PHILOSOPHY

PH 234 Natural Theology (3 cr)
This course probes the possibility of knowing God’s existence through the light of human reason and from an existential and human perspective. Three aspects are discussed: the existence of God, his nature, and how the world relates to God.

PH 262 Philosophical Anthropology (2 cr)
This class is a philosophical inquiry into traditional and contemporary views on human nature. It reflects on the special dignity proper to the human person with the objective of understanding and forming the person according to ethics and philosophical principles. It includes exploration of the importance and proper ordering of the human faculties according to the responsible use of freedom and the nature and purpose of human values.

PH 264 Logic and Epistemology (3 cr)
Students examine the basic principles and rules of logical analysis, study the nature of knowledge, its sources and the certainty of those sources, and apply the results to religious faith.

PH 266 Metaphysics (3 cr)
This course explores the Thomistic system of metaphysics, probing into the idea of being, transcendental properties, substance and accident, act and potency, matter and form, and efficient and final causality. Students are encouraged to reflect on the fundamental questions and characteristics of existence, seeing the relations between this abstract science and the world around them.

PH 288 Ethics (3 cr)
Students study human acts, the morality of acts, conscience and how the human person makes morally binding decisions on the basis of objective and subjective motivations, intentions, knowledge and other factors.

PH 386 Foundations of Social and Individual Ethics (3 cr)
This is an introduction to social and individual ethics. Emphasis is placed on the means to establish a proper balance between personalism and the good of the community, individual liberty and law, moral principles and their application through individual conscience judgments in concrete circumstances.

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