Comments on: Please explain the difference between these 3 Philosophy classes?

By: Ellis Dos Santos

Ellis Dos Santos — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:11:54 +0000

In philosophy you’re going to do a lot of reading, period. And it tends to get very deep.

Take the intro class first. I wouldn’t recommend taking either of the others before taking the intro class because you need the general information in the intro class to better understand the others. After that, if you choose to take another philosophy class, I’d choose ethics over logic. Logic is almost like an advanced math class with words instead of numbers.

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By: Zion Waterworth

Zion Waterworth — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:41:26 +0000

Intro to Philosophy would be the general overview class. If you haven’t taken any philosophy before, this is what you probably should take.

Logic would be a more complicated class. Almost mathmatical. Unless you have a strong interest in math or computer programming, I wouldn’t take this as your first philosophy class.

Ethics would be around …. ethics. I took a Philosophy class on ethics after I took intro and we focused on the more community/law side of ethics. Our major text was Rawl’s Theory of Justice if you want to google it. Other professors teach this using different materials. I found this more interesting than the Intro Class, but it was also more difficult and could be hard when you don’t have the overview you would get in intro.

My advice would be to take the intro class.

By: Mia Daley

Mia Daley — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:24:13 +0000

Introduction to logic is gold. Ethics is second, and intro to philosophy is not particularly necessary unless you plan on majoring in philosophy. Even if that were the case, it is not that useful because there are books out there that can provide as good of an introduction, if not better.

I’ve never taken ethics or intro, only logic. You can learn ethics through many other mediums aside from a college course, the same goes for the intro course. Logic will be one of the most useful skills in life. Because while the definition of the ethical and the philosophical will differ, logic is often times the most clear and concise.

By: Lucille Walmsley

Lucille Walmsley — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:19:51 +0000

well, going off of the definitions of those words, i’d say ethics is how things should work to make something move more efficiently (IE some sort of business protocol, nazi germany, etc).
Philosophy is probably a more general class, touching on logic and ethics, but also expanding to many other ideas.
Logic is..well..logic? i have no idea what would be in this class.

Ethics and philo are totally different imo, and i’d take philo