Individual courses

Can we be both Christians and genuine philosophers? Are faith and philosophy mutually exclusive, or not?

Can we be both Christians and genuine philosophers? Are faith and philosophy mutually exclusive, or not?

There are many different spiritual pathways that were born in the Indian sub-continent: Buddhist, Jain, Sikh, for example, and others that came to India such as Christian and Muslim. Hindu spirituality which represents the spiritual quest of the vast majority of the people of India is rooted in the relentless and uninterrupted search of the seers from the Indian sub-continent.

“An Introduction to Aesthetics” is a preliminary descriptive course on the main aspects of the whole research area of Aesthetics. The aim of the course is introduce the students to the world of Aesthetics.

This course was born out of an effort to interpret the language of Traditional Africa in terms of Western philosophy, and at the same time to see if the latter did not perhaps have, not only correlations with, but even discernible roots in the former.

This course seeks to introduce students to analytic philosophy. 

This course examines Thomas Aquinas’ understanding of friendship and its essential role in the pursuit of true happiness. Drawing on Aristotle, Cicero, Scripture, and St. Augustine, it explores the philosophical and theological foundations of happiness and friendship before presenting Aquinas’ synthesis. 

This course introduces some of the key elements in Aristotle's thought. 

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to epistemology, the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature, sources, justification, and limits of human knowledge. 

Legal, Philosophical and Moral dimension

Investigators have a duty to ensure subjects give not only informed, but voluntary consent?

Concerned with restoring and strengthening bonds between professionals, patients and families, not simply dealing with principles like bioethics.

Law is a juridical system that organizes the social aspects of humankind. For that reason the systematic oranization, the content and the governing principle of canon law and its different branches should and do conform to how well the Church’s social dimension and social structures are understood at each moment in time.

To show the implications of normative theories for specific moral issues or contemporary debates on particular ethical issues.

To show the implications of normative theories for specific moral issues or contemporary debates on particular ethical issues.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (henceforth UDHR) is both a point of arrival and a point of departure regarding our contemporary understanding of human rights. As a point of arrival, the UDHR is the result of an attempt to collate the “wisdom of the ages,” in order to find the best way to ensure the protection of the rights of all—especially after the atrocities committed during the two world wars.

This course offers a comprehensive and systematic study of David Hume’s philosophy, presenting him as one of the most influential figures of the Scottish Enlightenment and a central representative of modern empiricism.

Explore the challenges and future of democracy, including human rights, inequality, authoritarianism, and civic engagement through case studies and critical analysis.

Divine Impassibility: A Thomistic Critique of Jürgen Moltmann’s Staurocentric Trinitarianism

Jaco Kruger provides an introduction to philosophical questions regarding the experience of home and the possibility of using this experience as an entryway to an examination of the human condition. 

This seminar will take place online from October 5 to November 29, 2026

This seminar examines the ethical challenges raised by contemporary technologies such as artificial intelligence, digital surveillance, and data-driven systems. It explores issues of responsibility, justice, privacy, and human agency through interdisciplinary analysis and concrete case studies. Participants will develop critical tools to engage with current debates on algorithmic bias, digital rights, and the social impact of emerging technologies.

This seminar will take place from March 1 to April 25, 2027.

This seminar aims to offer students an immersion in processual metaphysics, exploring its conceptual foundations and interdisciplinary implications. The approach adopted is not limited to theoretical understanding: it also engages in critical reflection on how processual thinking can transform our views of knowledge, ethics and social relations.

This seminar will take place from March 1 to April 25, 2027.

E-seminar in philosophy

Didier Peters

From 14 April to 8 June 2025

This seminar examines the ethical, philosophical, and social challenges raised by human enhancement technologies. Through an interdisciplinary approach combining philosophy, medicine, and technology studies, participants will explore debates on genetic engineering, neurotechnology, life extension, human dignity, and the moral limits of bioenhancement.

This Seminar will take place from October 4 to November 28, 2027.

This e-seminar in Philosophy will take place from 6th October to 30th November 2025. Srećko Koralija explores the roles of leadership and followership in a world increasingly influenced by artificial intelligence and algorithmic decision-making.

This e-seminar in Philosophy will take place from 30 September to 24 November 2024. Dive into contemporary struggles with Maxime Allard. Justice, recognition, religion: three inseparable concepts for understanding the place of women today. Martha Nussbaum serves as our compass, with her insights that shed light and inspire action. This seminar invites you to question the mechanisms that are still blocking the recognition of women in the world.

SEM 43 - Philosophy and religious Studies

April 20th - June 15th, 2020

presented by Isaac Mutelo

E-seminar in Philosophy and Law

by Isaac Mutelo

From 3rd October to 28th November 2022

This seminar will take place from 6th October to 30th November 2025. It explores the ethical implications of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics by engaging with key ethical issues and aspects, including privacy, autonomous systems, job displacement, algorithmic bias, surveillance issues, and the moral status of machines.

E-seminar in Philosophy/Religion
by Isaac Mutelo
From 02 october to 27 november 2023

SEM - Philosophy 

5th October - 30th November 2020 

presented by Rajen Lakra

E-seminar in Philosophy
by Jaco Kruger
From 17th April to 12th June 2023

E-seminar - Philosophy and Natural Law
by Lorenzo Gallo
From 5th to 26th July 2021 - Summer Course

This e-seminar in Philosophy will take place from 6th October to 30th November 2025.

E-seminar in Philosophy and Social Sciences
by Jaco Kruger
From 11th April to 6th June 2022

The aim of this course is to provide students with a systematic and comprehensive introduction to some of the key themes in Epistemology (the theory of knowledge). The course gives a good introduction, then moves to the analysis of “knowledge” in general, with an introduction of historical elements in the development of Epistemology (begins with Gnoseology and the Epistemology).

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics by combining conceptual, analytical, and ethical perspectives. 

This course offers a structured and rigorous journey through the history of ethics, from Plato to contemporary utilitarianism, in order to highlight the diversity of possible foundations for morality. 

This course introduces the philosophical foundations of ethics through a close reading of the major works of Plato and Aristotle. It begins by defining ethics as a branch of philosophy concerned with the rational search for the good, before examining the origins of ethical thought in ancient Greece. 

An Accommodation for a Christian Approach to the World Religions and Interreligious Dialogue in the Line of Jacques Dupuis

Explore the concept of civilization and ecological civilization, its philosophical foundations, ethical implications, and the risks of civilizational collapse.

The main objective of this unit is to get an above all understanding of what Indian Philosophy is and in what circumstances it has developed. Though Indian Philosophy has developed in different parts of India it has many common characteristics hence the student is likely to know a few important ones. Furthermore, one should have a basic understanding of what Indian philosophy is accused of.

By Studying this particular unit one must be able to understand what is the meaning of Upaniṣad, how it was developed from Vedas and what are its main teachings and how they reach their logical culmination in the identity of the self and the Brahman. One must also be able to understand the Upaniṣadic view point of bondage and liberation along with the cosmogony and puruṣārtas.

The main objective of the conclusion is to introduce the students to the different systems of Indian Philosophy as it deals with various philosophical thoughts of several traditions originated in Indian Subcontinent.

Etymologically, the word "Epistemology", from the Greek, means the science of knowledge. It is an investigation of knowledge and its problems. A synonymous term is Criteriology which again from the Greek means to distinguish or judge. It deals with testin g knowledge to find truth or detect error.

The modern epistemological problem has two aspects:

1. The opposition between science and philosophy or truth and error. We find this basically in Descartes and Kant.

2. The conflict between science and science or that of contemporary and classic physics and not an opposition between science and philosophy or truth and error.

We derive our inspiration from at least two distinct traditions: the Jewish and the Christian. It is important that we should be aware of this! A whole set of questions are implied here. What is the relationship between God and the Jewish traditi on, God and Jesus, God and the church?

This course will introduce the students to the historical beginning of bioethics, as well as some of the moral theories employed in bioethics discourse.
 

This course is the second part to Introduction to Moral theories in Bioethics I.
The course will introduce the students to the historical beginning of bioethics, as well as some of the moral theories employed in bioethics discourse.

This course introduces students to the philosophy of law by examining the nature, purpose, and justification of legal systems and their relationship to morality, politics, and society.

This course introduces philosophy as a rigorous academic discipline concerned with fundamental questions about existence, knowledge, values, reason, and human life.

This course introduces the two great founders of Western philosophy through their complementary approaches. The first part explores Plato’s thought, focusing on the search for truth, virtue, the immortality of the soul, and the Theory of Forms, while highlighting the central role of Socrates, dialogue, and dialectical inquiry.

The course aims at furnishing the student withe the appropriate tools for a meaningful of the Biblical text, with particular reference to its spiritual, liturgical and pastoral context. The course will further aim at providing a basis familiarity with, and a critical assessment of contemporary exegetical methods.

This course introduces you to the debates about the meaning of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke/Acts. What were the theological interests of the authors of the Synoptic Gospels?

What is the Jesus presented in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke like? How did he understand himself? How did the Evangelists understand him? Is that the same or different to the understanding of the disciples?

This course will provide a general introduction to Theology.

This course offers an advanced introduction to contemporary epistemology and the philosophy of science through a critical examination of scepticism, epistemic justification, and the nature of scientific knowledge. 

A Systematic Review and Hermeneutic Exploration of the Management of Incidental Findings in Genomic Research

This course offers a rigorous and engaging exploration of John Locke’s philosophy by closely integrating his political thought and epistemology through the study of his major works, particularly Two Treatises of Government and An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.

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.