CP

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CP

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course

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2025-2026

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stb.highland.dev

Truth and Goodness in Plato’s Republic What is the good? What is truth? What does it mean that human beings are rational? What is wisdom and what does it have to do with human happiness? In reflecting on these questions, it is not difficult to see how very often the good is reduced either to individual taste or to the product of procedural agreement; how truth is identified with appearances and mere subjective opinions; how reason is misunderstood as a mere instrument for the accumulation of information and power; and how wisdom is usually understood as the pastime of few enthusiasts, often because happiness has been identified with some rudimentary form of pleasure. In his Republic, Plato brings up once again these questions – What is the good? What is truth? What is reason? What are wisdom and happiness? – and proposes to us a life-changing journey made of philosophical questioning, successful and unsuccessful arguments, illuminating dead-ends, puzzling irony, daring reflections on politics and art, and much more. In the Republic we find one of the most comprehensive expositions of Plato’s views on philosophy, which challenge beyond measure the contemporary assumptions on and reductions of the good and the true. If the horizon of our life is often vitiated by self- undermining prejudices and limiting views – the “cave,” as Plato says – what Plato offers is nothing else than a call to a renewed, liberating understanding of what genuine goodness and truth are. Thus, the aim of the course is to journey with Plato and ask once again what does it mean to be human through a reading of his masterpiece, the Republic. 3 Credits.

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CP

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2

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2

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course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

stb.highland.dev

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CP

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course

Edition

2025-2026

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stb.highland.dev

Thesis in Catholic Philosophy.

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CP

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3

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3

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course

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2025-2026

Source

stb.highland.dev

Thesis in Catholic Philosophy. 3 Credits. 27

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CP

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course

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2025-2026

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stb.highland.dev

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CP

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course

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2025-2026

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stb.highland.dev

Subject

CP

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course

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2025-2026

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stb.highland.dev

Subject

CP

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course

Edition

2025-2026

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stb.highland.dev

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CP

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course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

stb.highland.dev

Subject

CP

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

stb.highland.dev

(offered every other Fall: 2025, 2027) This course will consider the nature of knowledge, whether the human mind can know things as they really are, the twofold nature of human cognition (normative and empirical/rational and sensual), the relationship between the human person’s empirical and normative knowledge, the different kinds of knowing as well as their degrees, the different approaches to truth, belief, and error, and the metaphysical underpinnings of different approaches to the aforementioned concerns. 3 Credits.

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CP

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

stb.highland.dev

(offered Summer: 2027, 2029) This course offers an examination of the ancient and medieval accounts of the natural world, specifically their understanding of nature, change, space, time, purpose, chance, and the principles upon which they rest. This is perhaps the most fundamental of all philosophy courses and, together with logic, establishes the vocabulary basic to the whole of the Catholic philosophical tradition. 3 Credits.

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CP

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course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

stb.highland.dev

Subject

CP

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

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stb.highland.dev

Approved Elective: ______________________________ 48

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CP

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

stb.highland.dev

(offered every other Summer: 2026, 2028) This course concerns the natural ascent of the human mind to a knowledge of the existence and the attributes of God – can God’s existence be proven, and can our language at least begin to represent God’s attributes without falling purely into metaphorical language or simple anthropomorphisms?

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CP

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

stb.highland.dev

(offered every other Spring: 2026, 2028) This course investigates the philosophical discussion surrounding the human person. We appeal to the major writers on this subject with an emphasis upon the Socratic, Platonic, Aristotelian, Augustinian, and Thomistic traditions, engaging primarily original texts themselves and also their incorporation into modern models of the human person, particularly the personalism of Pope St. John Paul II. Among the aspects considered in this course are the following: what is meant by “body” and “soul”; how has the relation that exists between the two been articulated; how do we distinguish and understand the difference between the human person’s animality and his rationality; how do we describe human cognition, choice/free will, the human person’s affective life, and the social and spiritual aspects of our humanity; what is meant by the human person being made to the image and likeness of God (Genesis 1:27); can it be shown that the human person survives his death? 3 Credits.

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CP

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course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

stb.highland.dev

Subject

CP

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

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stb.highland.dev

Subject

CP

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course

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2025-2026

Source

stb.highland.dev

Graduates’ Colloquium (Non-Credit) 39

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CP

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course

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2025-2026

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stb.highland.dev