Save Philosophy at Greenwich [Philosophers] Petition: Signature List Feed http://gopetition.com/signatures/save-philosophy-at-greenwich-philosophers.html Online petition signatures en-us Wed, 22 Apr 2026 03:22 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition John Gray [Signature #28] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10170410?utm_medium=rss We think our actions express our decisions. But in nearly all of our life, willing decides nothing. We cannot wake up or fall asleep, remember or forget our dreams, summon or banish our thoughts, by deciding to do so. When we greet someone on the street we just act, and there is no actor standing behind what we do. Our acts are end points in long sequences of unconscious responses. They arise from a structure of habits and skills that is almost infinitely complicated. Most of our life in enacte

]]> Wed, 6 Apr 2011 08:07:03 UTC 10170410 Miss Emma Old [Signature #27] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10160840?utm_medium=rss Philosophy at Greenwich has taught me so much about life, it gives students the chance to use their logic and reasoning in ways we would never know how without Philosophy. I would just like to add that Kath Jones, Mick Bolwes, Matt Lee and Jim Urpeth and the best teachers I have ever had in my 16yrs of sudying and to see them potentially out of a job is very sad because you should be recruiting more teachers like these instead of trying to get rid of them.

]]> Tue, 5 Apr 2011 04:15:53 UTC 10160840 Mr Robert McNicol [Signature #26] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10155931?utm_medium=rss A university that loses its philosophy department loses its soul; clearly the powers that be at Greenwich have forgotten about little things like learning and knowledge. Philosophy is the finest subject and should be cherished by all.

]]> Mon, 4 Apr 2011 11:59:55 UTC 10155931 Mr Albert Camus [Signature #25] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10146810?utm_medium=rss How else could a poor Algerian boy overcome his poor upbringing in Belcourt, Algeria, and become the second youngest nobel prize winner for literature other than through a love for philosophy?

"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door".

Philosophy should not only be for the elite.

]]> Sun, 3 Apr 2011 09:24:29 UTC 10146810 Miss Annabel Coggins [Signature #24] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10139257?utm_medium=rss Sat, 2 Apr 2011 07:01:36 UTC 10139257 Socrates Socrates [Signature #23] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10138330?utm_medium=rss "Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."

]]> Sat, 2 Apr 2011 05:35:27 UTC 10138330 Karl Popper [Signature #22] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10134475?utm_medium=rss We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

]]> Fri, 1 Apr 2011 07:12:00 UTC 10134475 Albert Einstein [Signature #21] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10134412?utm_medium=rss This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by a educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. In such an econ

]]> Fri, 1 Apr 2011 06:51:29 UTC 10134412 Jean Jacques Rousseau [Signature #20] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10134403?utm_medium=rss Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education.

]]> Fri, 1 Apr 2011 06:50:07 UTC 10134403 Henri Bergson [Signature #19] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10134388?utm_medium=rss Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

]]> Fri, 1 Apr 2011 06:45:09 UTC 10134388 Henry David Thoreau [Signature #18] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10134381?utm_medium=rss To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.

]]> Fri, 1 Apr 2011 06:42:33 UTC 10134381 Professor Alfred Jules Ayer [Signature #17] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10134119?utm_medium=rss It might be thought that the philosophical elucidation of scientific theories was required only for the popularization of science, and could not be of much benefit for the scientists themselves. But this would be a mistake.

]]> Fri, 1 Apr 2011 05:40:29 UTC 10134119 Victor Hugo [Signature #16] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10133901?utm_medium=rss Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

]]> Fri, 1 Apr 2011 04:50:57 UTC 10133901 Aristotle Of Virtue Ethics [Signature #15] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10133877?utm_medium=rss I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

]]> Fri, 1 Apr 2011 04:47:17 UTC 10133877 Friedrich Schiller [Signature #14] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10133849?utm_medium=rss Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

]]> Fri, 1 Apr 2011 04:41:49 UTC 10133849 Immanuel Kant [Signature #13] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10133837?utm_medium=rss Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

]]> Fri, 1 Apr 2011 04:39:47 UTC 10133837 Friedrich Nietzsche [Signature #12] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10133832?utm_medium=rss All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

]]> Fri, 1 Apr 2011 04:38:20 UTC 10133832 Confucius the Master [Signature #11] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10133805?utm_medium=rss Confucius say: We should be 'a transmitter and not a maker, believing in and loving the ancients.' Those who forget past philosophy are doomed to invent nonsense. And the one who denigrates the love of wisdom loves only worldly wealth.

]]> Fri, 1 Apr 2011 04:33:45 UTC 10133805 Primo Levi [Signature #10] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10133673?utm_medium=rss I don’t understand and I can’t bear how a man can be judged not for what he is but because of the group to which he happens to belong'

]]> Fri, 1 Apr 2011 04:13:28 UTC 10133673 Mr. Joseph Raganas [Signature #9] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10133640?utm_medium=rss The ideas conceived by a society have profound repercussions on what actions the society performs. Philosophy and Philosophers play a crucial role as society's superego, it's conscience, it's guide... you take that away and all you will have is the ego and the ID - A rudderless ship. Yes, your ship will stay afloat, but it will be a slave to the winds of economy and expediency, and easily swallowed by the tides of change.

]]> Fri, 1 Apr 2011 04:08:21 UTC 10133640 Jean-Paul Sartre [Signature #8] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10133615?utm_medium=rss A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

]]> Fri, 1 Apr 2011 04:01:55 UTC 10133615 William James [Signature #7] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10133543?utm_medium=rss A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

]]> Fri, 1 Apr 2011 03:49:53 UTC 10133543 Professor Christian Munthe [Signature #6] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10133538?utm_medium=rss It is evident, that all the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature: and that however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still return back by one passage or another. Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Natural Religion, are in some measure dependent on the science of MAN; since the lie under the cognizance of men, and are judged of by their powers and faculties." David Hume (A Treatise of Human Nature, Introduction)

]]> Fri, 1 Apr 2011 03:49:06 UTC 10133538 Soren Kierkegaard [Signature #5] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10133534?utm_medium=rss What a difference there is between those times when, no matter how secular materialism always was, man believed in the solitude of the convent, when, in other words, solitude was revered as the highest, as the destiny of Eternity - and the present when it is detested as a curse and is used only for the punishment of criminals. Alas, what a change.

]]> Fri, 1 Apr 2011 03:48:30 UTC 10133534 Ralph Waldo Emerson [Signature #4] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10133533?utm_medium=rss A man is what he thinks about all day long.

]]> Fri, 1 Apr 2011 03:48:28 UTC 10133533 John Dewey [Signature #3] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10133506?utm_medium=rss Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

]]> Fri, 1 Apr 2011 03:44:49 UTC 10133506 Mr G. W. F. Hegel [Signature #2] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10133495?utm_medium=rss Education to independence demands that young people should be accustomed early to consult their own sense of propriety and their own reason. To regard study as mere receptivity and memory work is to have a most incomplete view of what instruction means.

]]> Fri, 1 Apr 2011 03:43:05 UTC 10133495 Plato Of the academy [Signature #1] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10133486?utm_medium=rss A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

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