PHILOSOPHY-2015: Daily Answer Writing Challenge – 9 Archives Why does Spinoza think that God alone is absolutely real? Explain. (2010/20) Interactionism in the philosophical context. Short notes (2009/20) Compare the views of Leibnitz and Hume on the concept of substance. (2009/30) Compare the views of Spinoza and Sartre on Freedom. (2009/30)
PHILOSOPHY-2015: Daily Answer Writing Challenge – 8 Archives How does Descartes’ ‘cogito ergo sum’ affect Hume and Kant’s transcendental philosophy? Explain (2012/12) Is the concept of freedom consistent with the theory of determinism of Spinoza? Support your answer with arguments (2011/30) Why does Descartes not doubt the existence of God? Explain. (2011/15)
PHILOSOPHY-2015: Daily Answer Writing Challenge – 7 Archives Does Monadology sufficiently exlain the nature of Substance ? Are monads independent of each other ? Expain.(2012/15) Does Leibnitz succeed in combining the mechanical with the teleological view of the world? Explain his theory of Pre-Established Harmony.(2012/15) If ‘ Every determination is negation ‘ then how can Substance have attributes ? …
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PHILOSOPHY-2015: Daily Answer Writing Challenge – 6 Archives Write a short critical essay on spinoza’s conception of freedom of an individual. Explain Descarte’s method of doubt. Can this method be used to justify his belief in the existence of God ? Argue your case. Give a critical account of Leibnitz’s principle of the identity of indiscernibles .
PSYCHOLOGY – 2015: Daily Answer Writing Challenge – 13 ARCHIVES 1. What do you understand by attitudes, values and interests. Trace the link between them with examples. 2. Explain the characteristics of the source of message that strongly affects ones response to an attempt at changing attitudes. 3. Explain the role of mental set and …
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PHILOSOPHY-2015: Daily Answer Writing Challenge – 5 Archives 1) ‘While Plato’s metaphysics is a visionary one, Aristotle’s metaphysics is a descriptive one.’ Explain fully giving the essential differences between the views of the two thinkers regarding the nature of reality. (2002/60) 2) Rationalism (Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz): Cartesian Method and Certain Knowledge; Substance; God; Mind-Body Dualism; Determinism and …
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PHILOSOPHY-2015: Daily Answer Writing Challenge – 4 Archives Discuss the ‘theory of matter’ according to Aristotle. Short Notes. Distinction between opinion and knowledge. Short Notes. State and discuss Plato’s theory of forms. ‘A universal exists only in the particular’. Discuss in this connection Aristotle’s notion of universal and the idea of substance that follows it.
PHILOSOPHY-2015: Daily Answer Writing Challenge – 3 Archives 1) How does Aristotle’s notion of causation defer from the modern notion of causation. 2) Comment on – Plato’s analogy of the cave and its significance in his theory of knowledge. 3) Aristotle’s teleological conception of causation. Short Notes 4) Plato’s recollection theory of knowledge. Short Notes.
PHILOSOPHY-2015: Daily Answer Writing Challenge – 2 Archives 1) How does Aristotle’s notion of causation defer from the modern notion of causation. (2010/15) 2) Comment on – Plato’s analogy of the cave and its significance in his theory of knowledge. (2009/20) 3) Aristotle’s teleological conception of causation. Short Notes (2008/20) 4) Plato’s recollection theory of knowledge. Short Notes. …
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PHILOSOPHY-2015: Daily Answer Writing Challenge – 1 Archives WESTERN PHILOSOPHY Plato and Aristotle: Ideas; Substance; Form and Matter; Causation;Actuality and Potentiality Explain Plato’s ontological theory of Forms. Is knowledge one of the Forms ? Explain. (2013: 12 ½) Discuss how by refuting different concepts of Substances Aristotle establishes his own theory of a Substance ? (2013/10) Discuss …
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