Philosophy and Ethics: RS

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The subject is highly valued by universities and employers because it develops our intellect and it produces ‘thinkers’. This subject opens doors. Oxford, Cambridge and all good Universities welcome the subject as a solid academic choice.  Many Philosophy students go and work in business, in law, medicine,  in politics, in education, in accountancy, publishing, PR, the City. Some go on to teach the subject.  All of them are equipped with the tools to question what life is all about in a deep and meaningful way.

Doing Philosophy draws on a huge range of resources. We study some of the greatest thinkers who ever lived;  Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Descartes,  Bentham and Aquinas, alongside cutting edge theories on what it means to know something, what it means to be beautiful, how should we live, what it means to be just. We discuss and tackle many contemporary issues; from an analysis of the rich and the famous to the violence and tragedy of war.

We encourage our students to think outside the box and to consider diverse philosophical and ethical viewpoints.  They are often amazed by the scope of the subject and how much of the world both past, present and future is revealed to us through  the  study of  RS: Philosophy and Ethics.

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