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What Is Philosophy?

Hook, Sidney | March 30, 1946 issue

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The report of the Commission on the Function of Philosophy in Liberal Education set up by the Board of Officers of the American Philosophical Association is now before the public. It presents a well-written and cogent defense of the place of philosophy in the curriculum of the liberal-arts college. The actual subject matter of philosophy is implicit in the demand, as documented in the commission's report, which reflective laymen have made of philosophers. They have asked the philosophers to provide a rational faith or way of life by which men may intelligently live. In so doing, they have implied that philosophy is concerned primarily with values as reliable guides to life.

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