{"id":4271,"date":"2009-01-13T09:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T09:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/rpe\/2009\/01\/13\/why-study-philosophy"},"modified":"2009-01-13T09:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T09:44:00","slug":"why-study-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/2009\/01\/13\/why-study-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Study Philosophy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have discussed this previously &#8211; see <a href=\"http:\/\/r-p-e.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/why-study-philosophy-i-note-that-at.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/r-p-e.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/why-study-religion-philosophy-and.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a> to look at what we came up with &#8211; but I wanted to raise it with a new &#8216;batch&#8217; of students &#8211; our current first year cohort.<\/p>\n<p>I have pasted below the initial questions I have asked the RPE187 class &#8211; and await the answers with interest. [Other readers of the blog are welcome to join in!]<br \/>Cheers,<br \/>dave<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold\"><span style=\"font-size:130%\">So: why study philosophy<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span>1 \u2013 Pragmatic:<\/p>\n<p>What skills can you take from the subject? What else (if anything) will it make you good at?<\/p>\n<p>2 \u2013 Social \/ Political:<\/p>\n<p>Does a philosophical education make you a more aware citizen \u2013 who makes better choices?<\/p>\n<p>Are you more moral as a result of the study of ethics?<\/p>\n<p>Is a society with more philosophers in it, more or less likely to be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fairer?<\/li>\n<li>Smooth functioning?<\/li>\n<li>Well organised?<\/li>\n<li>Argumentative and disputatious?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>3 \u2013 Personal<\/p>\n<p>Has your study so far impacted upon you as a person?<\/p>\n<p>Is this a subject which changes people \u2013 unlike, perhaps, some other subjects (can you think of an example of a subject which doesn\u2019t change people?)?<\/p>\n<p>If it does bring about personal change \u2013 what is the nature of this change?<\/p>\n<p>Other: Are there other reasons?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have discussed this previously &#8211; see HERE and HERE to look at what we came up with &#8211; but I wanted to raise it with a new &#8216;batch&#8217; of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","category-study"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}