Associate degrees in Philosophy: A program that focuses on ideas and their logical structure, including arguments and investigations about abstract and real phenomena. Includes instruction in logic, ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, metaphysics, symbolism, and history of philosophy, and applications to the theoretical foundations and methods of other disciplines.
A philosophy major may seek employment as a post-secondary teacher, a minister, or might plan to obtain a graduate degree in a profession such as law, for which a background in philosophy is often recommended. Philosophy, literally the "love of knowledge," is the parent of all other academic disciplines. One of philosophy's aims is to provide a way to see all knowledge as a whole in order to arrive at insights none of the other disciplines can achieve....
General Information about the Study of Philosophy What is philosophy? What do philosophers do? Surprisingly, even philosophers ask these questions. Not because they do not know what they are doing, but because asking questions is what philosophers do. …Why is there something rather than nothing?‘, …What is it to be good?‘, …What is the nature of reality?‘ are some other philosophical questions.
You might notice that other disciplines ask similar...
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