PH 401 Metaphysics
Metaphysics is the most general of all sciences. It investigates the different modes of existing and considers a hierarchy of reality. This course includes the study of physical beings, spiritual beings and the infinite Being. The principles of essence and existence, matter and form, potentiality and actuality, substance and accident, and efficient and final causality are the topics of this course. God is studied as the first efficient and ultimate final cause of all being. The transcendental (beauty, truth, unity, goodness, etc.) are studied as the properties of being insofar as they are being. The course also considers the problem of evil.
Prerequisite
Junior standing