1 Either (a) Can Kant’s philosophy allow for the possibility of nonconceptual content? Should it?
Or (b) ‘The key to Kant’s response to Hume is the Critique’s
use of transcendental arguments.’ Discuss.
2 Critically assess Kant’s conception of either logic or imagination.
3 Why does Kant hold that space and time are ‘ideal’? What are the
philosophical advantages, if any, of doing so?
4 ‘Kant cannot coherently make any claims about things in themselves.’
Discuss.
5 In what sense is Hegel an idealist? Is that sense incompatible with
realism?
6 What, if anything, can we learn from Hegel’s claim that ‘selfconsciousness finds its satisfaction only in another selfconsciousness’?
7 What would Hegel think is wrong with modern epistemology? Would
he be right?
8 Either (a) ‘Nietzsche’s attack on the ascetic ideal has no
relevance for contemporary Western society.’ Discuss.
Or (b) ‘Nietzsche’s Genealogy is fatally undermined by its lack
of attention to economics.’ Discuss.
9 Why, according to Nietzsche, did the slave revolt succeed? How
plausible is his theory?
10 What implications, if any, do Nietzsche’s arguments in the Birth of
Tragedy have for contemporary artistic practice?
11 ‘Kant’s conception of the self is a historically contingent phenomenon.’
Discuss with reference to either Hegel or Nietzsche.
12 ‘It has gradually become clear what every great philosophy up till now
has consisted in — namely unconscious autobiography.’ Discuss with
reference to any two authors on the syllabus.