Philosophy
Access: There are no prerequisites for these short courses. The course material is university level.
Length of Studies: 12 months
Validation: Each of the five courses is assessed by a written assignment.
Certificate in Philosophy
The study of « the love of Wisdom » has long been accepted as the foundation of theological study. These carefully chosen 5 courses offer students the opportunity to explore this science by offering a structured and guided study of some of some well know philosophes.
The first two courses look at metaphysics. Metaphysics is the study of things in their ultimate causes. Aristotle called Metaphysics “first philosophy” or “theology” since it leads to the first principle or the ultimate explanation of all things.
Plato ranks as one of the most important thinkers in the Western philosophical tradition, and we are pleased to offer this course on Plato in this diploma. This course introduces the student to some of the fundamental ideas that inform his works as well as guiding the student through some developments in his presentation of these ideas. The subsequent two courses look at some of the key elements in Aristotle's thought and the key ideas of Kant., notably Freedom as a key concept to understand his philosophy.
Philosophy
Metaphysics 1
Metaphysics 2
Plato
Aristotle
Kant
List of Courses
Introduction to Plato
Plato ranks as one of the most important thinkers in the Western philosophical tradition. This module introduces the student to some of the fundamental ideas that inform his works as well as guiding the student through some developments in his presentation of these ideas.
Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition
This course introduces some of the key elements in Aristotle's thought.
Metaphysics - Part 1
Metaphysics is the study of things in their ultimate causes. As such, the specialty of metaphysics is that it seeks the final explanation or the ultimate causes of things precisely in so far as they are, in so far as they exist, or in so far as they are real. Aristotle called it “First Philosophy” or “Theology” since it leads to the first principle or the ultimate explanation of all things.
Metaphysics - Part 2
All human knowledge begins with sense experience but can terminate sometimes in the senses, or in the imagination or in the intellect alone . Accordingly we can distinguish between three levels of scientific knowledge corresponding to the three degrees of abstraction from matter which can be made by the intellect in its examination of reality.
Kant: A philosophy of Freedom
According to Gibelin in his Foreword to Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone, Freedom is the central theme of Kant’s philosophy. This course will introduce to Kant, centering on Freedom as a key concept to understand his philosophy, in the three spheres defined by the critical project: Metaphysics, Moral and Aesthetics.