1 Either (a) ‘Transcendental idealism is the price one has to pay for
transcendental arguments.’ Discuss.
Or (b) What is Kant’s best argument for the thesis that things
in themselves are not spatio-temporal? Is that argument sound?
2 What, if anything, is refuted by Kant’s Refutation of Idealism?
3 Does Kant succeed in justifying the claim that the categories possess
‘objective validity’?
4 Critically assess the account of freedom offered by Kant in the
Antinomies.
5 How close did Hegel come to saying that the emergence of his own
philosophy was the ultimate purpose of reality?
6 Assess Hegel’s assessment of the philosophy of Kant.
7 Either (a) ‘Hegel’s argument in the Sense-Certainty chapter in the
Phenomenology of Spirit is undermined by the elementary conflation of
a universal with a complex particular.’ Is it?
Or (b) Exactly what, in Hegel’s view, does the Sense-Certainty
chapter show to be impossible?
8 Critically examine Hegel’s account of the Master-Slave Dialectic.
9 Is Nietzsche’s account of the ascetic ideal able to bear the explanatory
weight he wishes?
10 ‘Nietzsche’s critique of morality can only lead to nihilism.’
Discuss.
11 Does Nietzsche have a coherent account of the relation between
individual morality and the values instantiated in cultures?
12 Is Nietzsche right to think that there can be no Christian tragedy?
Does it matter?