In a previous post, I described the various Course Guides that I use for my philosophy courses. On the one hand, they are not textbooks, although they do include materials that would otherwise be handouts. On the other hand, the Guides are not manuals, as they contain many questions designed to help students think through … Continue reading Natural Philosophy Course
Over the past several years, I have been fortunate to teach philosophy to the seminarians of the Wichita Diocese. They attend Newman University and live in community at the St. Joseph House of Formation. Since Newman has a very small philosophy faculty, I’ve also had to teach most of the curriculum. In this post, I … Continue reading Philosophy Course Guides
I review two recent books over at Thomistica, with some comments regarding philosophical pedagogy. An excerpt: The above two books by Prof. Houser and Fr. Dodds are recent entries in what could be an unofficial series answering to Msgr. Sokolowski’s call for “textbooks” that aid students and teachers, especially those in undergraduate programs that are … Continue reading The return of the manuals?
The short essay, “Thomism for the New Evangelization,” by Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P., is an illuminating and moving proposal that outlines how Thomism is necessary for the new evangelization. He proposes six touchstones so that “we who are all committed in some way to the evangelization of our culture can think about the truth not as … Continue reading A Thomism for the New Evangelization
Thanks to the good folks at Universidad Gabriela Mistral, and my good friend Pablo Maillet, my short extension course, a series of lectures on “God and Philosophy,” came to a successful close this week. A short description and news story from UGM can be found here. The Spanish text reads: Yesterday saw the successful conclusion … Continue reading Chilean philosophy course comes to a close …
John G. Brungardt 