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IGNOU MPYE-10 (July 2024 – January 2025) Assignment Questions
1. Explain and evaluate Ramanuja’s objections against Shankar’s Advaita Vedanta.
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Compare Buddhist and Jain idea of Liberation.
2. What are the three modes of understanding the religious language? Explain.
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What is Philosophy of religion? Compare scientific and religious explanation of the Universe.
3. Answer any two questions in about 250 words each.
a) Write a note on the problem of evil.
b) What are the socio-cultural roots of modern atheism? Explain.
c) Compare St. Augustine’s and John Hick’s theodicy.
d) Does Deism successfully relate God and His creation in its philosophy? Examine.
4. Answer any four questions in about 150 words each.
a) Write a note on the philosophical implications of the idea of rituals.
b) Differentiate between weak and strong agnosticism.
c) What is neurotheology? Explain.
d) Differentiate between Idealistic Theism and Pragmatic Theism.
e) What is the idea of unmoved mover?
f) What is free-will? Write a note on the free-will argument.
5. Write a short note on any five in about 100 words.
a) Henotheism
b) Verification Principle
c) Understanding of ‘History’ in Marx’s Philosophy
d) Numinous
e) Process Theodicy
f) The eternal return
g) Analogy of proportionality
h) Cosmological Argument of Anselm
IGNOU MPYE-10 (December 2023 – June 2024) Assignment Questions
1. What is free will? Discuss the free-will argument in favor of the concept of Evil.
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What is tolerance? Discuss the role of tolerance in a society. Give some philosophical arguments in favor of tolerance.
2. Discuss and evaluate the idea of Dialectical Materialism.
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What are the Ontological and causal arguments to prove the existence of God? Explain the failure of Ontological and Causal arguments in proving the existence of God in the Kantian Perspective.
3. Answer any two questions in about 250 words each.
a) Does Deism successfully relate God and His creation in its philosophy? Examine.
b) Compare scientific and religious explanation of the Universe.
c) Write a note on the significance of myth in religious language.
d) Differentiate between Religion, Theology and Philosophy of religion?
4. Answer any four questions in about 150 words each.
a) What is the idea of Numinous?
b) What is the idea of unmoved mover?
c) What do you understand by the concept of sacred?
d) Why do human beings enter into a relationship with sacred things?
e) ‘Religious statements are moral in content.’ Discuss.
f) What is the idea of Illud Tempus?
5. Write a short note on any five in about 100 words.
a) Regenerative experience
b) Liturgy
c) Strong version of agnosticism.
d) Augutine’s idea of God
e) analogy of proportionality
f) Ritual
g) Henotheism
h) Atheism