This is the November 2023 final exam for the course; Great Philosophers PHI2041S. I have retyped the exam in its exact format and wording so that it is in an editable format for your convenience (and because my original script is full of personal annotations)
PHI2041S (November 2023)
Great Philosophers
(3 hours; 100 Marks)
Answer all three sections, carefully following the instructions in each section.
Make sure you apportion the time spent on each question to the number of marks it is worth.
I. Section One: Short Answers (15 marks)
Answer ALL FIVE of the following questions:
(1) In Stoic epistemology, what is a ‘kataleptic impression’? [2]
(2) In Epicurean metaphysics, where are the gods and what is their relation to humans? [2]
(3) In Plato’s Republic, what are the three main classes of citizen called? [3]
(4) In Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, what is the ‘doctrine of the mean’?
Give one example of it. [4]
(5) In Plato’s Meno, Socrates considers the idea that learning is recollection. What does this
mean? Name one problem with it.
[4]
II. Section Two: Long Paragraph Answers (15 marks)
Answer ALL THREE of the following questions:
(1) In Plato’s Republic, what are the three parts of the soul? How are they properly related to
each other?
[5]
(2) In Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle lists the distinct functions of plants, lower
animals, and humans. What are they? Specify one problem with his conception of the human
function?
[5]
(3) In Stoic physics, ‘nature’ has many properties. List three of them. Outline a problem with one
of them. [5]
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