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PAPER TITLE: EXPLORING PHILOSOPHY

DATE: Friday, 5 June 2015

PART 1

QUESTION ONE

Explain and assess Hume’s view that the self is nothing more than “an imaginary principle of union”?

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...

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QUESTION TWO

Were Rembrandt’s self-portraits, produced over a period of 40 years all painted by the same person?

QUESTION THREE

Are there ever good grounds to believe that a miracle has occurred?

QUESTION FOUR

Is the existence of evil compatible with the existence of God?

QUESTION FIVE

Does Mill’s appeal to ‘higher’ pleasures fix difficulties facing Bentham’s utilitarianism?

QUESTION SIX

Does Kant’s universalisability test represent a genuine improvement on the Golden Rule?

QUESTION SEVEN

Does Descartes successfully establish that he exists?

QUESTION EIGHT

Can the belief that the course of nature will not change be justified?

QUESTION NINE

Descartes argues that mind and body must be really distinct because we can conceive of them as distinct. Is this a good argument?

QUESTION TEN

How far does your mind extend?

QUESTION ELEVEN

What is philosophical anarchism and is it defensible?

QUESTION TWELVE

Am I obliged to contribute to a co-operative scheme simply because I benefit from it?

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