Surveys and studies of demographics show that students of philosophy are in every field and career path (Ursery). ... ("Why Study Philosophy"). ... On the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT), philosophy and economics were tied for the highest average score in 2010 ("Why Study Philosophy"). ... Being able to continue education into higher degrees is another large benefit from studying philosophy. To conclude, there are many perspectives that argue that philosophy is useless to study. ...

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Natural philosophy, being the precursor to modern day science, was greatly developed in ancient Greece. ... The father of this study was a man named Thales of Miletus (Violatti). ... Another celebrated Greek in the field of natural philosophy was Pythagoras. ... Aristotle would study many things such as animals. ... Compared to other societies in this ancient time, the Greeks were the frontrunners in natural philosophy....

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One field of natural science, Physiology, dates back to 420 BC and is the study of function in living systems. ... The word itself directly translates to the "study of the soul" and caters directly towards humans. ... The study of human thought itself, of life, of meaning, of logic, and of existence. This of course is the study of Philosophy, made popular by Ancient Greek scholars and Enlightenment Era thinkers alike. ... It is then of the utmost importance that we use these two guiding philosophies to discover our one true place, and not to impatiently jam ourselves into the first free space...

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Scholars in many countries found it increasingly difficult to bridge the gulf between natural and supernatural, to reconcile natural law and divine providence, and to balance moral philosophy and spiritual virtue. ... Around this time Spinoza was expanding a philosophy deeply marked by natural science, which was incompatible with a literal belief in the Bible. ... He wrote on philosophy, science, music, and art, and wrote novels, essays, and dramatic pieces Rousseau's most important work is The Social Contract that describes the relationship of man with society. ... There are Romanticis...

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" (Pg. 33) A philosophy of history embedded in human development and the human mind began to manifest in this century through the works of Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot and Condorcet. ... During the scientific revolution, where the separation from religion and the study of humanity began and new developments in physics and astronomy emerged, the author notes how Darwin's revolution opened scientific exploration further into the areas of geology and biology. ... Darwin, starting as a geologist, studying the transformations in the Earth, connected these changes in the natural physical wor...

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THE MARCH OF RELIGION TO THIRD MILLENNIUM: - Swami Ranganathanada wrote, "A scientific study of religion reveals two dimensions to every religion, especially to every one of the highly developed world religions, namely, religion as a socio-political expression, and religion as a path to the experience of God, or any value equivalent to." ... In fact every branch of every science is an integral part of Vedic study. ... SIMILARITIES BETWEEN RELIGION AND SCIENCE:- On reflecting upon and studying the interrelationship of Science and Religion one finds that religion is a system of knowl...

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Philosophically, the notion of pseudoscience encompasses all that is not science philosophy, religion and other bodies of human belief (Ruse Summer1982, p.72). ... He made numerous attempts to study fossils of extinct apes comparing it to the human skeletal anatomy. ...

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