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CSS 2024 Philosophy Past Paper
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Paper details
- Examination
- CSS
- Year
- 2024
- Subject
- Philosophy
- Paper
- Single Paper
- Subject type
- Optional
- Mode
- Subjective
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Questions recorded from this paper
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- Q4 · Philosophical MethodsExpose the weaknesses of Rene Descartes’s cogito argument. Outline the (20) influence of cogito on later modern philosophy.
- Q7 · Philosophical Methods“World history is the unfolding of the spirit in time”, says Hegel. Explain it in (20) detail while contrasting with Kant’s philosophy.
- Q3 · on religion? Psychological and ethical egoism: Virtue Ethics (Aristotle)Aristotle’s concept of ‘eudemonia’ is better than the modern consequential and (20) deontological theories. Discuss it with reference to recent ethical challenges
- Q8 · Ethics: What is morality? The challenge of cultural relativism; Does morality dependWrite short notes on any two of the followings: (10 each) (20) (a) ‘Ought’ implies ‘Can’ (b) Reason and revelation in Averroes (c) Limits of Rawls’ ‘difference principle’
- Q2 · Muslim Thinkers: Al-Farabi, Ibn Sina, Al-Ghazali, Ibn Rushid, Ibn Khaldun, ShahOutline al-Ghazali’s journey from al-kalam methods to philosophy and then to (20) mysticism in the wider background of his recognition of limits of reason.
- Q6 · Existentialism (Heidegger, Sartre)“Bad faith is a permanent risk for consciousness”, says Sartre. Critically assess (20) this statement in the wider thought of Sartre.
- Q5 · Contemporary Philosophical MovementsCritically analyze how is Michel Foucault’s ‘knowledge/power’ is different to (20) common impression ‘knowledge is power’.