Why Study Philosophy? - Cabrillo College

Why Study Philosophy?

The Top Ten Reasons I Could Think Of!

#10. There was room in this class

Course

Section #

PHILO 10 77402

PHILO 10 77403

PHILO 10 77404

PHILO 10H 77663

PHILO 12 77405

PHILO 14 77406

PHILO 4

77408

PHILO 4

77409

PHILO 4

77410

PHILO 49 77411

PHILO 49 77412

PHILO 49 77413

PHILO 49 77414

PHILO 6

77664

PHILO 9

77416

Enrolled 60 68 67 32 66 67 65 68 69 28 30 27 26 46 67

Waitlist 13 14 13 0 13 11 15 15 15 11 13 9 8 12 15

#9. Philosophy offers 3 units of transferable credit

==== Philosophy ====

PHILO 4 Introduction to Philosophy 3 IGETC: 3B CSU GE: C2 PHILO 6 History of Philosophy 3 IGETC: 3B CSU GE: C2 PHILO 7 History of Philosophy: Modern 3 IGETC: 3B CSU GE: C2 PHILO 8 Philosophy of Religion 3 IGETC: 3B CSU GE: C2 PHILO 9 Philosophy of Mind 3 IGETC: 3B CSU GE: C2 PHILO 10 Ethics 3 IGETC: 3B CSU GE: C2 PHILO 10H Honors Ethics 3 IGETC: 3B CSU GE: C2 PHILO 12 Introduction to Logic 3 CSU GE: A3 PHILO 14 Non-Western Philosophical Traditions 3 IGETC: 3B CSU GE: C2 PHILO 15 Patterns in Comparative Religions 3 IGETC: 3B CSU GE: C2 PHILO 16 Contemporary Moral Issues 3 IGETC: 3B CSU GE: C2 PHILO 39AZ Philosophical Studies 1-3 PHILO 49 Introduction to Critical Thinking 3 IGETC: 1B CSU GE: A3

#8. Lots of people you've heard of have degrees in Philosophy

Government, Politics, Law and Religion:

Thomas Jefferson (U.S. President), Jane Addams (first woman to receive Nobel Peace Prize),

David Souter (Supreme Court Justice), William Bennett (Secretary of Education and best-selling author),Patrick Buchanan (presidential candidate and political columnist),

Fred Thompson (former Senator and presidential candidate)

Jerry Brown (former governor of California and presidential candidate),

Raisa Gorbachev (former first lady of the Soviet Union),

Pope John Paul II, Martin Luther King, Jr., Madelyn Murray O'Hair (famous atheist).

Business:

J. Paul Getty, Carl Icahn (CEO, TWA Airlines), Gerald Levin (CEO, Time Warner, Inc.),

George Soros (financier),

Lachlan Murdoch (son of Rupert Murdoch, media magnate),

Carly Fiorina (CEO Hewlett-Packard)

Peter Thiel, co-founder PayPal

Contemporary Writers, Performers and Broadcasters:

T. S. Eliot, Christopher Hitchens, James Michener, Iris Murdoch, Alexander Solzhenitsin,

Umberto Eco, M. Scott Peck, Ken Follett, Susan Sontag, Sam Harris, David Foster Wallace,

Ayn Rand, Elie Wiesel.

Harrison Ford, Susan Sarandon, Woody Allen, Richard Gere, Steve Martin, John Cleese (of the Monty Python Troup)

George Carlin, Jay Leno, Dennis Miller, Kim Thayill (Soundgarden), Stone Phillips,

John Chancellor, Alex Trebek, Gene Siskel, Willard Scott, Jimmy Kimmel, Dessa (a.k.a. Margret Wander, Hip Hop Artist)

Ricky Gervais (creator of The Office), Wes Anderson, Ethan Coen (of the Coen Brothers ? Filmmakers).

Sports:

(Bruce Lee, Phil Jackson, Michael McKaskey (Owner, Chicago Bears), Aaron Talylor (OT, Notre Dame and the Green Bay Packers

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#7. Philosophers love wisdom

The word "philosophy" comes from the Greek (philosophia), which literally means "love of wisdom".

[Philosophia, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', at Perseus". Perseus.tufts.edu. .]

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