RPC / TWU courses taught by Dr. C. S. Morrissey
Assistant Professor of Medieval Latin Philosophy, Redeemer Pacific College

Style Sheet for essay footnotes and bibliography [Brief Version]

Philosophy 101 Socrates:
witness to truth, proto-martyr,
opposed to "the way of sheer power", and "in a certain respect, the prophet of Jesus Christ"



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HIST 302: Greece and Rome (Leadership in the Ancient World)

The Making of Europe Plutarch Greek Lives Plutarch Roman Lives


LATN 211 & LATN 212: Medieval Ecclesiastical Latin

These courses prepare you to read the Latin of St. Jerome's Vulgate Bible translation and St. Thomas Aquinas

Latin Via Ovid John F. Collins, A Primer of Ecclesiastical Latin De Ordine

[Ecclesiastical Latin pronunciation] [Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid]


EDUC 203: Foundations of Education

The Great Tradition Elementary Education A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning

The Great Tradition: A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning


PHIL 333: Philosophy and Literature

The Routledge Companion to Semiotics Purely Objective Reality Modeling Systems Theory

[Aristotle, Poetics] [St. Augustine of Hippo, On Christian Doctrine] [Jacques Maritain, Art and Scholasticism]


PHIL 304: Metaphysics of St. Thomas Aquinas

Summa Theologiae Feser Aquinas Last Superstition

Jude P. Dougherty, "Wretched Aristotle," Homiletic and Pastoral Review (August-September 2003): 20-27.


PHIL 305: Philosophy of the Human Person

Phenomenology of the Human Person Philosophy of the Human Person Other Selves

St. Thomas Aquinas, Treatise on Human Nature


PHIL 303: Medieval Philosophy (The Latin Age)

Peter Lombard, Sentences

Divine Light Understanding Our Being

"What happened to philosophy between Aquinas and Descartes?"


PHIL 420: Authors — Jacques Maritain [Collected Works]

Degrees Maritain Person and Common Good

Jacques Maritain, The Person and the Common Good (Notre Dame, Ind.: U. of Notre Dame P., 1947).


PHIL 111: History of Western Philosophy (Ancient and Medieval Period)

Devettere Scholasticism Confessions

"Liberalism’s notion that morality is merely rights and obligations empties life of ethical meaning. We need a return to pre-modern virtue ethics."


PHIL 105: Introduction to Philosophy

Course description:
An introduction to questions addressed by philosophers: (1) the relationship between perception and knowledge (appearance and reality), (2) the existence and nature of God, (3) human freedom and determinism, (4) the meaning of human existence, (5) the nature of moral judgments, (6) the mind/body problem, (7) artificial intelligence, (8) feminist philosophy, (9) the problem of suffering, and (10) whether humans are capable of selfless motivation.

Wicked Maritain Aquinas


PHIL 109: Critical Thinking (Informal Logic)

Course description:
An introduction to critical thinking/writing and informal logic in practical settings. The value of rational thinking in the face of everyday challenges is explored – e.g., problem solving, making informed decisions, evaluating whether a statement is true, etc. Students will dissect examples of good and bad reasoning, analyze informal fallacies, detect hidden assumptions and irrelevant premises in arguments, determine where an argument’s burden of proof lies, and practice transferring critical thinking skills to their writing skills.
Informal logic is “material logic” (a.k.a. “major logic”, “critical logic”, or simply “criticism”), i.e., it is concerned with the truth of the content (the “matter”) of argumentation.

Required Textbook: Socratic Logic (3rd Edition)

Socratic Logic Philosophy 101 Poinsot


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