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MORAL PHILOSOPHY.

Intra-Mural.

1. What defects in the method of Descartes may be obviated by the study of philosophy in its history? Show how that method leads to the dualism of mind and matter.

2. Criticise Plato's division of the soul into appetite, spirit and reason. To what imperfection in his conception of the State does it naturally lead?

3. What are the respective merits and defects of the Socratic and Aristotelian definitions of virtue?

4. Point out the true and the false elements in ascetic systems of morality.

5. Criticise Kant's distinction between duties of 'perfect' and 'imperfect' obligation.

6. "The problem of freedom is the problem of motives." Discuss this saying by reference to 66 determinism and

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MORAL PHILOSOPHY.

Extra-Mural.

1. Criticise Comte's law of the three stages.

2. "The first principles of arithmetic are generalisations from experience." Explain and examine this doc

trine of Mill.

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3. Contrast the Cartesian and Leibnitzian philosophies.

4. Point out the true and the false elements in ascetic systems of morality.

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5. "The problem of freedom is the problem of motives " Discuss this saying by reference to determinism" and liberty of indifference."

6. How do Bentham and Mill differ in their view of pleasure? Is either doctrine satisfactory?

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