1. EITHER: (a) Present one of Kant’s arguments for Transcendental
Idealism. Does it succeed?
OR: (b) ‘The apodeictic certainty of all geometrical propositions, and the
possibility of their a priori construction, is grounded in the a priori necessity
of space’ (KANT). Do you agree?
2. ‘The principle [of the Analogies of Experience] is: experience is possible
only through the representation of a necessary connection of perceptions’
(KANT). Discuss in relation to one of the Analogies of Experience.
3. Does Kant show that the existence of objects in space outside me is a
condition of the possibility of my being conscious of my existence as
determined in time?
4. Is Kant’s attack on rational psychology successful?
5. Is Hegel a realist?
6. ‘Hegel’s so-called “dialectical method” is too haphazard to warrant the title
of a “methodology”.’ Discuss.
7. Can we have ‘knowledge of the immediate or of what simply is’? (HEGEL)
8. EITHER: (a) Who does Hegel think wins the struggle between master and
slave? Is he right?
OR: (b) To view freedom as the ability to ‘do whatever one pleases’ is a
product of ‘completely uneducated, crude, superficial thinking’ (HEGEL).
Discuss.
9. What good, if any, could come from a ‘slave revolution in values’?
10. EITHER: (a) Can genealogy be philosophical?
OR: (b) ‘Psychology is again the path to the fundamental problems’
(NIETZSCHE). Do you agree?
11. ‘There is no such thing as pessimistic art – Art affirms’ (NIETZSCHE). Is
Nietzsche right?
12. Is Nietzsche’s perspectivism true?