Master of Arts (MA) Philosophy

Specialization Biennium, for the attainment of Licentiate in Philosophy (Master of Arts, MA).

It constitutes an in-depth cycle, divided into two directions:

“History of philosophy and religious thought”, characterized, in addition to an in-depth study of the fundamental philosophical disciplines, by courses dedicated to Jewish, Islamic, African thought, the phenomenology of religion, as well as courses on the main and current authors of the history of philosophy.

“Ontology and ethics of scientific thought”, characterized not only by an in-depth study of the fundamental philosophical disciplines, but also by courses in logic and formal ontology, history and philosophy of science, cosmology, neuroscience, computer science, bioethics, social ontology, and social epistemology.

The history of the Pontifical Lateran University began in 1773 when Pope Clement XIV entrusted the Roman College’s Faculties of Theology and Philosophy to the clergy of Rome. In 1824, Pope Leo XII changed the institution’s location, situating it in the Sant’Apollinare Palazzo.

In 1853, Pius IX established the Faculties of Canon Law and Civil Law as well as the Pontifical Institute Utriusque Iuris.

In 1958, the Athenaeum acquired its present organization when Pius XII instituted the Pontifical Pastoral Institute, later dedicated with the name of Pope John Paul II’s first encyclical, Redemptor hominins. The following year, John XXIII granted it status as a Pontifical University.