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MENTAL PHILOSOPHY.

Intra-Mural.

Candidates are expected to attempt two questions in each section. Answers to Section 4 should be written in a separate book.

A.

1. Explain carefully the mode in which the mind avails itself of past experience.

2. Discuss the psychological influence of society on the individual.

3. What is the nature and psychological importance of attention?

B.

1. Is pleasure the end of life? In answering weigh carefully Aristotle's views on this point.

2. Explain the nature of "self-mastery." answer to the problem of good and evil.

Apply your

3. What does Hegel mean by the statement that freedom consists in willing the absolutely free will?

4. Discuss the nature of magic and its relation to religion.

C.

1. What is the general significance of the philosophy of the Sophists in relation to (a) the pre-Sophistic philosophy, and (b) Plato.

2. Give Plato's proof of the existence of a "central sense." What part does it play in his theory of ideas?

3. What is Bacon's criticism of Aristotle's doctrine of happiness? Examine its value.

4. What is Aristotle's main contribution to philosophy? Show especially where it appears in his Ethics.

MENTAL PHILOSOPHY.

Extra-Mural.

1. State briefly Plato's theory of education, and carefully estimate his social philosophy as therein outlined.

2." The soul is the first actuality of a naturally organized body possessing life potentially." Explain Aristotle's definition and define italicized terms.

3. State and distinctly relate the physical and ethical theo

ries of Stoicism.

4. Outline the theory of Epicurus. Examine the view that Pleasure is the chief end of Life.

5. What is DesCartes' view of (a) self; (b) body, and (c) God?

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6. Did men but consider that every object of the senses are only So many sensations in their minds, which have no

other existence but barely being perceived, doubtless they

would rather things.

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fall down and worship their own ideas; but that Eternal Mind that produces and sustains all Explain and examine this saying of Berkeley.

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and

2.

MORAL PHILOSOPHY.

Extra-Mural.

State and criticise Comte's "law of the three stages," his doctrine of the relativity of knowledge.

Discuss Mill's account of (a) induction, (b) causation. Can knowledge and morality be explained on the theory of natural selection?

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4.

To have a motive and to be free are the same thing." Discuss this statement. State briefly and criticise Kant's of freedom.

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5. ◄◄ If human nature is so constituted as to desire nothing which is not either a part of happiness or a means of happiwe can have no other proof and we require no other that these are the only things desirable." Discuss this saying of Mill.

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6.

God

How does Kant justify the belief in the existence of and in immortality? Are his views satisfactory?

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