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Integrating Knowledge
IKON courses provide college-level courses, for credit, to help students integrate the knowledge they learn in their respective professional areas with their Christian faith. Beginning with the students’ faith, the courses aim to integrate the varieties of knowledge found at a university. Through the grace of the Church, students will begin to see expansive horizons far and beyond a typical course.
"I wish [for students] to be at once oracles of philosophy and shrines of devotion…It will not satisfy me, if religion is here, and science there, and young people converse with science all day, and lodge with religion in the evening... I want the same roof to contain both the intellectual and moral discipline."
–St. John Henry Cardinal Newman
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Course Description
IKON 110: Wonder - Knowing - Being
Along with critical thinking, students appreciate wonder and the ability to practice “wonderful thinking”. Viewing the world as a whole in relation to particular circumstances, times, etc., students will acquire a knowledge of first principles.
This course is being taught as AUDIT only.
When: Spring 2020 Thursdays, 4:30-6pm
Where: Tulane Catholic (1037 Audubon Street), Classroom, 3rd floor
How Much: FREE! (Donations requested)
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Proposed Course Schedule
Jan 16 The Soul: Between Metaphysics and Psychology
Jan 23 Wonder(ful) vs. Critical Thinking
Jan 30 Brains don't Think
Feb 6 Guest Lecture - Knowing that You are in Love
Feb 13 Scientific Challenges to Afterlife
Feb 20 Near Death Experiences: Wondering What Comes Next?
Feb 27 C.S. Lewis' Vision of Heaven and Hell
Mar 5 Guest Lecture - The Sociological Imagination
Mar 12 Is Faith Rational?
Mar 19 The Spiritual Life as the Intellectual Life
Mar 26 Escaping Plato's Cave
Apr 2 Guest Lecture - Terror, Wonder, Leisure
Apr 16 The Human Predicament - Why We Have Anxiety
Apr 23 Moral Dimension of the Mind - Against Wrong Thinking
Apr 30 Real Presences -
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