THIS COURSE HAS CONCLUDED. THE FOLLOWING LESSONS ARE PRE-RECORDED VIDEOS FROM THE LATE FALL OF 2021.
Required Texts:
Aristotle's Metaphysics
St. Thomas Aquinas's On Being and Essence.
Please note that Aristotle's Metaphysics can be found online at: http://classics.mit.edu/ Aristotle/metaphysics.html
Likewise St. Thomas's On Being and Essence can be found online at: https://isidore.co/ aquinas/english/DeEnte& Essentia.htm
(Please note that the paragraph numbers listed below for St. Thomas's On Being and Essence are taken from this online translation)
Suggested Secondary Texts:
Etienne Gilson's Christian Philosophy: An Introduction
Josef Pieper's The Silence of St. Thomas.
Reading Requirements:
Week 1 - Aristotle's Metaphysics, Bk. 1, chaps. 1-2; Bk. 2, chaps. 1-3.
Week 2 - Aristotle's Metaphysics, Bk. 4, chaps. 1-4
Week 3 - Aristotle's Metaphysics, Bk. 5, chaps. 1-2
Week 4 - St. Thomas's On Being and Essence, #s 1-65
Week 5 - St. Thomas's On Being and Essence, #s 66-87
Week 6 - St. Thomas's On Being and Essence, #s 88-98
Week 7 - St. Thomas's Summa theologiae, I, q. 44, articles 1-4
Week 8 - St. Thomas's On Being and Essence, #s 99-113
Course Content
Week One
Week Two
Week Three
Week Four
Week Five
Week Six
Week Seven
Week Eight
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