SECTION A Plato, Meno
1 What role does the theory of recollection play in Socrates’s response to
Meno’s paradox?
2 Why does Socrates reject Meno’s definition of virtue as desiring beautiful
things and having the power to acquire them? Is he right to do so?
3 ‘True opinion is in no way a worse guide to correct action than knowledge.’
Discuss Socrates’s response.
4 Assess Socrates’s criteria for a good definition of virtue.
SECTION B Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
5 How does Hume think that the argument to design differs from scientific
reasoning? Is he right?
6 Explain Hume’s doctrine of natural belief.
7 Does Cleanthes reject Demea’s ‘argument a priori’ too quickly?
8 Either (a) How should we explain Philo’s apparent retraction in Part XII
of the Dialogues?
Or (b) Is Pamphilus right to give the victory to Cleanthes?
SECTION C Mill, On Liberty and The Subjection of Women
9 Does Mill succeed in defending ‘one very simple principle’ to govern
interference with others?
10 Is there a contradiction between Mill’s desire for progress and his prioritisation
of liberty?
11 Critically assess Mill’s arguments for equality between men and women.
12 ‘The principle of freedom cannot require that

should be free not to be free.
It is not freedom to be allowed to alienate freedom’ (MILL). Discuss.