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PASS.

Junior Philosophy.

For Intra-murals.

1. What, according to Plato, is False Opinion? Examine his view.

2. "God is without envy." What view of creation is contained in this statement? Discuss the question.

3. Is pleasure an element in the Chief Good? What is the view of Aristotle?

4. Outline Aristotle's treatment of "friendship." Is it sufficient?

5. How are the passions connected with reason in Aristotle's definition of Virtue? How far is the definition adequate?

6. Consider the theory that "Reality" is the "First Cause."

PASS.

Junior Philosophy.

For Extra-murals.

1. What, according to Plato, is False Opinion? Examine his view.

2. Is pleasure an element of the Chief Good? What is the view of Aristotle?

3. How are the passions connected with reason in Aristotle's definition of Virtue? How far is the definition adequate?

4. What are the Stoic and Epicurean views of man's duty to the state? Discuss the question.

5. What, according to Descartes, is the criterion of reality?

6. Why has Berkeley's idealism been called "subjective"? Can you show that "the ideal is the real" without adopting the view of Berkeley?

PASS.

Senior Philosophy.

Only seven of these questions are to be done.

1. "Plato does not attempt to understand Protagoras from his own point of view." How far is this true?

2. Does knowledge ever consist in the apprehension of particulars? Apply your answer in criticism of Comte's doctrine of the relativity of knowledge.

3. Criticise Mill's view that geometrical propositions are not universal and necessary.

4. How does Kant reply to Hume's doctrine that there is no necessary connexion of cause and effect?

5. What reasons may be advanced, apart from Darwinism, for holding that living beings must be regarded as purposive?

6. Criticise the Cartesian doctrine of " innate ideas.

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7. What assumptions are made by Mill in his "laws of association?"

8. "The category of 'cause' cannot be legitimately applied to express the relation between existence as a whole and its modes." Explain.

9. Distinguish between Stoicism, Self-renunciation and the ethical doctrine of Kant.

10. State and examine Kant's proofs of immortality and the being of God.

11. "Kant virtually admits that rights presuppose society." Explain.

12. State and criticise the main points in the evolutionist aspect of Spencer's ethics.

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