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PAPER TITLE: EXPLORING PHILOSOPHY

DATE: Tuesday, 11 June 2013

PART 1

QUESTION ONE

Is personal identity a matter of bodily continuity?

According to Hume, all the nice and subtle questions concerning personal identity can never be possibly decided and should be regarded as grammatical rather than philosophical difficulties. Hume posits that identity depends upon the relations of ideas, and these relations are what produce identity by means of the easy transition which they occasion. But as the relations and the ease of the transition may diminish by insensible degrees, there are no such standards by which we can decide any dispute concerning the time they acquire or lose a title to the name of identity.

According to Hume, all the disputes concerning the identity of connected objects are merely verbal except so far as the relation of parts gives rise to some...

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QUESTION TWO

Do Parfit’s thought experiments help us make sense of personal identity?

PART 2

QUESTION THREE

State and assess the argument from design.

QUESTION FOUR

State the problem of evil. Can theists solve it?

QUESTION FIVE

Describe ONE change that Mill made to Bentham’s version of utilitarianism. Why did he make it and was it an improvement?

QUESTION SIX

What gives acts moral worth, according to Kant? Was he right?

QUESTION SEVEN

Is certainty required for genuine knowledge? Discuss in connection with Descartes’ method of doubt.

QUESTION EIGHT

Has Popper solved Hume’s problem of induction?

QUESTION NINE

Why did Descartes think we are composed of two distinct substances? Was he right?

QUESTION TEN

Is your diary part of your mind?

QUESTION ELEVEN

Explain and assess the consent theory of political obligation?

QUESTION TWELVE

If you are born with a talent, do you deserve the full benefits that flow from you exercising that talent? Answer with reference to Rawls OR Nozick OR both.

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