{"id":898,"date":"2007-07-10T08:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T08:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/rpe\/2007\/07\/10\/why-study-philosophy-2"},"modified":"2007-07-10T08:52:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T08:52:00","slug":"why-study-philosophy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/2007\/07\/10\/why-study-philosophy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Study Philosophy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I note that at <a href=\"http:\/\/users.ox.ac.uk\/~worc0337\/why_phil.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/users.ox.ac.uk\/~worc0337\/why_phil.html<\/a> there is a set of for\/against arguments dealing with this topic \u2013 and links to the many University Departments who offer a rationale for such studies.<\/p>\n<p>At Elon University, Nim Batchelor has a page entitled: <a href=\"http:\/\/org.elon.edu\/philosophy\/parents2.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How can I tell my parents that I want to be a philosophy major?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But \u2013 what do those who are actively studying on a philosophy course \u2013 or active in philosophy as teachers or in some other sense &#8211; think?<\/p>\n<p>Does the study of philosophy make you:<br \/>Happier?<br \/>More content \u2013 or more despairing and miserable?<br \/>A better (more virtuous) person?<br \/>Awkward and disputatious?<br \/>Smug and self-righteous?<br \/>Better-looking?<\/p>\n<p>Or perhaps the study of it has benefits that aren\u2019t as clear and as much to do with what impact it has on the individual student\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Comments welcome\u2026<br \/>Dave<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I note that at http:\/\/users.ox.ac.uk\/~worc0337\/why_phil.html there is a set of for\/against arguments dealing with this topic \u2013 and links to the many University Departments who offer a rationale for such [&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":[43,118,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","category-student","category-study"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","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=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}