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1 Course Number: PHS781 Course Title: Thomistic Personalism: Knowledge & Love Term: Fall 2016 Instructor Fr. Pawel Tarasiewicz [email protected] 1. COURSE DESCRIPTION This course focuses on the creative growth of Thomism known as Thomistic personalism. It provides the general landscape of Thomistic personalism by exploring a selected set of topics, namely cognition, freedom, love, society, dignity, culture and religion. In discussing them, the student is assisted by a broad range of outstanding Thomistic personalists including St. Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla). The course is recommended for those who want to gain a better understanding of human life, of their own and of others, from the perspective of Christian philosophy. 2. ENVISIONED LEARNING OUTCOMES The student will be able to demonstrate a familiarity with and understanding of the core teachings of Thomistic personalism, including its foundational philosophical ideas. The student will be able to explain and discuss a variety of topics related to Thomistic personalism, including the following: a) the differences and similarities between Thomistic personalism and non-Thomistic kinds of personalism; b) the way in which the person acquires wisdom and how wisdom differs from knowledge and understanding; c) the role of consciousness in the knowledge of the human person; d) the reasons for which lying undermines the freedom of the human person; e) the reasons for which the human person’s love for others is conditioned by his self-love; f) the nature of the friendship between human persons; g) the reasons for which the development of the human person is regarded as a common good proper to human societies; h) the borderline between the social participation and alienation of the human person; i) God’s role in explaining the dignity of the human person; j) the differences and similarities between Aquinas’s and John Paul II’s understanding of the dignity of the human person;
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Course Number: PHS781 Course Title: Thomistic Personalism: Knowledge & Love
Term: Fall 2016
Instructor
Fr. Pawel Tarasiewicz
1. COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course focuses on the creative growth of Thomism known as Thomistic personalism. It provides the general landscape of Thomistic personalism by exploring a selected set of topics, namely cognition, freedom, love, society, dignity, culture and religion. In discussing them, the student is assisted by a broad range of outstanding Thomistic personalists including St. Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla). The course is recommended for those who want to gain a better understanding of human life, of their own and of others, from the perspective of Christian philosophy.
2. ENVISIONED LEARNING OUTCOMES
The student will be able to demonstrate a familiarity with and understanding of the core teachings of Thomistic personalism, including its foundational philosophical ideas.
The student will be able to explain and discuss a variety of topics related to Thomistic personalism, including the following:
a) the differences and similarities between Thomistic personalism and non-Thomistic kinds of personalism;
b) the way in which the person acquires wisdom and how wisdom differs from knowledge and understanding;
c) the role of consciousness in the knowledge of the human person;
d) the reasons for which lying undermines the freedom of the human person;
e) the reasons for which the human person’s love for others is conditioned by his self-love;
f) the nature of the friendship between human persons;
g) the reasons for which the development of the human person is regarded as a common good proper to human societies;
h) the borderline between the social participation and alienation of the human person;
i) God’s role in explaining the dignity of the human person;
j) the differences and similarities between Aquinas’s and John Paul II’s understanding of the dignity of the human person;
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k) the reasons for which “theocentric humanism” is not an oxymoron;
l) the reasons for which the education of the human person is a basic task of culture;
m) the reasons for which the human person is, by nature, a religious being;
n) the reasons for which religion is based on the freedom of the human person.
3. COURSE SCHEDULE
The schedule below is focused on the Thomistic understanding of the human person. Each topic—being meant to be a background against which the personhood of man is manifested—is developed by two lectures wherein the first examines it from the perspective of existential Thomism (e.g., Etienne Gilson, Jacques Maritain, Mieczyslaw A. Krapiec, O.P.), and the second from the viewpoint of St. John Paul II’s (Karol Wojtyla’s) personalism. The aim of juxtaposing the views of the consistent Thomists with those of the one who sought to match Thomism with phenomenology is to discuss the transcendence (irreducibility, uniqueness, and incommunicability) and analogy (sharing in the same nature) of the human person as thoroughly as possible. The course is recommended for those who want to gain a better understanding of human life, of their own and of others, from the perspective of Christian philosophy.
Week 1 / Lecture 1: Thomistic Personalism: Transcendence and Analogy
(a) Filmed lecture.
(b) Additional readings:
-Thomas D. Williams and Jan Olof Bengtsson, “Personalism,” in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward N. Zalta (Spring 2014 Edition), http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/personalism/
-Peter Kreeft, „Thomersonalism,” or Thomistic Personalism (or Personalistic Thomism): A Marriage Made in Heaven, Hell, or Harvard?, University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX, Jan. 27, 2011, pp. 1-14, http://www.jp2forum.org/documents/events/kreeft-thompers.pdf [see also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwWI4PkLpkY].
-Michael Camacho, Thomistic Personalism: An Investigation, Explication and Defense, Boston College 2009, pp. 1-83, http://dlib.bc.edu/islandora/object/bc-ir:102062/datastream/PDF/view
-Thomas D. Williams, L.C., “What is Thomistic Personalism?,” Alpha Omega, VII, n. 2 (2004): 163-197, http://www.uprait.org/archivio_pdf/ao42_williams1.pdf
-Fr. Tomasz Duma, “Personalism in the Lublin School of Philosophy,” Studia Gilsoniana 5:2 (April–June 2016): 365–390, http://www.gilsonsociety.pl/studia-gilsoniana/5-2016/
(c) Assignment: Answer the question:
What are the differences and similarities between Thomistic personalism and non-Thomistic kinds of personalism?
Week 2 / Lecture 2: Cognition: a Thomistic Approach
(a) Filmed lecture.
(b) Additional readings:
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-Fr. Tomasz Duma, “To Know or to Think? The Controversy over the Understanding of Philosophical Knowledge in the Light of the Studies of Mieczyslaw A. Krapiec,” Studia Gilsoniana 3 (2014): 277-299, http://www.gilsonsociety.pl/studia-gilsoniana/3-2014/
-Peter Kreeft, “Aquinas’s Epistemology,” in Peter Kreeft, The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas (Recorded Books, LLC, 2009), 63-69, http://recordedbooks.com/courses_pdf/UT148.pdf
(c) Assignment: Answer the questions:
What is wisdom and how does it differ, if at all, from knowledge and understanding?
Week 3 / Lecture 3: Cognition: a Development of the Thomistic Approach by St. John Paul II
(a) Filmed lecture.
(b) Additional readings:
-Malgorzata Jalocho-Palicka, “Thomas Aquinas’ Philosophy of Being as the Basis for Wojtyla’s Concept and Cognition of Human Person,” Studia Gilsoniana 3 (2014): 127-153, www.gilsonsociety.pl/app/download/17351284/127-153-Jalocho.pdf
-Peter Emmanuel A. Mara, “Karol Wojtyla’s Theory of Consciousness,” https://www.academia.edu/1723514/Karol_Wojtylas_Theory_of_Consciousness
-Deborah Savage, “The Centrality of Lived Experience in Wojtyla’s Account of the Person,” Roczniki Filozoficzne 61:4 (2013): 19-51, https://tnkul.pl/files/userfiles/files/RF_61_2013_nr4_s019-051_Savage.pdf
-Catherine Peters, “Personal Participation in the Thomistic Account of Natural Law,” eJournal of Thomistic Personalism Vol. 4 (2015): 31-43, http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/rmlemmons/STP'Peters%20-%20Personal%20Participation%20in%20the%20Thomistic%20Account%20of%20Natural%20Law.pdf
-Janet E. Smith, “Natural Law and Personalism in Veritatis Splendor,” in Veritatis Splendor: American Responses, ed. Michael E. Allsopp and John J. O'Keefe (Sheed and Ward, 1995), 194-207, online version: http://icucourses.com/pages/002-03-personalism-and-natural-law
(c) Assignment: Answer the questions:
Why is consciousness not an autonomous subject?
Week 4 / Lecture 4: Freedom: a Thomistic Approach
(a) Filmed lecture.
(b) Additional readings:
-Morag M. Simpson, Thomas Aquinas’ concept of freedom in the context of his treatment of God’s knowledge of future contingents (2001), Chapter 4: Choice and deliberation, http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2046/1/2001simpsonphd.pdf
-Paul A. Camacho, God and Human Freedom (2007), Chapter V: Human Freedom, https://dlib.bc.edu/islandora/object/bc-ir:102444/datastream/PDF/view
(c) Assignment: Answer the questions:
Why does lying undermine (deprive us of) our freedom?
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Week 5 / Lecture 5: Freedom: a Development of the Thomistic Approach by St. John Paul II
(a) Filmed lecture.
(b) Additional reading:
-John F. Crosby, “Human Freedom,” Lay Witness Magazine (June 2000), http://006c203d95ce60a3db5b-ad8755431a4a130283f436a9de1a1575.r5.cf1.rackcdn.com/jun00crosby.pdf
(c) Assignment (by an e-mail to the professor):
Please present a draft plan for your term paper: What topic are you going to write on? Why is this topic worth to be explored? What bibliography are you going to resort to? The topic of your term paper should be approved by the professor in the fifth week of the course.
Week 6 / Lecture 6: Love: a Thomistic Approach
(a) Filmed lecture based on the following readings:
-Bradley R. Cochran, “Love and Charity in Aquinas: the Perfection of Intelligent Will,” https://theophilogue.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/love-and-charity-in-thomas-aquinas__the-perfection-of-intelligent-will__last_edit_061114__.pdf
-David M. Gallagher, “Thomas Aquinas on Self-Love as the Basis for Love of Others,” ACTA PHILOSOPHICA 8:1 (1999): 23-44, http://www.actaphilosophica.it/sites/default/files/pdf/gallagher-19991.pdf
-Steve Calogero, “Caritas and Consciousness: Aristotle and Aquinas on Love of Neighbor,” Philosophy and Theology 25:2 (2013): 167-180, https://www.viterbo.edu/sites/default/files/centers/d.b._reinhart_institute/caritasandconsciousness_aristotle_and_aquinas_on_love_of_neighbor.pdf
-William J. Hoye, “Human Love as Unfulfilling Union According to St. Thomas Aquinas” (2005), in La prospettiva di Tommaso d’Aquino. Atti, 516-524, http://hoye.de/aq/love.pdf
(b) Assignment: Answer the questions:
Why is it that our love for other persons is conditioned by our self-love?
Week 7 / Lecture 7: Love: a Development of the Thomistic Approach by St. John Paul II
(a) Filmed lecture based on the following readings:
-Livio Melina, “Love in the Horizon of Responsibility According to Karol Wojtyla,” Humanitas 1 (2011/2012): 10-25, http://www.humanitas.cl/html/HUMANITAS%20REVIEW%201.pdf
-Peter L.P. Simpson, “From ‘I’ To ‘We’: Wojtyła’s Phenomenology Of Love,” Far Eastern University Colloquium 3:1 (2009), http://www.aristotelophile.com/Books/Articles/FromItoWe.pdf
-Anastasia M. Northrop, “The Sincere Gift of Self. Freedom, Truth, Gift, Communion, Dignity, Love...,” http://www.jp2.info/Theology_of_the_Body.pdf
(b) Assignment: Answer the questions:
What are the differences and similarities between friendship and betrothed love?
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Week 8 / Lecture 8: Society: a Thomistic Approach
(a) Filmed lecture.
(b) Additional reading:
-Jacques Maritain, “The Person and the Common Good,” trans. John J. FitzGerald, The Review Of Politics 8:4 (October, 1946): 419-455, http://www.sfu.ca/classics/pdf/person.pdf.
(c) Assignment: Answer the questions:
Can the development of the human person be regarded as a common good proper to human societies?
Week 9 / Lecture 9: Society: a Development of the Thomistic Approach by St. John Paul II
(a) Filmed lecture.
(b) Additional readings:
-Dean Edward A. Mejos, “Against Alienation: Karol Wojtyla’s Theory of Participation,” Kritike 1:1 (June 2009): 71-85, http://www.kritike.org/journal/issue_1/mejos_june2007.pdf
-Rocco Buttiglione, “The Political Praxis of Karol Wojtyla and St. Thomas Aquinas,” Houston, 17-19 October 2013, http://www.jp2forum.org/mlib/document/030514buttiglione.%20p.a.s.t.a%20paper%202013.pdf
-James V. Schall, S. J., “Person and Society. John Paul II on Substance and Relation,” in Prophecy and Diplomacy: Moral Doctrine of John Paul II: A Jesuit Symposium, ed. John Conley and Joseph Koterski (New York: Fordham University Press, 1999), 3-30, http://jp2forum.org/articles_about_pope/god_and_man/schall_on_person_and_society.pdf
(c) Assignment: Answer the question:
What is the borderline between participation and alienation?
Week 10 / Lecture 10: Dignity: a Thomistic Approach
(a) Filmed lecture based on the following readings:
-Stephen L. Brock, “Is Uniqueness at the Root of Personal Dignity? John Crosby and Thomas Aquinas,” The Thomist 69 (2005): 173-201, http://bib26.pusc.it/fil/p_brock/uniqueness.pdf
-Alice Ramos, “The Dignity of Man and Human Action,” ACTA PHILOSOPHICA 10:2 (2001): 315-321, http://www.actaphilosophica.it/sites/default/files/pdf/ramos_2001_2-2.pdf
-Fred Guyette, “Thomas Aquinas and Recent Questions About Human Dignity,” Diametros 38 (2013): 113-127, http://www.diametros.iphils.uj.edu.pl/index.php/diametros/issue/view/40
(b) Assignment: Answer the question:
Is God necessary to explain human dignity?
Week 11 / Lecture 11: Dignity: a Development of the Thomistic Approach by St. John Paul II
(a) Filmed lecture based on the following readings:
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-Tracey Rowland, “John Paul II and Human Dignity” (2005), http://jp2institute.org/Portals/39/Documents/TR_JPII_and_Human_Dignity.pdf
-Jove Jim S. Aguas, “The Notions of the Human Person and Human Dignity in Aquinas and Wojtyla,” Kritike 3:1 (June 2009): 40-60, http://www.kritike.org/journal/issue_5/aguas_june2009.pdf
-Peter Emmanuel A. Mara, “Understanding Man as a Subject and a Person: A Wojtylan Personalistic Interpretation of the Human Being,” Kritike 1:1 (June 2007): 86-95, http://www.kritike.org/journal/issue_1/mara_june2007.pdf
-John J. Coughlin, “Pope John Paul II and the Dignity of the Human Being,” Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 27:1 (2003): 65-79, http://scholarship.law.nd.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1488&context=law_faculty_scholarship
(b) Assignment: Answer the question:
What are the differences and similarities between Aquinas’s and John Paul II’s understanding of human dignity?
Week 12 / Lecture 12: Culture: a Thomistic Approach
(a) Filmed lecture.
(b) Additional readings:
-John A. Gueguen, “Maritain’s Philosophy of Culture,” Notes et Documents 65 (2002): 72-82, http://my.ilstu.edu/~jguegu/JACQUESMARITAIN.pdf
-Donald P. Goodman III, “What is Culture?,” https://www.google.pl/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Donald+P.+Goodman+III+%22What+is+Culture%22
-Wojciech Daszkiewicz, “Culture from the Perspective of Realistic Philosophy,” Studia Gilsoniana 4:4 (October–December 2015): 393–403, http://www.gilsonsociety.pl/studia-gilsoniana/4-2015/
(c) Assignment: Answer the question:
Should we or should we not regard the notion “theocentric humanism” as an oxymoron?
Week 13 / Lecture 13: Culture: a Development of the Thomistic Approach by St. John Paul II
(a) Filmed lecture based on the following readings:
-R. Jared Staudt, “Culture in the Magisterium of Pope John Paul II: Evangelization through Dialogue and the Renewal of Society,” Claritas: Journal of Dialogue and Culture 3:1 (March 2014): 52-65, http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1066&context=claritas
-Raymond Dennehy, “Liberal Democracy as a Culture of Death: Why John Paul II Was Right,” Telos 134 (Spring 2006): 31-63, http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2008/dennehy_telos%20article.pdf
-William Brennan, “Pope John Paul II on Confronting the Language of the Culture of Death,” http://www.catholicsocialscientists.org/cssr/archival/volume%20ix/article--brennan.pdf
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-Kenneth L. Grasso, “John Paul II on Modernity, Freedom, and the Metaphysics of the Person,” The Catholic Social Science Review 15 (2010): 15-34, http://catholicsocialscientists.org/cssr/Archival/2010/Grasso%20-%20Symposium.pdf
(b) Assignment: Answer the question:
Why is education a basic task of culture?
Week 14 / Lecture 14: Religion: a Thomistic Approach
(a) Filmed lecture.
(b) Additional readings:
-Darrell D. Wright, “The Relationship Between Faith and Reason in St. Thomas Aquinas According to the “Christian Philosophy” of Etienne Gilson,” 1-37, https://archive.org/stream/TheRelationshipBetweenFaithAndReasonInStThomasAquinasAccordingToThe/faithAndReasonInStThomasAccordingToThechristianPhilosophyOfEtienneGilsonContraMcarthurPoemRevised4-14#page/n0/mode/2up
-Curtis L. Hancock, “Gilson on the Rationality of Christian Belief,” Studia Gilsoniana 1 (2012): 29-44, http://www.gilsonsociety.pl/studia-gilsoniana/1-2012/
-J. A. West, “Aquinas on Intellect, Will, and Faith,” Aporia 13:1 (2003): 1-13, http://aporia.byu.edu/pdfs/West-Aquinas_on_Intellect_Will_and_Faith.pdf
(c) Assignment: Answer the questions:
By nature the human being is a religious being: how do Thomists explain this claim?
Week 15 / Lecture 15: Religion: a Development of the Thomistic Approach by St. John Paul II
(a) Filmed lecture based on the following readings:
-“Message of John Paul II on the Value and Content of Freedom of Conscience and of Religion” (1980), http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/messages/pont_messages/1980/documents/hf_jp-ii_mes_19800901_helsinki-act.html
-Gerard Bradley, “Pope John Paul II and Religious Liberty,” Ave Maria Law Review 6:1 (Fall 2007): 33-59, http://lr.avemarialaw.edu/Content/articles/v6i1.bradley.copyright.0402.pdf
-Cardinal Avery Dulles, “John Paul II on Religious Freedom,” Humanitas 1 (2011/2012): 26-41, http://www.humanitas.cl/html/HUMANITAS%20REVIEW%201.pdf
(b) Assignment: Answer the question:
Why is freedom the basis of religion?
4. COURSE REQUIREMENTS
No exams or quizzes are scheduled for this course.
Prerequisite for writing the term paper (i.e. weekly lectures, readings and assignments) – 50%
Lectures: they are filmed, posted on Internet and available to students’ convenience. The lectures are accompanied with the additional readings; their objective is to present the general
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landscape of Thomistic personalism which accounts for the personhood of a man by showing the transcendent and analogical character of human existence.
Assignments: Each lecture is followed by a question which the students are to face in their training in Thomistic personalism. The answers are to be posted on the Populi Discussion Board so that they can be shared with classmates and checked by the professor. Each question is to be answered regularly: weekly answers are the basis on which the professor makes his reports regarding students’ attendance in the course.
Completion: When the weekly answers of the students are not questioned by the professor, this portion of the course is considered to be complete.
Term Paper – 50%
The student may write his/her term paper on any topic in Thomistic personalism. The topic of the term paper must be approved by the professor (during the fifth week of the course). The paper is due in the fourteenth week of the course. The required length for the paper is 25,000 to 35,000 characters (including spaces and foot notes).
5. REQUIRED READINGS and RESOURCES:
All the required readings are available online:
-Malgorzata Jalocho-Palicka, “Thomas Aquinas’ Philosophy of Being as the Basis for Wojtyla’s Concept and Cognition of Human Person,” Studia Gilsoniana 3 (2014): 127-153, www.gilsonsociety.pl/app/download/17351284/127-153-Jalocho.pdf
-Peter Kreeft, „Thomersonalism,” or Thomistic Personalism (or Personalistic Thomism): A Marriage Made in Heaven, Hell, or Harvard?, University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX, Jan. 27, 2011, pp. 1-14, http://www.jp2forum.org/documents/events/kreeft-thompers.pdf [see also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwWI4PkLpkY].
-Michael Camacho, Thomistic Personalism: An Investigation, Explication and Defense, Boston College 2009, pp. 1-83, http://dlib.bc.edu/islandora/object/bc-ir:102062/datastream/PDF/view
-Thomas D. Williams, L.C., “What is Thomistic Personalism?,” Alpha Omega, VII, n. 2 (2004): 163-197, http://www.uprait.org/archivio_pdf/ao42_williams1.pdf
-Fr. Tomasz Duma, “Personalism in the Lublin School of Philosophy,” Studia Gilsoniana 5:2 (April–June 2016): 365–390, http://www.gilsonsociety.pl/studia-gilsoniana/5-2016/
-Peter Kreeft, “Aquinas’s Epistemology,” in Peter Kreeft, The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas (Recorded Books, LLC, 2009), 63-69, http://recordedbooks.com/courses_pdf/UT148.pdf
-Fr. Tomasz Duma, “To Know or to Think? The Controversy over the Understanding of Philosophical Knowledge in the Light of the Studies of Mieczyslaw A. Krapiec,” Studia Gilsoniana 3 (2014): 277-299, http://www.gilsonsociety.pl/studia-gilsoniana/3-2014/
-Peter Emmanuel A. Mara, “Karol Wojtyla’s Theory of Consciousness,” https://www.academia.edu/1723514/Karol_Wojtylas_Theory_of_Consciousness
-Deborah Savage, “The Centrality of Lived Experience in Wojtyla’s Account of the Person,” Roczniki Filozoficzne 61:4 (2013): 19-51, https://tnkul.pl/files/userfiles/files/RF_61_2013_nr4_s019-051_Savage.pdf
-Morag M. Simpson, Thomas Aquinas’ concept of freedom in the context of his treatment of God’s knowledge of future contingents (2001), Chapter 4: Choice and deliberation, http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2046/1/2001simpsonphd.pdf
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-Paul A. Camacho, God and Human Freedom (2007), Chapter V: Human Freedom, https://dlib.bc.edu/islandora/object/bc-ir:102444/datastream/PDF/view
-John F. Crosby, “Human Freedom,” Lay Witness Magazine (June 2000), http://006c203d95ce60a3db5b-ad8755431a4a130283f436a9de1a1575.r5.cf1.rackcdn.com/jun00crosby.pdf
-Bradley R. Cochran, “Love and Charity in Aquinas: the Perfection of Intelligent Will,” https://theophilogue.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/love-and-charity-in-thomas-aquinas__the-perfection-of-intelligent-will__last_edit_061114__.pdf
-David M. Gallagher, “Thomas Aquinas on Self-Love as the Basis for Love of Others,” ACTA PHILOSOPHICA 8:1 (1999): 23-44, http://www.actaphilosophica.it/sites/default/files/pdf/gallagher-19991.pdf
-Steve Calogero, “Caritas and Consciousness: Aristotle and Aquinas on Love of Neighbor,” Philosophy and Theology 25:2 (2013): 167-180, https://www.viterbo.edu/sites/default/files/centers/d.b._reinhart_institute/caritasandconsciousness_aristotle_and_aquinas_on_love_of_neighbor.pdf
-William J. Hoye, “Human Love as Unfulfilling Union According to St. Thomas Aquinas” (2005), in La prospettiva di Tommaso d’Aquino. Atti, 516-524, http://hoye.de/aq/love.pdf
-Livio Melina, “Love in the Horizon of Responsibility According to Karol Wojtyla,” Humanitas 1 (2011/2012): 10-25, http://www.humanitas.cl/html/HUMANITAS%20REVIEW%201.pdf
-Peter L.P. Simpson, “From ‘I’ To ‘We’: Wojtyła’s Phenomenology Of Love,” Far Eastern University Colloquium 3:1 (2009), http://www.aristotelophile.com/Books/Articles/FromItoWe.pdf
-Anastasia M. Northrop, “The Sincere Gift of Self. Freedom, Truth, Gift, Communion, Dignity, Love...,” http://www.jp2.info/Theology_of_the_Body.pdf
-Jacques Maritain, “The Person and the Common Good,” trans. John J. FitzGerald, The Review Of Politics 8:4 (October, 1946): 419-455, http://www.sfu.ca/classics/pdf/person.pdf.
-Dean Edward A. Mejos, “Against Alienation: Karol Wojtyla’s Theory of Participation,” Kritike 1:1 (June 2009): 71-85, http://www.kritike.org/journal/issue_1/mejos_june2007.pdf
-Rocco Buttiglione, “The Political Praxis of Karol Wojtyla and St. Thomas Aquinas,” Houston, 17-19 October 2013, http://www.jp2forum.org/mlib/document/030514buttiglione.%20p.a.s.t.a%20paper%202013.pdf
-James V. Schall, S. J., “Person and Society. John Paul II on Substance and Relation,” in Prophecy and Diplomacy: Moral Doctrine of John Paul II: A Jesuit Symposium, ed. John Conley and Joseph Koterski (New York: Fordham University Press, 1999), 3-30, http://jp2forum.org/articles_about_pope/god_and_man/schall_on_person_and_society.pdf
-Stephen L. Brock, “Is Uniqueness at the Root of Personal Dignity? John Crosby and Thomas Aquinas,” The Thomist 69 (2005): 173-201, http://bib26.pusc.it/fil/p_brock/uniqueness.pdf
-Alice Ramos, “The Dignity of Man and Human Action,” ACTA PHILOSOPHICA 10:2 (2001): 315-321, http://www.actaphilosophica.it/sites/default/files/pdf/ramos_2001_2-2.pdf
-Fred Guyette, “Thomas Aquinas and Recent Questions About Human Dignity,” Diametros 38 (2013): 113-127, http://www.diametros.iphils.uj.edu.pl/index.php/diametros/issue/view/40
-Tracey Rowland, “John Paul II and Human Dignity” (2005), http://jp2institute.org/Portals/39/Documents/TR_JPII_and_Human_Dignity.pdf
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-Jove Jim S. Aguas, “The Notions of the Human Person and Human Dignity in Aquinas and Wojtyla,” Kritike 3:1 (June 2009): 40-60, http://www.kritike.org/journal/issue_5/aguas_june2009.pdf
-Peter Emmanuel A. Mara, “Understanding Man as a Subject and a Person: A Wojtylan Personalistic Interpretation of the Human Being,” Kritike 1:1 (June 2007): 86-95, http://www.kritike.org/journal/issue_1/mara_june2007.pdf
-John J. Coughlin, “Pope John Paul II and the Dignity of the Human Being,” Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 27:1 (2003): 65-79, http://scholarship.law.nd.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1488&context=law_faculty_scholarship
-John A. Gueguen, “Maritain’s Philosophy of Culture,” Notes et Documents 65 (2002): 72-82, http://my.ilstu.edu/~jguegu/JACQUESMARITAIN.pdf
-Donald P. Goodman III, “What is Culture?,” https://www.google.pl/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Donald+P.+Goodman+III+%22What+is+Culture%22
-R. Jared Staudt, “Culture in the Magisterium1 of Pope John Paul II: Evangelization through Dialogue and the Renewal of Society,” Claritas: Journal of Dialogue and Culture 3:1 (March 2014): 52-65, http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1066&context=claritas -Raymond Dennehy, “Liberal Democracy as a Culture of Death: Why John Paul II Was Right,” Telos 134 (Spring 2006): 31-63, http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2008/dennehy_telos%20article.pdf
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-Cardinal Avery Dulles, “John Paul II on Religious Freedom,” Humanitas 1 (2011/2012): 26-41, http://www.humanitas.cl/html/HUMANITAS%20REVIEW%201.pdf
-Catherine Peters, “Personal Participation in the Thomistic Account of Natural Law,” eJournal of Thomistic Personalism Vol. 4 (2015): 31-43, http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/rmlemmons/STP'Peters%20-%20Personal%20Participation%20in%20the%20Thomistic%20Account%20of%20Natural%20Law.pdf
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6. EVALUATION
GRADING SCALE:
A 94-100; A- 90-93; B+ 87-89; B 84-86; B- 80-83; C+ 77-79; C 74-76; C- 70-73 D 60-69; F 59 and below
Attendance – max. 75 points:
a) each on-time answer to the weekly assignment = 5 points (“on-time:” before or on Tuesday of the following week of the course);
b) each delayed answer to the weekly assignment = 3 points;
c) incomplete attendance: see “9. INCOMPLETE POLICY.”
Term Paper – max. 25 points:
a) the purpose and primary thesis are stated clearly (0-2 points);
b) the purported significance is explicitly stated (0-2 points);
c) relevant literature is integrated into the paper (0-6 points);
d) all theses are argued persuasively (0-6 points);
e) the writing is clear, concise and interesting (0-6 points);
f) the conclusion is accurate and supported by the content (0-3 points).
Students who have difficulty with research and composition are encouraged to pursue assistance with the Online Writing Lab (available at http://www.holyapostles.edu/owl).
7. DISABILITIES ACCOMMODATIONS POLICY
Holy Apostles College & Seminary is committed to the goal of achieving equal educational opportunities and full participation in higher education for persons with disabilities who qualify for admission to the College. Students enrolled in online courses who have documented disabilities requiring special accommodations should contact Bob Mish, the Director of Online Student Affairs, at [email protected] or 860-632-3015. In all cases, reasonable accommodations will be made to ensure that all students with disabilities have access to course materials in a mode in which they can receive them. Students who have technological limitations (e.g., slow Internet connection speeds in convents) are asked to notify their instructors the first week of class for alternative means of delivery.
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8. ACADEMIC HONESTY POLICY
Students at Holy Apostles College & Seminary are expected to practice academic honesty.
Avoiding Plagiarism
In its broadest sense, plagiarism is using someone else's work or ideas, presented or claimed as your own. At this stage in your academic career, you should be fully conscious of what it means to plagiarize. This is an inherently unethical activity because it entails the uncredited use of someone else's expression of ideas for another's personal advancement; that is, it entails the use of a person merely as a means to another person’s ends.
Students, where applicable:
Should identify the title, author, page number/webpage address, and publication date of works when directly quoting small portions of texts, articles, interviews, or websites.
Students should not copy more than two paragraphs from any source as a major component of papers or projects.
Should appropriately identify the source of information when paraphrasing (restating) ideas from texts, interviews, articles, or websites.
Should follow the Holy Apostles College & Seminary Stylesheet (available on the Online Writing Lab’s website at http://www.holyapostles.edu/owl/resources).
Consequences of Academic Dishonesty:
Because of the nature of this class, academic dishonesty is taken very seriously. Students participating in academic dishonesty may be removed from the course and from the program.
9. ATTENDANCE POLICY
Since all the lectures of the course are filmed, posted on Internet and available to student’s convenience, and all the readings are openly accessible online, e-mails and the Populi Discussion Board will be used for professor-student communications.
The professor is obliged to report online student attendance twice each semester (during or shortly after Weeks 2 and 5), and upon the request of Holy Apostles College and Seminary.
In a traditional classroom setting for a 3-credit course, students are required to be in class 3 hours a week and prepare for class discussions 4.5 hours a week. The student may expect to devote at least 7 quality hours a week to this course.
10. INCOMPLETE POLICY
An Incomplete is a temporary grade assigned at the discretion of the faculty member. It is typically allowed in situations in which the student has satisfactorily completed major components of the course and has the ability to finish the remaining work without re-enrolling, but has encountered extenuating circumstances, such as illness, that prevent his or her doing so prior to the last day of class.
To request an incomplete, distance-learning students must first download a copy of the Incomplete Request Form. This document is located within the Shared folder of the Files tab in Populi. Secondly, students must fill in any necessary information directly within the PDF document. Lastly, students must send their form to their professor via email for approval. “Approval” should be understood as the professor responding to the student’s email in favor of granting the “Incomplete” status of the student.
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Students receiving an Incomplete must submit the missing course work by the end of the sixth week following the semester in which they were enrolled. An incomplete grade (I) automatically turns into the grade of “F” if the course work is not completed.
Students who have completed little or no work are ineligible for an incomplete. Students who feel they are in danger of failing the course due to an inability to complete course assignments should withdraw from the course.
A “W” (Withdrawal) will appear on the student’s permanent record for any course dropped after the end of the first week of a semester to the end of the third week. A “WF” (Withdrawal/Fail) will appear on the student’s permanent record for any course dropped after the end of the third week of a semester and on or before the Friday before the last week of the semester.
11. ABOUT THE PROFESSOR
Fr. Pawel Tarasiewicz, Ph.D. -M.A. in theology: Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, Poland (1994) -Ph.D. in philosophy: John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland (2002) -Adjunct faculty member: HACS (as well as a chair of the Ethics Concentration, and a Liaison-Dean of Affiliate Graduate Philosophy Program—at present: Ph.D. program in philosophy at the Catholic University of Lublin, Poland) -Senior faculty member: Seminary of the Diocese of Elk, Poland -Fellow: Adler-Aquinas Institute, Manitou Springs, CO, USA -Member: International Etienne Gilson Society, and International Thomas Aquinas Society -Editor-in-chief: Studia Gilsoniana [http://www.gilsonsociety.pl/studia-gilsoniana/] -Areas of philosophical interest: personalism, Christian philosophy, Lublin Philosophical School -Any questions regarding the course? Please do not hesitate to write at: [email protected]
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