Philosophy - McKendree University

Philosophy from McKendree University is a Campus Bachelor Philosophy degree that prepares you for a Liberal Arts career. Philosophy, the oldest and most basic of the liberal arts disciplines, continues to provide the broad intellectual foundation essential to assuming leadership roles within a quickly changing society. Additionally, a major or minor in philosophy serves to balance the increasingly narrow specialization typical of many of today???s majors in professional areas. The abilities to analyze and synthesize ideas are developed; one???s critical thinking skills are sharpened; and moral and aesthetic sensitivities are given greater depth. A major in philosophy serves as a most appropriate pathway to law school, divinity school and various graduate programs in management and administration, as well as the graduate study of philosophy itself. A major or minor in philosophy, in tandem with a major in a narrower professional field, will serve the student well as career advancement comes to require flexibility of mind, and insight into the essentials of a situation, as well as technical skills. Among specific objectives, the study of philosophy is intended to develop in the student familiarity with a basic philosophical vocabulary through which discussion of central questions has occurred, as well as an ability to recognize relationships between past philosophies and basic presuppositions of Western culture today, and an ability to analyze and discuss primary source material. Philosophy also seeks to develop the sensitivity to recognize philosophical issues and to critically assess the response of various individuals or schools to those issues, while developing empathic skills in entering the ???mind set??? of given thinkers after examining historical and intellectual settings. Majors will emerge with the tools and experience in diagnosing their own intellectual presuppositions and those of their culture, thus moving them to develop and express their own careful thinking about central philosophical questions. View more details on McKendree University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Philosophy courses.