and post-intellectual?—age—becomes even more virtual, artificially sustained, and counterfeit. Alasdair MacIntyre writes: Zena Hitz’s wonderful book presents a different and refreshing take on these issues. Focusing on what it means to love learning and learning for learning’s sake, she shows us how intellectual activity is part of human flourishing and is essential to our fulfilment."—Joana Correa Monteiro, Forma De Vida Everyone who cares about colleges and universities and their place in American life should read it. [ Lost in Thought] confronts familiar and abiding questions about intellectual inquiry in an utterly engaging and profound way. . . . [A] wonderful book."—Flagg Taylor, National Review A.G. Sertillanges sees the intellectual life as essentially a vocation, and in the most spiritual sense of the word. It is, as he says, “a sacred call.” The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods, The Newman Press. Reprinted by the Catholic University of America Press, 1987.

The “they” to whom MacIntyre refers here are St. Benedict and his followers in the sixth century, who did all they could to preserve the precious Christian and classical civilization, the literature, history, philosophy, and spirituality that had formed the basis of civilized society up to then. “We,” however, are charged with preserving the existence and character of, not just the artifacts of intellect, but intellect itself, which seems in real danger of being supplanted and replaced with some sort of communal electric brain a la The Matrix or C.S. Lewis’s That Hideous Strength of which individual human persons are to be its willing, mindless circuits. The barbarians are not just among us but have been ruling us for some time, as MacIntyre has pointed out, and if we want our culture once again to be ruled by Intellect, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, then we ourselves must be so ruled, and so we must read Sertillanges.In Lost in Thought] Hitz is asking the right questions. . . . The question at its heart is disarmingly simple and deeply engaging: What should we do with ourselves."—Jonathan Marks, Wall Street Journal

Antonin-Gilbert Sertillanges (1917), "La paix française", discours prononcé en l'église Sainte-Madeleine le lundi 10 décembre 1917, en la cérémonie religieuse et patriotique prédisée par S.E. le Cardinal Archevêque de Paris, Paris: Blond et Gay.

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Foundations of Thomistic Philosophy, London: Sands & Co. Reprinted by Templegate, 1956, and Cluny Media, 2020. La Providence, la Contingence et la Liberté selon saint Thomas d'Aquin," Revue des Sciences Philosophiques et Théologiques, 1, pp.5–16. Note sur la Nature du Mouvement d'Après s. Thomas Aquin," Revue des Sciences Philosophiques et Théologiques, 2, p.235-241.

Okay, so we lay the liberal-arts foundations down in college, most effectively (in my opinion) by an integrated curriculum a la Thomas Aquinas College, University of Dallas, Wyoming Catholic College, etc., and then we begin to specialize in graduate school, after our foundations have been widely laid and our excavation widely dug, after which we specialize further, digging deeper in what’s left of our professional life into our initial masterpiece with specialized research.If you want a lot more detail of my proposal go to my blogger for a long detailed and illustrated review with many quotations etc As conservatives, we tend to praise those—admittedly praiseworthy—women like Amy Coney Barrett who manage to “have it all.” This sometimes results in implicit denigration of the intellectual capabilities of those women who have chosen not to, who have withdrawn from professional and academic spaces. Writing is worthwhile even for those who harbor no aspirations for publication or recognition of their words. It gives women a place to work through their thoughts, to grow in wisdom, and to cultivate an imagination that is better prepared to meet the challenges of her daily life with courage.

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