History and World Philosophies

About this course

History and world philosophies is a combination that opens up perspectives on human thought and experience far beyond the familiar boundaries of the Western tradition. History examines how societies have changed, how events have been shaped by contingency, power and human agency, and how the past continues to influence the present. Philosophy of a global kind asks foundational questions about reality, knowledge, ethics, mind and meaning, and it does so by engaging seriously with traditions from Asia, Africa, the Middle East and the Americas as well as Europe. Studying these two disciplines together at SOAS is distinctive because the institution's entire focus is on the cultures, languages and intellectual traditions of the non-Western world. At the School of Oriental and African Studies, this three-year full-time programme is available with a foundation year, which gives you an addition

Where its graduates go

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