The Politics and Character of Prudence: Reading Group
Fri, Sep 11
|Batts Hall (BAT)
Over the course of ten Fridays from 12:00 - 1:00pm, we will read and discuss provocative essays on prudence by Russell Kirk and Josef Pieper. Bring your lunch and join the conversation! No advance reading required.
Time & Location
Sep 11, 2020, 12:00 PM – Nov 13, 2020, 1:00 PM
Batts Hall (BAT), 158 W 21st St, Austin, TX 78712, USA
About The Event
Over the course of ten Friday lunches, we will read and discuss provocative essays on prudence by two leading thinkers. The first six Fridays will be spent on excerpts from Russell Kirk's Politics of Prudence. For the final four meetings, we will look at Josef Pieper's commentaries on prudence in his book, The Cardinal Virtues. No outside reading is required. The essays are short enough that we should be able to read them as a group and then launch into a good discussion about their implications. Bring your lunch and join us every Friday starting September 11th.
We will meet in the courtyard between Batts Hall and Mezes Hall
About our scholar:
DeAnn Stuart, Ph.D.
Associate Director of Curriculum of the Austin Institute
DeAnn Barta Stuart earned her B.A. and M.Hum. from the University of Dallas and her Ph.D. in English Literature from Baylor University. While at Baylor, she taught courses in composition and…
