Advancing Studies · Boston College
World Philosophies contributes to a project that is at the core of Jesuit education and its intellectual tradition: global conversations on the meaning of human existence. This course will introduce students to global philosophical accounts of the human person. Exploring diverse philosophical approaches also presses students to engage their own thinking in dialogue with a variety of views. By embarking on the quest to understand what it means to be human, around the world and across history, students take up a heritage that they share with past and future generations and their contemporaries