Operating under the College of Humanities, the Department of Philosophy was established in 1948, and has pursued an earnest life and the correct world-view through academic explorations. Currently, the department accepts 30 undergraduate students per year, and operates M.A. and Ph.D. programs. The faculty of the department consists of professors who hold academic degrees from prestigious universities in Korea and overseas, and who are involved in significant and diverse research activities. The department aims to educate leaders that are equipped with a universal approach who can identify the rapidly changing ideologies of the world, analyze the influences of such changes on history and society, and discover the appropriate ive for the individual and society. The department offers philosophy education, which serves as the foundation for other studies, to enable students to pursue an earnest life and the correct world-view. Educational ive Philosophy pursues the essence and the basic principles of interpreting and speculating on human beings, society, and the world. Philosophers pursue such questions as what a human being is and how he or she should live; how a society is formed; what is the good society; how we can appropriately recognize the world; and how we can prove that our recognition is right. Philosophy is “a study of studies” in the sense that it looks into the hypotheses or issues that are accepted in other areas of study to verify how we justify our practices, ethical rules, and laws. We can develop an appropriate and critical view of humanity, society, and the world through philosophical approaches. Curriculum Overview The curriculum of the department encompasses diverse areas of philosophy. The graduate programs feature Western Philosophy, Social Philosophy, and Eastern Philosophy. Western Philosophy programs, such as Ontology, Epistemology, physics, and Logic investigate the fundamental relations between humans and society. Social Philosophy programs include Theory of Man, Theory of Value, Ethics, Historical & Political Philosophy, Theory of Arts, and Aesthetics, and pursue the meaning of human life and the better life in the context of humans, society, and the world. Eastern Philosophy programs aim to study approaches to the above issues that are differentiated from Western approaches. Korean Philosophy, Chinese Philosophy, and Indian Philosophy are included.