Tuesday, January 23, 2007

A Thomistic Order of Learning

first thoughts...

Bachelor of Arts
  • Trivium + Quadrivium (including logic and arithmetic, geometry)
  • For terminal degrees: ethics, introduction to philosophy of nature
  • supplemented by literature and history (as supplements, not to displace the primary roles played by rhetoric and logic, which are aimed at preparing one for composition and speech)

Master of Philosophy
  • philosophy of nature (including examination and critique of the scientific method; dialectical examination of accumulated data)
  • ethics and politics (begin with Aristotle's politics, supplemented by sociological studies of various cultures and economies; includes a historical inquiry into the development of medieval political theory and rights/natural law theory)
  • metaphysics
  • advanced mathematics (including examination and critique of modern number theory, calculus, etc.)
Dialectical examination of other opinions (historical study) subsumed within the above.

Theology
positive theology
Sacra Pagina
Church Fathers
dogmatic theology -- councils and decrees
speculative theology

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