STUDENT RESOURCES

Mount St. Mary’s students can find formal policies and general course information via the University Catalogue, and access their own courses through Canvas.

My resources for students

How to Read a Philosophical Text (advice about “active reading,” and not only for philosophical texts!)

How to Read Plato (four basic principles of interpretation for Platonic dialogues)

The “Tree of Porphyry” (and some Aristotelian logical terminology)

How to read Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae (understanding and getting the most out the Summa’s fractal dialectical structure)

“Scholarly Sources” (what they are and where to find them — an introduction to academic research)

Other resources on the web

The Perseus Project (access to Greek and Roman texts, with language tools and translations)

Corpus Thomisticum (Thomism pioneered “digital humanities” in the 1940’s! This resource includes texts, search tools, and other aids for studying Aquinas’s works.)

St. Isidore (Aquinas’s works in Latin and English editions, where available)

Thomistica.net (an evolving resources for the study of St. Thomas, and initiative of the Sacra Doctrina Project)

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (excellent articles, and bibliographies that can lead you to further study)

The Catholic Encyclopedia (dated — 1907-1912! — but still a valuable resource on many historical topics)