Elective Courses

BO-01 Introduction to Western Philosophy (3)

Little Flower Major Seminary, Aluva is the Major Formation Centre of the Little Flower Congregation (CST Fathers). It is the expression of the farsighted vision and the fruit of the challenging endeavour of love and action as taught and witnessed by Very Rev. Father Basilius (Thomas) Panat, the venerable Founder of our Congregation. It has a history spanning over fve decades. It was established in 1960 as Little Flower Study House and ofcially inaugurated on 12th March, 1961. It was constituted into a Major Seminary to teach Philosophy and Religion on 3rd July 1962. The Seminary is a home for all the Major Seminarians of the Congregation.

Fr. Francis Chittinappilly CST

Bibliography
1. Congregation for Catholic Education. Decree on the Reform of Ecclesiastical Studies of Philosophy. 2011.
2. Edwards, Paul. Ed. The Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Vols 1-8. New York: The Macmillan Publishing Co. Inc. & The Free Press, 1967.
3. Honderich, Ted. The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
4. Jaspers, Karl. Way to Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1967.
5. Maritain, Jacques. An Introduction to Philosophy. London: Sheed and Ward, 1981.
6. Puthenpurackal, Johnson. Ed. ACPI Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Vols. I & II. Bangalore: Asian Trading Corporations, 2010.
7. Sinha, Nath Jadu. Introduction to Philosophy. Allahabad: Central Publishing House, 2009.
8. Weber, Alfred. History of Philosophy, trans. Frank Thilly. Torondo: Diamond Books, 2017.

BO-02 History of Philosophy I Ancient Greek Philosophy (3)

The History of Greek Philosophy starts with Thales, the initiator of philosophy, and ends in Epicurean and stoic thoughts. This study is divided into four sections, such as Pre-sophistic, Sophistic, and Socratic, Platonic and Aristotelian, and finally Epicurean and Stoic periods. These four periods are well unveiled with the right philosophical insights through discussions and arguments.

Dr. Libin Kozhikkottu CST

Bibliography
1. Blackburn, Simon. The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, 3rd Revised Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
2. Composta, Dario. History of Ancient Philosophy. Bangalore: TPI, 1990.
3. Copleston, Fredrick. A History of Philosophy. Vol, I. London: Burns and Oates, 1971.
4. Guthrie, W. K. C. A History of Greek Philosophy, vols. I-IV. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974.
5. Masih, Y. A Critical History of Western Philosophy: Greek, Medieval and Modern. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidas, 2017 (7th Edition).
6. Routledge History of Philosophy, Vols. I-II. London: Routledge, 1994