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PAPER TITLE: EXPLORING PHILOSOPHY

DATE: Friday, 15 June 2013

PART 1

QUESTION ONE

Are you now the same person as the person who started this module?

According to John Locke on his principle of personal identity, that which makes a person the same person over time is consciousness. He believes as long as a person retains consciousness or memory of a past action, the person who remembers as well as the person remembered are one and same person. He tries to establish a difference between the concepts of man, person and substance. According to Locke, many people confuse the terms ‘man’ and ‘person’ together but they are different concepts entirely. This is because a ‘man’ is only a member of the homo-sapiens species, while a person is a “rational, self-aware being capable of perceiving of themselves as existing over time.” In explaining this distinction between a ‘man’ and a ‘person’, Locke used the example of a severely disabled adult. According to Locke, such a...

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QUESTION TWO

Does David Hume show that the self is just an illusion?

PART 2

QUESTION THREE

Does the problem of evil prove that there is no God?

QUESTION FOUR

Critically assess the argument that religious experience supports the claim that God exists.

QUESTION FIVE

What is Glaucon’s challenge? Assess Socrates’s strongest response to it.

QUESTION SIX

What is Judith Jarvis Thomson’s violinist analogy meant to show? Does it?

QUESTION SEVEN

Is my belief that because bread nourished me yesterday it will nourish me tomorrow based on reason? Discuss with reference to David Hume.

QUESTION EIGHT

How does Karl Popper demarcate science and non-science? Is his demarcation justified?

QUESTION NINE

On what grounds does Descartes think we are made up of two substances? Are we?

QUESTION TEN

Can there be a complete physicalist account of consciousness?

QUESTION ELEVEN

What, if anything, can a citizen do to avoid obligations to the state?

QUESTION TWELVE

‘Economic equality is a fine ideal but it is undermined by self-interest.’ Discuss.

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