Learning Outcomes

Upon successfully completing the Philosophy program, students will be able to...

Situate oneself in the Western philosophical tradition of ethical and metaphysical questions and reasoning;
Account to oneself and to others for the bases of one’s actions;
Reckon with the consequences of one’s own and other’s practical reasoning in various contexts, both personal and political;
Raise metaphysical questions in various concrete, lived, literary, and political contexts;
Distinguish and relate the architectonic questions of metaphysics from and to the specialized questions of the sciences and other disciplines;
Discern the interconnection between various modes of ethical and political reflection and distinct metaphysical positions;
Pose to oneself the questions raised by the claims of the Christian faith on one’s own ethical and metaphysical reasoning; and
Read new or contemporary works in the ongoing tradition of dialectical philosophy with all these abilities at one’s disposal.

Philosophy