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Assignment – 8
Note:
i) Answer all five questions
ii) All questions carry equal marks
iii) Answer to question no. 1 and 2 should be in about 400 words each.
1. The revival that happened in many aspects of human life during renaissance had
great significance for western thought. Explain. 20
Or
Write an essay on Berkeley’s rejection of abstract ideas.
How does he focus his metaphysics on ‘Esse est percipi’? Explain. 20
2. Analyze the Cartesian understanding of the world.
How does he explain the relationship between mind and body? 20
Or
Explain the Kantian norms on ethics with special reference to the categorical imperatives. 20
3. Answer any two of the following questions in about 200 words each:
a. Explain the salient features of Platonic Ethics. 10
b. Describe the views of some philosophers on suicide. 10
c. Narrate absolute freedom as the central theme of existentialism. 10
d. What was the Marxian method of dialectical materialism? 10
4. Answer any four of the following in about 150 words each:
a. What is the nature of violence? 5
b. Explicate the moral issues involved in an abortion? 5
c. Does Hume agree on free will? 5
d. Discuss briefly Locke’s concept of primary and secondary qualities. 5
e. Describe the law of sufficient reason. 5
f. Write a short note on logical positivism. 5
5. Write short notes on any five of the following in about 100 words each:
a) Satya and Asteya 4
b) Phenomenon 4
c) Ignorance 4
d) Dialectic method 4
e) Parallelism 4
f) Self 4
g) Subjectivity 4
h) Tabula rasa 4