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 | June, 2016 | |
| City, State | new delhi, |
Question Paper
Illustrate Plato's epistemology with the simile of the divided line and the allegory of the cave.
Critically examine the arguments for God's existence by Thomas Aquinas.
What is Cartesian dualism? Why is it treated as a problem?
What is existentialism? Explain the sources and characteristics of existentialism.
3. Answer any two of the following in about 250 words each
Explain some of the major themes of pre-socratic philosophers.
Describe the philosophy of Al-Gazah.
Explain briefly Kant's Philosophy of knowledge.
What are the characteristics of ordinary language philosophy?
4. Answer any four of the following in about 150 words each.
Describe act and potency.
Bring out the uniqueness of the cosmology of Augustine.
illustrate the laws of association of ideas.
What is dialectic method according to Hegel?
What is alienation according to Marx
Explain the theory of concrescence.
5. Write short notes on any five of the following in about 100 words each.
Renaissance
The Sophists
Socratic ethics
The Unicity of God
Empiricism
Death of God and morality
Eidetic reduction
Postmodernism
Critically examine the arguments for God's existence by Thomas Aquinas.
What is Cartesian dualism? Why is it treated as a problem?
What is existentialism? Explain the sources and characteristics of existentialism.
3. Answer any two of the following in about 250 words each
Explain some of the major themes of pre-socratic philosophers.
Describe the philosophy of Al-Gazah.
Explain briefly Kant's Philosophy of knowledge.
What are the characteristics of ordinary language philosophy?
4. Answer any four of the following in about 150 words each.
Describe act and potency.
Bring out the uniqueness of the cosmology of Augustine.
illustrate the laws of association of ideas.
What is dialectic method according to Hegel?
What is alienation according to Marx
Explain the theory of concrescence.
5. Write short notes on any five of the following in about 100 words each.
Renaissance
The Sophists
Socratic ethics
The Unicity of God
Empiricism
Death of God and morality
Eidetic reduction
Postmodernism
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- Dalit Philosophy
- Epistemology
- Ethics
- Gandhian Philosophy
- Indian Philosophy
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