Exam Details
| Subject | Western Philosophy | |
| Paper | ||
| Exam / Course | M.A. PHILOSOPHY (MAPY) | |
| Department | School of Interdisciplinary and Trans-Disciplinary Studies (SOITDS) | |
| Organization | indira gandhi national open university | |
| Position | ||
| Exam Date | December, 2016 | |
| City, State | new delhi, |
Question Paper
1. Describe the major divisions of Western Philosophy and justify the division.
OR
Analyse the importance of Aristotlean metaphysics in the history of Western Philosophy.
2. What is rationalism? Explain the philosophical methods used by Descartes.
OR
Describe the general features of feminism.
3. Answer any two of the following in about 250 words each
Explain Thomas Aquinas' view on the relation between faith and reason.
Examine the importance of synthetic a priori proposition in the philosophy of Kant.
What is Pragmatism? Illustrate the important themes described by the pragmatist philosophers.
What are the major themes in existentialism? Discuss.
4. Answer any four of the following in about 150 words each
What is Being according to Parmenides
Explain the uniqueness of Socratic teaching method.
Describe the skepticism of Hume.
Describe Hegel's dialectic method.
What was Nietzsche's take on the Christian moralitv
What is the picture theory of meaning?
5. Write short notes on any five of the following in about 100 words each
Pythagorean brotherhood
The world of Forms
Divine illumination
Mutazilism
Empiricism
Categorical imperative
Economic alienation
Bracketing (epoche)
OR
Analyse the importance of Aristotlean metaphysics in the history of Western Philosophy.
2. What is rationalism? Explain the philosophical methods used by Descartes.
OR
Describe the general features of feminism.
3. Answer any two of the following in about 250 words each
Explain Thomas Aquinas' view on the relation between faith and reason.
Examine the importance of synthetic a priori proposition in the philosophy of Kant.
What is Pragmatism? Illustrate the important themes described by the pragmatist philosophers.
What are the major themes in existentialism? Discuss.
4. Answer any four of the following in about 150 words each
What is Being according to Parmenides
Explain the uniqueness of Socratic teaching method.
Describe the skepticism of Hume.
Describe Hegel's dialectic method.
What was Nietzsche's take on the Christian moralitv
What is the picture theory of meaning?
5. Write short notes on any five of the following in about 100 words each
Pythagorean brotherhood
The world of Forms
Divine illumination
Mutazilism
Empiricism
Categorical imperative
Economic alienation
Bracketing (epoche)
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