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Why Study Philosophy ?It is well known that many companies, businesses, and government agencies look for people who are creative, flexible, adaptable, and have capacities for understanding complex organizations, reports, processes, and systems. It is also well known that the best training for this kind of adaptability is in the liberal arts. Philosophy is perhaps the most central and general discipline of the liberal arts.
It teaches people how to think through the complexities of work and life situations . Students learn not only how to analyze, define, and understand the working concepts of our lives and organizations, but how to read with precision the ideas of others and, equally importantly, to write reports and responses to these ideas and texts in logically organized, clear and well argued ways, as well as orally discuss them.
Philosophy is about life as a whole. In this age where our surroundings, culture and economy are changing so rapidly, everyone needs to understand the history of the main values, ideas, systems, and perspectives on life because they are in the background of everything we do. Philosophy teaches what are the main issues and histories of these theories, concepts, methodologies and values
What makes Philosophy through Atkinson unique?
Atkinson specializes in "Applied Philosophy" - a new kind of philosophy. For example, our professional ethics courses, including the certificate, are among the first such courses created in the world. The program is unique in Canada in the way its courses are integrated with other disciplines and geared to the actual situations one meets in working world. Atkinsons's professional ethics courses are among the first such courses taught in the world.
The program's traditional focus enables you to study the great philosophers and the ideas that defined the ancient Greek, rationalist, empiricist, existentialist, phenomenologist, Marxist and post-modernist modes of thought. At the same time, you can incorporate an applied perspective that will enable you to develop effective techniques of analysis and problem solving.
Choosing from a range of courses that address ethical issues in health, law, business, administration, social work and marketing, you will be able to explore a broad range of practical ethical issues dealing with environmentalism, religion, education, politics, society, law, gender, sexuality, refugees and the mass media.
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