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Philosophy

According to Socrates, philosophy is thinking about how to live, and “the unexamined life is not worth living.”

Angela Davis agrees, adding that any philosophy must be relevant to human problems and concerned with eradicating human misery, or it is “not worth the name of philosophy.”

Colby philosophy students