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Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave

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⇑Philosophy at IPCA

Language: PortugueseStudies in Portuguese
Subject area: humanities
Qualification: politécnico
University website: www.ipca.pt

⇑Test: check whether Philosophy is the right major for you!

Filozofia test

Find out if Philosophy is a good fit for you!

1. Do you enjoy thinking about big, abstract questions like meaning, knowledge, justice, or reality?

2. Are you comfortable analyzing arguments, spotting hidden assumptions, and evaluating reasoning?

3. Do you enjoy reading dense or challenging texts and unpacking their ideas through discussion or writing?

4. Are you interested in ethical questions about what is right and how people ought to live?

5. Do you enjoy debating ideas, considering multiple perspectives, and revising your views if persuasion is strong?

6. Are you curious about the history of ideas and how philosophical traditions shaped societies?

7. Do you enjoy writing clear, well-structured essays that explain complex ideas?

8. Are you comfortable with uncertainty and questions that may not have clear or definitive answers?

9. Do you see yourself applying philosophical thinking in fields like law, education, ethics, public policy, or research?

10. Are you motivated to continually refine your own thinking, challenge your assumptions, and learn from others?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Philosophy
Philosophy (from Greek φιλοσοφία, philosophia, literally "love of wisdom") is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. The term was probably coined by Pythagoras (c. 570–495 BCE). Philosophical methods include questioning, critical discussion, rational argument, and systematic presentation. Classic philosophical questions include: Is it possible to know anything and to prove it? What is most real? Philosophers also pose more practical and concrete questions such as: Is there a best way to live? Is it better to be just or unjust (if one can get away with it)? Do humans have free will?
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Philosophy
That stone,
Philosophers in vain so long have sought.
John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book III, line 600. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 596-97.
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Where there have been powerful governments, societies, religions, public opinions, in short wherever there has been tyranny, there the solitary philosopher has been hated; for philosophy offers an asylum to a man into which no tyranny can force it way, the inward cave, the labyrinth of the heart.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Untimely Meditations, trans. Hollingdale, “Schopenhauer as educator,” § 3.3, p. 139
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions. Intellect, will, taste, and passion co-operate just as they do in practical affairs; and lucky it is if the passion be not something as petty as a love of personal conquest over the philosopher across the way.
William James, The Sentiment of Rationality (1882).
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