{"id":10,"date":"2017-11-17T15:30:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T15:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wcsu.wpengine.com\/philosophy\/philosophy-and-humanistic-studies-department\/"},"modified":"2024-03-06T13:13:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T13:13:15","slug":"philosophy-and-humanistic-studies-department","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-677\" style=\"color: #333333;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2021\/01\/books.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Welcome to\u00a0 Philosophy<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u201c<i>The unexamined life is not worth living\u201d\u00a0 <\/i>Socrates<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Philosophy, sometimes known as the mother of all disciplines is an essential area of study for a liberal arts program. Studying philosophy will help you think analytically, understand and clarify ideas, as well as challenge your own beliefs and assumptions. Socrates was put to death for <i>corrupting the youth; <\/i>really, he was only doing what any good philosophy teacher would do: asking students questions as a way to challenge their own ideas, and beliefs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">We offer courses in all areas of philosophy such as: Ancient Greek philosophy, Medieval philosophy, 19<sup>th<\/sup> and 20<sup>th<\/sup> century philosophy, ethical theory, existentialism, logic, Buddhist philosophy, and many more. Many of our courses apply philosophy to real world problems such as: ethical issues in health care, ethics in computing; environmental philosophy, engaged philosophy:peace and justice issues, and others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">On our website, you will find information about our course offerings, the contract major in philosophy and our minors. Please do <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/philosophy\/contact-us\/\">contact us<\/a> for further information. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Welcome to\u00a0 Philosophy \u201cThe unexamined life is not worth living\u201d\u00a0 Socrates Philosophy, sometimes known as the mother of all disciplines is an essential area of study for a liberal arts program. Studying philosophy will help you think analytically, understand &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"three-column.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}