| PLTL 1111 | History of Philosophy I An initiation into philosophical thinking focusing on ancient and medieval philosophy. Special attention to the influences of Greek philosophy and the Gospel on each other. Includes: pre-Socratics; Socrates; Plato; Aristotle; Stoicism; Epicureanism; Neoplatonism; Augustine; Boethius; Bonaventure; and Aquinas. Pretheology program/undergraduate credit only. 3 credits. |
| PLTL 1112 | History of Philosophy II An examination of four themes in modern and contemporary philosophy, starting with Ockham and Bacon through Descartes, Locke, the Empiricists, Enlightenment and contemporaries: the mind-body problem; success of the natural sciences; expansion of liberty and equality; the question of God. Pretheology program/undergraduate credit only. 3 credits. |
| PLTL 1211 | Philosophical Ethics The question of the moral nature of human action, what makes actions good and bad and how this is knowable. Different ethical systems are examined along with the metaphysics they presuppose. Representative authors studied include Aristotle, Aquinas, Kant and Mill. Pretheology program/undergraduate credit only. 3 credits. |
| PLTL 1214 | Philosophy of Person Basic issues of human reality and philosophical anthropology, including: fact of being; relation of body and soul; cognition; spirituality; relation of self to society; religion; and death. St. Thomas' realist metaphysics, contemporary existentialism and phenomenological methodology are employed to discuss the spirituality of the soul. The role of imagination and subconscious, the meaning of male and female and the role of the person in society. Pretheology program/undergraduate credit only. 3 credits. |
| PLTL 1218 | Philosophy of Being A classical description of being in terms of essence of being; substance and accidents; transcendental characteristics of being; the laws of being such as the four causes. Alternative metaphysical systems as related to theology. Pretheology program/undergraduate credit only. 3 credits. |
| PLTL 1411 | Logic and Epistemology A study of logic, including the structure of reason; the rules reason uses to attain to truth; the relation between traditional logic and modern symbolic knowledge. A study of epistemology, including a consideration of the ontological nature of human knowledge as knowledge, followed by an historical survey of epistemological theory with special emphasis on the rise of critical philosophy in the modern period. Pretheology program/undergraduate credit only. 3 credits. |
| PLTL 1412 | Contemporary Philosophy Essential preparation for reading contemporary theology through a survey of contemporary philosophy, including: phenomenology; existentialism; transcendental Thomism; Marxism; logical positivism; analytical philosophy; and process philosophy. Pretheology program/undergraduate credit only. 3 credits. |
| PLTL 1416 | Philosophy of God That part of metaphysics dealing with Being that is first absolutely. First principles and natural knowledge; arguments for the existence of God; ways to God, including the Thomistic approach; pantheism; Divine attributes. Pretheology program/undergraduate credit only. 3 credits. |