Readings and notes for Philosophy 439

Seminar on Faith and Reason


 
 
 
 
Notes on Some of the Readings
On-Line Texts
Related papers by instructor

 
 

Notes on Some of the Readings


 

St. Thomas Aquinas, Treatise on Faith


 

St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles 1, chaps. 1-9


 

St. Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologiae 1, q. 1


 
 
 
 

 
 

On-Line Texts


 

Plato: Phaedo


 

Plato: Republic (traits of the philosopher:  471C-505B)


 

St. Thomas Aquinas: Treatise on Faith
(from Summa Theologiae 1-2)


 

St. Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologiae 1, q. 1
(my translation)


 

St. Thomas Aquinas: Summa Contra Gentiles 1,
chaps. 1-9 (condensed)


 

Rene Descartes: Discourse on Method, pts. 1-3
(part 4 thrown in for free)


 

John Locke, An Essay Concerning
Human Understanding, Book IV, chaps 16-21


 

Immanuel Kant: What is Enlightenment?


 

John Henry Newman, Oxford Sermons 7, 10, 11, and 13


 

G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, chaps. 2 and 3


 

Pope John Paul II: Fides et Ratio


 

 

Related papers by instructor


 

Primer on Summa Contra Gentiles 1, chaps. 1-9


 

Whose Standards of Excellence? 
Secularity and the Mission of the University


 

Two Roles for Catholic Philosophers


 

Fides et Ratio: A 'Radical' Vision of Intellectual Inquiry


 

Ockham on Faith and Reason

 
 Christian Faith as a Way of Life