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.
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