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PAPER TITLE: EXPLORING PHILOSOPHY

DATE: Wednesday, 7 June 2017

PART 1

Question ONE

Critically discuss David Hume’s claim that we do not have an ‘enduring self.

SOLUTION

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 fiction or imaginary principle of union.

Hume claims that no impression is constant and invariable, whether pain or pleasure, grief or joy, passion, sensations, that none of them exist at the same time. Therefore, it cannot be from any of these impressions or any other that the idea of self is derived…

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Question TWO

Why does Derek Parfit think that an ‘unchanging self’ is an illusion? Is he right?

PART 2

Question THREE

Discuss and assess any ONE argument against God’s existence: for example, the problem of evil.

Question FOUR

‘Appealing to miracles not only does not prove God’s existence; it could not prove God’s existence.’ Discuss.

Question FIVE

What challenge does Glaucon set using the example of Gyges’ invisibility ring? Is Socrates’ response convincing?

Question SIX

Does utilitarianism supply a convincing answer to the question ‘What ought I to do?’?

Question SEVEN

Evaluate Descartes’ use of the method of doubt to establish knowledge of his own existence.

Question EIGHT

Is David Hume right in claiming that induction cannot be rationally justified?

Question NINE

Is my mind distinct from my body in the ways Descartes claimed?

Question TEN

In asking what it is like to be a bat, what is Nagel aiming to demonstrate? Does he succeed?

Question ELEVEN

Explain and evaluate Rawls’s account of distributive justice.

Question TWELVE

Compare and contrast luck egalitarianism and democratic egalitarianism. Which is the most plausible and why?

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