Course
GP224 - Metaphysics [St. Thomas Aquinas, Disputed Questions on Truth]
General Information
| Course Type | On Campus |
| Course Category | P7. Elective Courses |
| Description | Teaching Objective: To help the students to 1) acquire skills in reading, explaining, and commenting on texts from the Quaestiones disputatae De Veritate by St. Thomas Aquinas; 2) understand the method of the “Quaestiones disputatae” in the cultural context of the time; 3) grasp the most theoretically relevant topics, particularly “truth” as a property of being and the “divine ideas”; 4) have an in-depth study of St. Thomas's metaphysics through comparison with other authors and consideration of modern and contemporary metaphysical debate. Teaching Content: Questions I and III of the Quaestiones disputatae De Veritate by St. Thomas Aquinas: the properties of being; the uniqueness of truth; divine truth; the relationship between divine truth and created truth; falsehood; ideas in general; divine ideas; the questions of the idea of evil and the idea of prime matter. Teaching Mode: Lecture and Class Presentation. Assessment Mode: Class Participation, Written Assignment, and Oral Examination |
| College Organization Structure | Holy Spirit Institute of Philosophy |
| Course Tuition Fee | 1380.00 |
| Course Combination | There is no records at the moment. |
