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The Cursus Philosophiae is a two-volume textbook of scholastic philosophy for seminaries by Charles Boyer, a French Jesuit who was professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. The edition, of 1952, opens with its title page, ecclesiastical approvals and a letter from the Congregation of Seminaries praising the work, followed by the author’s preface and a general introduction. The course covers logic, both minor (formal) and major, metaphysics, cosmology and psychology, following the teaching of Thomas Aquinas. Each topic is set out in theses with proofs and objections, as in the sample, which argues that the concupiscible and irascible appetites are distinct powers in animals.
Boyer’s course was one of the standard Latin manuals of neo-Thomist philosophy used in Catholic seminaries before the Second Vatican Council, and it went through many printings. It documents the form of philosophical education in the Catholic Church in the first half of the twentieth century, when Latin remained the language of instruction and Thomism was the official philosophy of the schools.
About this edition. The Latin text comes from Corpus Corporum, the Latin text repository of the University of Zurich (edition: 2 vols.; scans of these rare books upon request. Footnotes and page numbers only occasionally given. Automated OCR: there will be more mistakes than…), reused with attribution for non-commercial purposes (CC BY-NC-SA). Every word has been analyzed with LatinCy, a neural language model for Latin — click or tap any word for its dictionary form, part of speech, and complete morphology, together with the full entry from Lewis & Short’s A Latin Dictionary.