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Subject: Catholic Studies (Grad) (CSMA)
CRN: 30473
Topics Lecture 1
St Paul: Sitzmann Hall 207
This course will consider virtue as essential for understanding and speaking about the reality of human moral action. The writings of Josef Pieper will serve as a guide to the foundational formulation of the virtues by St. Thomas Aquinas around the theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity, and the cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, courage, and temperance. Romano Guardini’s The Virtues will provide a profound theological consideration of a number of allied virtues in the context of the dynamics of the human person. In all of this we will strive to see how the understanding of the virtues provides insights into the fundamental reality of the human person and provides us with a vocabulary for speaking about and analyzing the moral actions of the human person. In conjunction with these speculative works, we shall read Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed. Reported to be Pope Francis’ favorite novel, The Betrothed will provide an opportunity for considering the virtues in the concrete, and the reality of the virtues will, in turn, help us think more substantively and deeply about this classic of world literature.
3 Credits