MCE605 Faith and Reason
This course will expose students to both faith and reason’s relationship to the pursuit of truth. It will also examine the limits of both and the ways in which they interact with one another. Texts might include: Sophocles’ Antigone, Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound, Plato Euthyphro, John Paul II’s Fides et Ratio, St. Thomas Aquinas’ Question I of Summa Theologiae, St. Augustine’s De Doctrina Christiana (Books I-III), St. Basil’s "Address to Young Men on the Right Use of Greek Literature", Pope Benedict XVI, "Regensburg Address",Josef Pieper’s "The Philosophic Act'' from Leisure: The Basis of Culture.