by ICLE Team | Sep 18, 2017 | Member School Content, When I Discovered Your Words Blog
‘As I once wrote, “Mozart’s (and Da Ponte’s) Così fan tutte and Le Nozze di Figaro sparkle with comic brilliance on the surface, but under the surface is a deep sadness, and an unbearable pain.”’[restrict] Worth reading: Two Ways of Staging the Marriage of Figaro...
by ICLE Team | Sep 17, 2017 | Member School Content, When I Discovered Your Words Blog
Many consider “cultural relativism” a new phenomenon. But people have long recognized that cultures differ in their moral beliefs and practices. It was not a modern anthropologist, but the Greek historian Herodotus who observed, “if one were to offer men to choose out...
by ICLE Team | Sep 11, 2017 | Member School Content, When I Discovered Your Words Blog
I love directing Shakespeare’s plays. Since the words mean everything in a successful performance, I am always faced with the challenge of interpreting every speech, every difficult passage, every seemingly insignificant scene. I delight in discovering the dramatic...
by ICLE Team | Sep 11, 2017 | Member School Content, When I Discovered Your Words Blog
Allan Bloom began his Closing of the American Mind with this memorable observation: “There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.” (25) College...
by ICLE Team | Sep 4, 2017 | Member School Content, When I Discovered Your Words Blog
There are always students at the beginning of my Moral Theology course who wonder why the class matters. To them, “moral theology” is perhaps a pretentious way of getting immersed in a set of rules dictated by the Church. For a significant number of these students,...
