September 18 - 8th Meeting
What is education, what can and ought it to be? What choices and priorities would that entail on our part? (198 pp. reading)
Opening prayer and meditation: excerpts from Pope John Paul II’s Veritatis Splendor.
- Erskine, John, “The moral obligation to be intelligent,” New York, 1915.
- Pieper, Josef; Leisure the Basis of Culture; trans. from the German by Alexander Dru, with T. S. Eliot intro; 1952; Indianapolis; Liberty Fund, 1999 reprint; 137 pp .
- Excerpt from Berlin, Isaiah, The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the history of ideas, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1991, “The decline of utopian ideals in the West.”
- Lilla, Mark; “G. B. Vico: The antimodernist,” published in The Wilson Quarterly, Summer 1993.
- Suggestions for further reading: Lilla, Mark; G. B. Vico: The making of an anti-modern; Cambridge, MA and London; Harvard University Press; 1993; 255 pp. Vico, Giambattista; The New Science; trans. Thomas Goddard Bergin and Max Harold Fisch; Ithica and London; Cornell University Press; 1984; 445 pp. Dorothy Sayer’s “The lost tools of learning” available gratis on-line as e-text. Mortimer Adler’s “The order of learning ”available gratis on-line as e-text. C. S. Lewis’ The Abolition of Man. An examination essay on Romano Guardini’s ideas of Catholic education. O’Malley, Frank and Joseph Lanigan, et al., “untitled statement of Christ College outline” from Frank O’Malley Papers in the University of Notre Dame Archives and published in Meaney, John W., O’Malley of Notre Dame, Notre Dame and London, University of Notre Dame Press, 1991, pp. 146-169.