Philosophy and Society

Philosophy begins from looking at the world around us. Philosophy tries to understand why the world is the way it is, and what would be required to change it. There are many different points of view in philosophy. Our task will be to understand as many different points of view as possible, and to try to evaluate them. In evaluating them, we will be using the most important tool philosophers possess: arguments! Everything we do in philosophy will involve arguments in one way or another.

Philosophy and Critical Thinking

A big part of learning about philosophy is learning the practice of what's called 'critical thinking'. This is not so much about WHAT we know, but HOW we think.
When we learn how to do philosophy, we learn to develop our critical faculties. No longer are we mere receptacles into which knowledge and information is poured. We become evaluators, critics, a and thinkers.

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