MORAL PHILOSOPHY.

Intra-Mural.

nswer three questions in A, one in B, and two in C.

A.

1. Discuss Mill's account of (a) induction, (b) causation. 2. Can knowledge and morality be explained on the theory of natural selection?

3.

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

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

B.

5. State and criticise Comte's "law of the three stages." 6. How does Kant solve the antinomy of necessity and freedom?

which

C.

7: “Of the first philosophers, most thought the principles were of the nature of matter were the only principles of all things." (Aristotle).

Explain, with examples, the problem which the pre-Socratic philosophers attempted to solve.

8. Criticise the Socratic view that virtue is knowledge.

9. What is the ethical significance of the idea of the good in Plato's philosophy?

ECONOMICS.

Two questions in each of Sections A and C, and Section B will constitute a full paper.

A.

1. Explain the following terms: wealth, welfare, psychic income, capital, capitalization, production, the elastic share. in profits, monopoly price, speculation, surplus or rest fund, rate of exchange, marginal utility, industrial union, intensive margin, closed shop, Fabianism.

2. Ca Compare the natural advantages of the United Kingdom and of Germany in the race for industrial and commercial supremacy. (b) State and account for the different economic development of Belgium and of Holland. (c) Illustrate from North America the effect of climate.

3. What does a bank do for a community?

What

(b)

are a bank's sources of income? (c) Compare the effectiveness of the Canadian and the American systems of note-issues under normal and abnormal conditions. (d) Outline the inspection plan adopted by Canadian banks, and contrast it with the American method.

B.

4. (a) What economic function does a great money-market such as Wall Street perform? (b) What have been the main causes which have brought about the corporate form of enterprise?

(c) What has been the trend of business organization in Canada in recent years? (d) What are the main features of the Anti-Combines Act of 1910?

5. What is your theory of state action in the industrial

field?

Apply to proposal for municipal ownership of street

railways, freeing of toll-roads, free street railway transportation, municipal bakeshops.

C.

6. (a) Is there any likeness between trade-union policies and tariffs? (b) Between tariff and factory legislation? (c) Outline the present reciprocity proposals between Canada and the United States, and discuss these under the following heads: (1) effect on prices, (2) effect upon Canadian trade development, (3) effect upon trade within the Empire.

7. (a) What have been the causes of the recent rise in prices? (b) What is the function of the index number? (c) Compare government note-issues with bank note-issues as regards their efficiency. (d) Why did United States notes fluctuate so violently during the Civil War?

8. (a) What are the chief reforms advocated for the abolition of poverty? (b) Compare profit-sharing and collective bargaining as solutions of the labour problem.