Individual courses

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.

This course offers a comprehensive introduction to Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, highlighting its revolutionary impact on the history of philosophy.

Declensions, conjugations, ablative, gerundive... an introduction to the Latin language, mother of Romance languages.

This course explores the major philosophical currents that shaped Latin American identity throughout the 20th century. 

Liturgy is primary theology.

The course provides the theological and historical foundations for understanding the evolution of Christian liturgical forms, and pastoral practice. The course will examine the major moments in the historical development of the liturgy in both East and West from the New Testament era with its Jewish foundations to the present.

The course will examine the major moments in the historical development of the liturgy in both East and West from the New Testament era with its Jewish foundations to the present. Attention will be given to the role of ritual and symbol in human life, the relationship of liturgy to society and culture, and critical approaches to liturgical practice.

Organizations are conceived as systems and as such are embedded in an environment. 

The Marketing Management course will take participants through market analysis, marketing strategy development, marketing plans delivery and the need for marketing metrics.

This course offers a comprehensive introduction to Martin Heidegger’s philosophy through a study of his central question: the meaning of Being. 

This course presents mediation as a conflict-resolution process based on dialogue, responsibility, and the parties’ autonomy, while respecting their dignity.

This course examines the reception of Aristotle’s philosophy in the medieval Arab-Islamic world through its logical, ethical, and political dimensions.

E-seminar in Theology

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.

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.

This course offers a systematic introduction to Metaphysics, or the Philosophy of Being, the branch of philosophy that studies being as being and investigates the ultimate causes and principles of reality.