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A liberal arts education is meant to help you discover and examine what is most important. This comes from asking such questions as: Can everything be bought for a price, or are there intrinsically valuable activities that give life meaning? Is God a person who cares for you, or a figment of someone’s imagination? Is science on the verge of showing how “free will” has always been a fiction? Philosophy asks these questions, and many others, that invite you to discover for yourself what is most important, and why. It does this through:
- A rigorous curriculum that puts you in conversation with such thinkers as Plato and Aristotle, Augustine and Aquinas, Kant and Nietzsche. Confronting great thought you learn how to analyze and interpret in order to dig up the assumptions and follow out the implications of the ideas that have shaped both you and the world in which you live.
- An accomplished faculty dedicated to teaching and eager to engage you in thinking through problems arising at the very heart of religion, politics, morality, aesthetics, metaphysics, and epistemology from both historical and contemporary perspectives.
- All the advantages of choosing a core program at a liberal arts college ranked among the best in the nation: an excellent library, open 24/7; a dynamic, close-knit community with a passion for the life of the mind; a beautiful campus in a “place-apart” location that encourages intellectual reflection and collaboration.
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