Please purchase ONE registration for ALL of the Schola Alta (7th-12th grade) Philosophy students in your family.

Please Note: This NON-REFUNDABLE registration does not guarantee enrollment in a licensed Aquinas Learning Center. Please contact your director to apply and pay center tuition for a seat in her classroom.

This registration provides one family with unlimited access to our Cycle 1 Philosophy Course, Truth and Language, for one school year, in addition to continuing education for primary educators, a private forum for member families, and exclusive discounts for the purchase of partner materials.

The Aquinas Learning course Philosophy: Truth and Language considers the philosophical foundations of language and how truthful language serves reason, rhetoric, and the cultivation of wisdom. The course is part of the Aquinas Learning Logic curriculum, which began with the Schola Alta I series (Material Logic, Formal Logic, Rhetoric) and continues with the Schola Alta II Series (Philosophy: Truth and Language, Philosophy: The Great Arguments, and Advanced Rhetoric). This course considers the building blocks of human reasoning (ideas) and how they conform to reality (truth) and are expressed in language (words and grammar). Students are introduced to the philosophy of Aristotle, especially his Physics and Metaphysics, concerning the nature of things (categories of being, four causes, and classification). Students consider human thought, especially the progression from sense data to idea and word, and from idea to judgment and proposition. They also consider ways of knowing, including sense perception, reason, and divine revelation. Students learn the language of reason—terms and attributes, composition and division, definition, and proposition—as well as the ambiguity of language. The course cultivates skills in reason, analysis, and dialogue.

Please note: This registration does not include the cost of materials or the cost of tuition paid to an independently owned and operated center using the AL curriculum.

Shortly after completing registration, member families will receive a getting started guide with instructions for ordering materials with members-only discount codes and access to the Philosophy: Truth and Language course site. Full course materials will be uploaded and launched a couple of months before the start of the school year.