1. ‘It must be possible for the “I think” to accompany all my
representations’ (KANT). Explain and evaluate the role of this claim in
the B-deduction.
2. What is Kant’s central argument in the Second Analogy? How plausible
is it?
3. Kant claims that we are ignorant of things in themselves. Why does he
claim this? Is he right?
4. Kant claims that space is transcendentally ideal. What does he mean
by that? Explain and evaluate his most convincing argument for the
claim.
5. Does the ‘Sense-Certainty’ chapter of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
show that empiricism is misguided?
6. Is Hegel’s response to scepticism in the Phenomenology of Spirit
satisfactory?
7. Is Hegel right in thinking that self-consciousness requires reference to
desire?
8. What is the most defensible account of Hegel’s absolute idealism?
9. Does Nietzsche offer any good reasons why we should adopt the
master morality, rather than the slave morality?
10. Why does Nietzsche insist, in The Birth of Tragedy, that ‘only as an
aesthetic phenomenon are existence and the world justified’? Evaluate
this claim.
11. ‘On the Genealogy of Morality is a study in history, psychology, and
even physiology. A work of philosophy it is not.’ Discuss.
12. ‘There are absolutely no moral phenomena, only a moral interpretation
of the phenomena…’ (NIETZSCHE, Beyond Good and Evil). Discuss.