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A Passion for Learning
By Mount St. Mary's UniversityEducation
A Passion for Learning episodes
- STEM Talks: Mental Health
Sit down with us as we talk to professor of Neuroscience and the Program Director for the Physician Assistant Program about mental health.
19 min - Passion for Learning, Great Eight, S2. E4: Flannery O'Connor
Emma Weinheimer talks with Professor Mary Johnson about the literary works of Flannery O'Connor, known as a Southern, Catholic writer.
51 min - Passion for Learning, Great Eight, S.2.E.3. Plato, the Republic
Emma Weinheimer and Dr. Joshua Hochschild talk with Dr. John Hersey, Professor of Philosophy at Mount St. Mary’s University.
Their topic: Plato’s Republic.
59 min - Passion for Learning, Great Eight, S.2. E.2. Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
Emma Weinheimer and Dr. Joshua Hochschild bring us episode 2 of season 2 of the Great Eight. They talk with Dr. Christopher Anadale, Professor of Philosophy at Mount St. Mary's University.
52 min - 14 min
- Passion for Learning, Great Eight, S.2. E1. Arthurian Legends
Emma Weinheimer and Dr. Joshua Hochschild return for another season of the Great Eight. They talk with Dr. Susann Samples, Professor of World Languages at Mount St. Mary's University. Dr. Samples entered the world of King Arthur through her study of German, particularly the High Middle Ages. She compares the German and British traditions and brings to life the Arthurian ideal of fellowship and virtue.
48 min - Passion for Learning S2. E1: The Heart of the University
We are back for season 2! Emma Weinheimer and David McCarthy discuss -- with Dr. Paige Hochschild -- John Paul II's apostolic constitution on Catholic Universities, Ex Corde Ecclesiae: The Heart of the Church.
59 min - Passion for Learning S1. E8: Epic Poems, Beowulf and Song of Roland
Emma Weinheimer and Dr. Joshua Hochschild speak with Prof. Stephen McGinley, who teaches philosophy at Mount St. Mary's University and farms his land in Emmitsburg. See https://goodsoilfarmllc.com/. Good Soil Farm practices regenerative agriculture in line with Catholic social thought. Prof. McGinley discusses Beowulf, an epic of the 7th century, and Song of Roland from the 11th. Along the way connections are made with Aldos Huxley's Brave New World and G.K. Chesterton's The Ball and the Cross. What pulls it all together? Celebration.
41 min - Message from the Editor
David McCarthy gives a quick word on Season 2 and a few stats about our listeners across the globe.
1 min - Passion for Learning S1. E7: Sophocles's "Antigone" and "Philoctetes"
Emma Weinheimer and Dr. Joshua Hochschild discuss Greek tragedy with Dr. Kurt Blaugher, long-time theatre professor at Mount St. Mary's University. Dr. Blaugher draws out the enduring themes of two plays, "Antigone" and "Philoctetes," and he focuses on the ritual and performative aspects of theatre for the Greeks and for us today. Along the way, we learn some interesting Mount history and that Emma has caught the theatre bug.
43 min
About A Passion for Learning
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Welcome to A Passion for Learning, sponsored by the Provost’s Office of Mount St. Mary’s University. A Passion for Learning draws on the ideas and interests of Mount St. Mary’s faculty, students, and…
alumni who are “inspired by a passion for learning.” We believe that the cultivation of our intellectual life will make us better people, looking for greater understanding and becoming more compassionate, to the end that we can “lead lives of significance in service to God and others.”