1. Do non-Euclidean geometries refute Kant’s doctrine of space?
2. Is Kant right to hold that Reason prescribes laws to nature?
3. Is Kant successful in showing that the subjective conditions of thought
have objective validity?
4. What conclusions should we draw from Kant’s discussion of freedom in
the Antinomies?
5. EITHER: a) Is Hegel a metaphysician?
OR: b) Are Hegel’s arguments against ‘immediacy’ in epistemology
convincing?
6. Is Hegel’s concept ‘spirit’ of any continuing philosophical significance,
and if it is, of what significance?
7. Does Hegel have any good arguments against those who might think
that self-preservation is the fundamental purpose of human life?
8. Is Hegel right to think that his philosophy is the ultimate solution to the
problem of theodicy?
9. Is Nietzsche right to hold that society would be boring without priests?
10.If Nietzsche’s genealogy is not an instance of the ‘genetic fallacy’, how
is it best understood?
11.If Nietzsche is right about the role of the ascetic ideal in modern
conceptions of ‘science’, should we close all laboratories?
12.EITHER: a) Has there been any play (or opera) since the Renaissance
that is a ‘tragedy’ in Nietzsche’s sense?
OR: b) Is Nietzsche right to think that ‘philosophy’ is essentially a
comic, not a tragic genre?