Thomas E. Davitt — “St. Thomas Aquinas and the Natural Law” 1. Meaning of LawFor Aquinas, law is not merely written rules but a rational ordering in the mind of someone with authority, directing means toward the common good and then promulgated….
read more2023 Fall MU & KUL Simple Index Course Webpages 31 Aug. Introduction to the course: (1) Overview of the course and its procedures, including note taking (Aquinas texts) ; (2) Review of key relevant teachings of Aristotle as background and context for Aquinas…
read moreOn this site I will list EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITIES. These are for all students but they are most valuable for students who have missed or done badly on Quizzes or who have failed to turn in the Required Homework Notes & Class…
read moreSimple Website Index How to do argumentative philosophy essays* I. IntroductionThomas Edison’s much quoted remark that invention is l% inspiration and 99% perspiration is perhaps a case of self-effacing understatement. Nevertheless, his point, when applied to the matter of writing philosophy essays,…
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read moreMarquette University: Phil 664 Thomas Aquinas. / KU Leuven: Aquinas in Context Tentative Syllabus: updates forthcoming Planning Phil 6640 Fall 2022 Divine Being Some Recommended Summer Reading Before Class BeginsChristopher Shields, “Aristotle,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) available online.Barnes, Jonathan, Aristotle: A…
read more1 February 2021, 3:30-5:00 PM, US Central Time: Stephen J. Shoemaker, “Creating the Qur’an: The Making of the Last Ancient Scripture,” Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin – Madison, via Zoom. See https://irh.wisc.edu/event/creating-the-quran-the-making-of-the-last-ancient-scripture/.
read more(Class 13) 19 November (Last MU class meeting): Principles of Ethics Texts Link Part 1 : Aristotle and the Classical Rationalist Islamic Tradition on the Principles of Ethics KUL-6 : handout of absolutely not more than 6 pp. + 2 pp bibliography…
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