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IGNOU MPY-02 (July 2024 – January 2025) Assignment Questions
1. Discuss and evaluate Whitehead’s conception of God.
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What is the idea of tabula rasa? How do Dewey and James reject the spectator theory of knowledge?
2. Write a note on the notion of causality. How does David Hume challenge the notion of causality?
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Compare Socrates’, Marx’s and Hegel’s dialectic method.
3. Answer any two questions in about 250 words each.
a) Write a note on the sense-reference problem in the light of Frege’s philosophy.
b) What is the theory of Innate Ideas? What are the objections raised by Locke against this theory?
c) Write an essay on the Don Scotus’s conception of God.
d) What is pure phenomenology? Explain..
4. Answer any four questions in about 150 words each.
a) What are the arguments provided by St. Augustine to prove the existence of God?
b) Write a short essay on Private-Language Argument of Wittgenstein..
c) Examine the thesis that ‘Man is the measure of all things’.
d) Write a note on the concept of time and space in Kant’s philosophy
e) Examine Russell’s distinction between knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description.
f) Compare Socratic’s and Scholastic’s method.
5. Write short notes on any five in about 100 words each.
a) Hermeneutics
b) Pre-established harmony
c) The idea of ‘Actuality’ in Aristotle’s philosophy
d) Black Feminism
e) Cogito Ergo Sum
f) Correspondence theory of truth
g) Nominalism
h) Realism
IGNOU MPY-02 (December 2023 – June 2024) Assignment Questions
1. Discuss and evaluate Whitehead’s conception of God.
Or
Discuss and evaluate the spectator theory of knowledge?
2. Discuss arguments to prove the existence of God given by Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas.
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Compare Socratic dialectic method with Hegel’s dialectic method.
3. Answer any two questions in about 250 words each.
a) Do you agree that there is some common underline theme present in Early and later Wittgenstein? Give arguments to support your answer.
b) Discuss Anti-Cartesian foundation of Pragmatism.
c) What is pure phenomenology? Explain.
d) Discuss the significance of Frege’s sense-reference theory.
4. Answer any four questions in about 150 words each.
a) How Nietzsche uses “Death of God.” metaphor to explain the cultural transformation of his time?
b) What is the idea of tabula rasa?
c) Discuss some of the general characteristics of existentialism.
d) Explain Marx’s view of historical materialism.
e) Discuss Russell’s distinction between knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description.
f) Critically evaluate the Picture theory of Wittgenstein.
5. Write short notes on any five in about 100 words each.
a) Epoche
b) Alienation
c) Language game
d) Second wave of feminism
e) Linguistic Turn
f) Hermeneutics
g) Family resemblance
h) Pre-established harmony
