{"id":9623,"date":"2012-03-31T10:37:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T14:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/news\/article.php?ArticleID=9623"},"modified":"2012-03-31T10:37:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-31T14:37:40","slug":"9623_-165-attend-philosophy-in-the-schools-day-for-secondary-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/institute-for-the-humanities\/2012\/03\/31\/9623_-165-attend-philosophy-in-the-schools-day-for-secondary-students\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;165 Attend Philosophy in the Schools Day for Secondary Students&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Students and teachers from 16 New Jersey high schools, ranging from the nearby Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Kimberly Academy to Southern Regional in Manahawkin, came to campus Friday, February 10th to take part in our first-ever Philosophy in the Schools Day. &nbsp;This year, the Institute for the Humanities teamed up with the Department of Philosophy and Religion to offer a new program, &quot;The Examined Life.&quot; &nbsp;It featured Logic and Ethics as areas of inquiry that allow us to approach Socrates\u2019 ideal of the \u201cexamined life,\u201d not only to expand students&#8217; intellectual and moral capacities, but also to enhance and add &nbsp;meaning to life. &nbsp;Drs. David Benfield and Kirk McDermid led the Logic sessions. &nbsp;Drs. Chris Herrera and Dorothy Rogers offered the sessions on Ethics.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>According to Institute for the Humanities Director, Victoria Larson, this program which &quot;was based on the tried-and-true format of the Institute\u2019s successful and long-running Humanities in the Schools days . . . exceeded our wildest dreams in terms of attendance and interest!\u201d &nbsp;Dorothy Rogers, Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion adds, &quot;When we first conceived of this idea, we were hoping for . . . oh, maybe 40 or so students to sign up. &nbsp;But it seems like the &quot;love of wisdom&quot; is alive and well in area high schools, and we are eager to offer Philosophy in the Schools Day again next year.&quot; &nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students and teachers from 16 New Jersey high schools, ranging from the nearby Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Kimberly Academy to Southern Regional in Manahawkin, came to campus Friday, February 10th to take part in our first-ever Philosophy in the Schools Day. &nbsp;This year, the Institute for the Humanities teamed up with the Department of Philosophy and Religion to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-221_institute-for-the-humanities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/institute-for-the-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/institute-for-the-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/institute-for-the-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/institute-for-the-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/institute-for-the-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/institute-for-the-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/institute-for-the-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/institute-for-the-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/institute-for-the-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}