This year-long course is divided into two major sections. The first semester serves as an introduction to the nature of classical Christian education, to a cosmological view of learning, and to the fundamental themes and questions of the liberal arts. The second semester begins to explore the nature of literature (poetics proper), the nature of the human city, and to consider diverse approaches to understanding God and man in the Ancient period, with special attention to the role of faith, revelation, and reason.

The second year of Moral Philosophy focuses on Antiquity—primarily Greek and Roman sources. Students examine history, literature, ethics and philosophy in the ancient world, spanning from the creation to St. Augustine and Boethius in the 5th century. Particular emphasis is placed on themes of homecoming, the nature of the polis, the science of ethics, and the foundations of classical physics and metaphysics, Major authors include Homer, Augustine, Plato, and Aristotle.

The third year of Moral Philosophy covers the medieval world up through early modernity, focusing on a rich period in which Christian culture, theology, and literature uniquely flourished. Students trace the transition from the pagan world to the establishment and growth of Christendom in the medieval world, touching also upon the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the emergence of Enlightenment thought. They explore medieval literature, social and political texts from the Middle Ages to the early modern period, as well as works of philosophy, theology, and ethics.

The fourth year of Moral Philosophy explores the modern world through recent philosophic and cultural movements, examining the development of modern thought and social currents through literature and philosophy. Students synthesize much of their learning from previous years in order to analyze, critique, and locate themselves in the problems and complexities of the contemporary world via Scripture, as well as the virtues of faith, hope, and love. Major frameworks including dualism, skepticism, existentialism, postmodernism, and forms of scientism are contextualized by revealed truth, Divine Goodness and providence, and the realities of the human person. The particular virtues of faith, hope, and love are the framework through which students will be directed to read the modern and contemporary landscape.