The mission of the Faculty of Philosophy as a centre of education of and research into philosophy of the country is to train experts in Juche philosophy fully imbued with great Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism and to make an active contribution to the development of social science theories of the country.
It was formed in 1961 by merging the philosophy department and psychology department, which had belonged to the Faculty of History. It was incorporated into the Faculty of Law in 1976 before it became independent in 1980.
It has nine departments, which include the Department of Fundamentals of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, the Department of Works of Comrade Kim Jong Un, the Department of Revolutionary Ideology of the great Comrade Kim Jong Un, the Department of Juche Philosophy, the Department of History of Philosophy, the Psychology Department, the Logic Department, the Department of Ethics and Aesthetics and the Department of Applied Sociology.
It offers courses in Juche Philosophy and Psychology.
![Juche Philosophy]( "Juche Philosophy")
The main subjects include "Works of Comrade Kim Jong Un", "Fundamentals of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism", "Juche-Oriented Philosophical World Outlook", "Juche-Oriented Socio-Historical Outlook", "Juche-Oriented Revolutionary Outlook", "Juche-Oriented Outlook on Life", "Psychology", "Logic", "Ethics", "History of Korean Philosophy", "Tonghak", "History of Logic", "History of Marxist-Leninist Philosophy", "History of Eastern Philosophy", "History of Eastern Political Ideas" and "Sociology".
