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The labor market demands increasingly qualified professionals. Individuals with the knowledge and training necessary to face the challenges posed daily by their work and the social interactions it entails. 

Pursuing this specialization represents an essential step in that process. Moreover, it marks a significant milestone in personal development, opening new paths for growth and advancement.

This Postgraduate diploma in Introduction to Philosophy has been designed to enable students to acquire the necessary knowledge in this discipline in an intensive and efficient manner. It offers an opportunity to enhance your specialization through the most effective online learning method available in higher education.

TECH provides you with the opportunity to incorporate key areas of knowledge—Introduction to Philosophy, Philosophical Synthesis, Philosophy and Experimental Science, Philosophy and the Media, and Philosophy and Politics—into your academic training. Furthermore, through this program you will develop a way of thinking that leads you toward critical awareness, grounded in a humanistic and social perspective. 

If you wish to surpass yourself, achieve positive professional growth, engage with leading thinkers, and become part of a new generation of philosophers and humanists capable of applying their knowledge anywhere in the world, this is your path.

Change your future—make your specialization the credential your profession deserves”

This Postgraduate diploma in Introduction to Philosophy contains the most complete and up-to-date program on the market. The most important features include:

• Practical cases that apply the theoretical content through real life situations 
• The graphic, schematic, and practical contents with which they are created provide scientific and practical information on the disciplines that are essential for professional practice 
• Practical exercises where the self-assessment process can be carried out to improve learning
• Algorithm-based interactive learning system for decision-making in the situations which are presented to the student
• Special emphasis on practical learning
• All this will be complemented by theoretical lessons, questions to the expert, debate forums on controversial topics, and individual reflection assignments 
• And in addition, you will have access to all program content from any desktop or portable device with an internet connection

TECH is the University of the Technological Era for the Technological Era: placing at the service of humankind the necessary tools to achieve a greater social impact—one that, through educational technology, transforms the individual, the family, and society as a whole”

At TECH, we offer you the most innovative, creative, and distinctive proposal within a dynamic institution recognized internationally for its excellence and talent. Our pedagogical model has been recognized as a “Microsoft Europe Success Story” for its incorporation of the innovative interactive multivideo system in our programs. Furthermore, our team was awarded the “Entrepreneurship Award” at the World Congress Expo-eLearning 2010, the most important e-learning event in the Spanish-speaking world.

TECH also makes it easy for students to balance their education with their professional and personal activities. You will be able to combine your studies with full-time employment, adapting the training process to your personal and professional responsibilities, allowing you to successfully complete the program without having to sacrifice any other commitments.

Within a space designed for the exchange of ideas, experiences, and reflections, you will have the opportunity to share your learning experience through forums and other 100% online collaborative tools. 

We support you at all times thanks to an involved and committed teaching staff. The teaching team transmits their expertise of their professional performance, working from a real, lively and dynamic context. But above all, TECH explores students’ critical side, their ability to question things, their problem-solving skills, as well as their interpersonal skills.

To be a philosopher in today’s society is to be part of the humanist movement driving social change. Prepare yourself for this role with a comprehensive, high-quality specialization and leave your mark on the world”

TECH Global University is the world’s largest 100% online university”

A plan designed for you, preparing you to achieve excellence in the field of philosophy. The teaching program responds to their needs through innovative content based on the latest trends in philosophy. With the most qualified faculty, employing the best educational methodologies, you will acquire the necessary competencies to analyze and resolve critical situations using philosophical tools, in a creative and efficient manner.

In 2015, TECH Global University achieved the best learning outcomes among all online universities in Latin America. However, our greatest endorsement comes from the thousands of students who have successfully reached their goals by studying with us”

Module 1. Introduction to Philosophy

1.1. Introduction

1.1.1. Nature of Philosophical Activity
1.1.2. Philosophy as Wisdom and Science
1.1.3. Methods of Philosophy
1.1.4. Division of Philosophy
1.1.5. Relationship of Philosophy with Other Sciences

1.2. Main Problems of Philosophy

1.2.1. Knowledge and Being
1.2.2. Man and the World
1.2.3. Human Activity and Beauty
1.2.4. The Absolute
1.2.5. Other Problems

1.3. History of Philosophy

1.3.1. Nature and Object of the History of Philosophy
1.3.2. General Concept of the History of Philosophy
1.3.3. Fundamental Guidelines and Prominent Thinkers in Different Periods of the History of Philosophy

1.4. Philosophy and Theology

1.4.1. Reason and Faith
1.4.2. Christian Understanding of the Cosmos and History
1.4.3. Common Tasks and Relationship Between Philosophy and Theology

Module 2. Philosophical Synthesis

2.1. Metaphysics

2.1.1. The Nature of Metaphysics
2.1.2. The Dynamism of Being
2.1.3. Casual Dynamism
2.1.4. The Statics of Being
2.1.5. The Transcendental Properties of Being
2.1.6. The Classification of Being
2.1.7. The Participation and Analogy of Being

2.2. Philosophy of Nature

2.2.1. The Nature of the Treaty
2.2.2. The Intelligibility of Nature
2.2.3. The Structure of Nature
2.2.4. The Origin and Meaning of Nature

2.3. Philosophical Anthropology

2.3.1. The Nature of Philosophical Anthropology
2.3.2. Human Life
2.3.3. The Phenomenology of Human Behavior
2.3.4. Human Knowledge
2.3.5. Human Desire
2.3.6. Human Affectivity
2.3.7. Human Unity and Dualism
2.3.8. Humans as Personal Beings
2.3.9. Dimensions of the Personal Being
2.3.10. Death and Human Transcendence

2.4. Philosophy of Knowledge

2.4.1. The Nature of Philosophy of Knowledge
2.4.2. Fundamental Perspectives in Epistemology
2.4.3. Knowledge in General
2.4.4. Perceptual Knowledge
2.4.5. Intellectual Knowledge
2.4.6. Functions, Acts and Areas of Intellectual Knowledge
2.4.7. The Truth of Knowledge and Its Discernment

2.5. Ethics

2.5.1. The Nature of Ethics
2.5.2. Human Goodness
2.5.3. The Moral Subject
2.5.4. Moral Law
2.5.5. Moral Conscience
2.5.6. Friendship Communities
2.5.7. Matters in Bioethics
2.5.8. Human Work
2.5.9. Political Society

2.6. Philosophical Theology

2.6.1. The Nature of Philosophical Theology
2.6.2. God as a Problem
2.6.3. The Existence of God
2.6.4. The Essence of God
2.6.5. God and the World
2.6.6. God and Humans

2.7. Synthetic Vision

2.7.1. Thematic and Argumentative Linking of Treaties
2.7.2. Toward a Global Vision and Harmonic Reality

Module 3. Philosophy and Media

3.1. Theory of Knowledge and Communicative Processes

3.1.1. Link between Thought and Language
3.1.2. Theory of Knowledge for Communicative Processes
3.1.3. The Relation of Human Beings with the World
3.1.4. Culture

3.2. History and Reflection on the Media

3.2.1. Difference between Information and Communication
3.2.2. From Gutenberg to the Internet
3.2.3. Positions regarding New Technologies
3.2.4. Information Security and Transparency

3.3. Effects and Consequences of Media Use

3.3.1. Typology of Media Effects
3.3.2. Media Content Analysis
3.3.3. Theories of Media Effects

3.4. Positions in Communication Theories

3.4.1. Communication Currents and Traditions in North America
3.4.2. Communication Currents and Traditions in Europe
3.4.3. Communication Currents and Traditions in Latin America

Module 4. Philosophy and Experimental Science

4.1. Science and Its Characterization
4.2. From a Current Definition of Science
4.3. The Different Levels in Science
4.4. Features of Experimental Sciences
4.5. The Scientific Method and Its Methods
4.6. Possible Methods and Their Scope
4.7. Building the Scientific Object: Concepts, Models, Statements and Theories
4.8. Philosophy in Science

4.8.1. Not a Reflexion on Science, but of Its Contents
4.8.2. Philosophy and Physics

4.8.2.1. Matter: Aristotle vs. Contemporary Science
4.8.2.2. Movement Aristotle vs. Contemporary Science
4.8.2.3. New Astronomy, New Metaphysics and the Opposition
4.8.2.4. God and the World

4.8.3. Philosophy and Biology

4.8.3.1. What Is Life?
4.8.3.2. The Controversy over Spontaneous Generation: from Aristotle to Pasteur

4.8.4. Philosophy and Chemistry

4.8.4.1. Lavoisier and the Chemical Element
4.8.4.2. The Metaphysics of Chemical Entities

Module 5. Political Philosophy

5.1. What Is Political Philosophy?

5.1.1. The Lesson from the Classics
5.1.2. The Great Topics in Political Philosophy
5.1.3. Stages in Political Philosophy

5.2. Ancient Political Philosophy

5.2.1. The Republic as Plato’s Political Ideal
5.2.2. Aristotle's Politics

5.3. Medieval Political Philosophy

5.3.1. St. Augustine and the City of God
5.3.2. The Theological-Political Disputes of the Middle Ages and the Thomist Synthesis

5.4. Machiavelli and the Birth of Modern Political Thought

5.4.1. Machiavelli's Theory of Forms of Government
5.4.2. Machiavelli's Political Realism

5.5. Modern Political Philosophy

5.5.1. Hobbes and Modern Naturalism
5.5.2. Locke and the Liberal Formation of Modern Naturalism
5.5.3. Rousseau and the Critique of Modern Political Philosophy

The curriculum has been designed by experts in the field to create a comprehensive learning path that will lead you to excellence in your professional capabilities”