Exam Details

Subject Ancient And Medieval Western Philosophy
Paper
Exam / Course Bachelors Degree Programme
Department School of Social Work (SOSW)
Organization indira gandhi national open university
Position
Exam Date December, 2015
City, State new delhi,


Question Paper

1. Define Philosophy. Explain its scope and importance.
OR
Explain the philosophical contributions of Sophists thinkers.

2. Evaluate the important philosophical teachings of St. Thomas Acquinas.
OR
Give a detailed account of the similarities and differences between Stoicism and Epicureanism.

3. Answer any two of the following in about 200 words each

Analyse the importance of Socratic method and his ethics.

Give an account of the philosophy of World and Ethics in teachings of St. Augustine.

What do you understand by 'method' in philosophy? Describe briefly Dialectic, Retortive and Cartesian methods.

Explain Plato's philosophy of human beings.

4. Answer any four of the following in about 150 words each

Distinguish between wisdom and knowledge.

Discuss the relation between metaphysics and epistemology as branches of philosophy.

Explain the concept of in Parmenides.

Examine the important aspects in the philosophy of Avicenna.

Describe Aristotle's philosophy of God.

Examine the central theme in the philosophy of plotinus.

5. Write short notes on any five of the following in about 100 words each

Individuation

Skepticism

Humanism

Anaximander

Cynicism

Philosophy of mind

Existentialism


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Subjects

  • Ancient And Medieval Western Philosophy
  • Contemporary Western Philosophy
  • Epistemology
  • Ethics
  • Indian Philosophy :Part I
  • Indian Philosophy-Ii
  • Logic: Classical And Symbolic
  • Metaphysics
  • Modern Western Philosophy
  • Philosophy Of Human Person
  • Philosophy Of Religion
  • Philosophy Of Science And Cosmology
  • Religions Of The World
  • Tribal And Dalit Philosophy