{"id":14742,"date":"2025-07-10T04:12:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T04:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.pgihs.ac.lk\/?page_id=14742"},"modified":"2025-07-10T04:13:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T04:13:19","slug":"postgraduate-diploma-in-philosophy-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/web.pgihs.ac.lk\/index.php\/postgraduate-diploma-in-philosophy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Postgraduate Diploma in Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"14742\" class=\"elementor elementor-14742\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-df6c722 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"df6c722\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-76462e6 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"76462e6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.22.0 - 26-06-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>The Postgraduate Diploma in Philosophy intends to train students to think clearly, logically and critically about the deepest and broadest questions concerning life, being, knowledge, values and their connections to the full range of human activities. It has the following objectives: to provide foundation knowledge required for graduates from other disciplines and to reinforce philosophical knowledge acquired by students during their Bachelor\u2019s degree programme.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p><em>\u00a0<\/em>Courses offered:<\/p><table width=\"612\"><tbody><tr><td width=\"96\"><p><strong>Course Code\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p><\/td><td width=\"372\"><p><strong>Course Title\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p><\/td><td width=\"72\"><p><strong>Credits\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p><\/td><td width=\"72\"><p><strong>Status <\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"96\"><p>PHY501<\/p><\/td><td width=\"372\"><p>Issues in Philosophy<\/p><\/td><td width=\"72\"><p>3<\/p><\/td><td width=\"72\"><p>C<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"96\"><p>PHY502<\/p><\/td><td width=\"372\"><p>Modern Western Philosophy<\/p><\/td><td width=\"72\"><p>3<\/p><\/td><td width=\"72\"><p>C<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"96\"><p>PHY503<\/p><\/td><td width=\"372\"><p>Indian Philosophy<\/p><\/td><td width=\"72\"><p>3<\/p><\/td><td width=\"72\"><p>C<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"96\"><p>PHY504<\/p><\/td><td width=\"372\"><p>Classical Ethics-East and West<\/p><\/td><td width=\"72\"><p>3<\/p><\/td><td width=\"72\"><p>C<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"96\"><p>PHY505<\/p><\/td><td width=\"372\"><p>Ethics and Social Philosophy of Buddhism<\/p><\/td><td width=\"72\"><p>3<\/p><\/td><td width=\"72\"><p>C<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"96\"><p>PHY506<\/p><\/td><td width=\"372\"><p>Philosophy and Psychology of Education<\/p><\/td><td width=\"72\"><p>3<\/p><\/td><td width=\"72\"><p>C<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"96\"><p>PHY507<\/p><\/td><td width=\"372\"><p>Seminar on Methodology<\/p><\/td><td width=\"72\"><p>3<\/p><\/td><td width=\"72\"><p>C<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Apart from the above courses, students are required to follow courses equivalent to maximum of 4 credits from other disciplines to complete the programme. 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