THE RETREAT – DON BOSCO, (Salesian Post-Novitiate), Yercaud – 636 601, Salem Dt., Tamil Nadu, India.
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ADMISSION Admissions Open for Academic Year 2026-27: 2-Year Diploma in Philosophy (Affiliated to UPS, Rome) • National Seminar on Contemporary Indian Philosophy & Hermeneutics scheduled for next month • URGENT Jnanodaya Journal of Philosophical Studies: Call for Research Papers Vol. 18 Issue 1 •
Jnanodaya Salesian Institute of Philosophy
The Retreat – Don Bosco · Est. 1950 · Yercaud
Salesian Institute of Philosophy — Post-Novitiate Formation | Università Pontificia Salesiana, Rome
"Let Him Illumine Our Mind!" — Ṛg Veda 3.62.10 (Gāyatrī Mantra)
 UPS Rome Affiliated
 Diploma in Philosophy
Since 1950
Jnanodaya Salesian Institute of Philosophy

Syllabus

The detailed course syllabi at Jnanodaya are designed according to international academic benchmarks set by the Holy See and Università Pontificia Salesiana, Rome.
Philosophical Presentation & Defense: Systematic treatizes in Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Ethics.
Philosophical Presentation & Defense: Systematic treatizes in Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Ethics.

Core Philosophical Treatises

Logic & Argumentation: Categorical syllogisms, informal fallacies, propositional calculus.
Epistemology: Theories of truth, skepticism, criteria of certainty, cognition.
Metaphysics: The problem of Being, potency and act, essence and existence, causality.
Philosophical Anthropology: Mind-body integration, freedom, personhood, immortality.
Ethics: Natural law, teleological vs deontological ethics, bioethics, social justice.
Philosophy of God: Rational proofs of God's existence, problem of evil, religious language.