Exam Details
| Subject | Modern Western Philosophy | |
| Paper | ||
| Exam / Course | Bachelors Degree Programme | |
| Department | School of Social Work (SOSW) | |
| Organization | indira gandhi national open university | |
| Position | ||
| Exam Date | December, 2016 | |
| City, State | new delhi, |
Question Paper
No. of Printed Pages: 4 IBPY-OOSI
BACHELOR'S DEGREE PROGRAMME
(BOP PHILOSOPHY)
00 Term-End Examination
2 December, 2016
ELECTIVE COURSE: PHILOSOPHY
BPY-008 MODERN WESTERN PHILOSOPHY
Time lwurs Maximum Marks 100
Note: Answer all five questions.
All questions carry equal marks.
Answers to question no. 1 and 2 should be in about 400 words each.
1. What are the important features of the Renaissance and Reformation? Examine their influence on modem thought.
OR
What is innate ideas according to Descartes? How did Locke refute innate ideas?
2. Explain the moral philosophy of Kant.
OR
Examine the Hegelean organic theory of Truth and Reality.
3. Answer any two of the following in about 200 words each
How did early discoveries in science change European thought and religious beliefs?
Explain Descartes' method.
What are the three kinds of knowledge according to spinoza? Discuss.
Explain the concept of 'esse est percipi'.
4. Answer any four of the following in about 150 words each
What is understood as Enlightenment? 5
Why did Leibniz conclude "this world as the best of all possible worlds"
What is Locke's theory of ideas 5
Describe Descartes' arguments for God's existence.
Differentiate between phenomenon and noumenon.
Illustrate Comte's classification of the sciences.
5. Write short notes on any five of the following in about 100 words each:
Rationalism 4
Dualism 4
Abstract ideas 4
Impression 4
Skepticism 4
Critique 4
Dialectics 4
Positivism 4
BACHELOR'S DEGREE PROGRAMME
(BOP PHILOSOPHY)
00 Term-End Examination
2 December, 2016
ELECTIVE COURSE: PHILOSOPHY
BPY-008 MODERN WESTERN PHILOSOPHY
Time lwurs Maximum Marks 100
Note: Answer all five questions.
All questions carry equal marks.
Answers to question no. 1 and 2 should be in about 400 words each.
1. What are the important features of the Renaissance and Reformation? Examine their influence on modem thought.
OR
What is innate ideas according to Descartes? How did Locke refute innate ideas?
2. Explain the moral philosophy of Kant.
OR
Examine the Hegelean organic theory of Truth and Reality.
3. Answer any two of the following in about 200 words each
How did early discoveries in science change European thought and religious beliefs?
Explain Descartes' method.
What are the three kinds of knowledge according to spinoza? Discuss.
Explain the concept of 'esse est percipi'.
4. Answer any four of the following in about 150 words each
What is understood as Enlightenment? 5
Why did Leibniz conclude "this world as the best of all possible worlds"
What is Locke's theory of ideas 5
Describe Descartes' arguments for God's existence.
Differentiate between phenomenon and noumenon.
Illustrate Comte's classification of the sciences.
5. Write short notes on any five of the following in about 100 words each:
Rationalism 4
Dualism 4
Abstract ideas 4
Impression 4
Skepticism 4
Critique 4
Dialectics 4
Positivism 4
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