Comprehensive Written Model

1. Critically analyze the relevance and inter-relation between Virtue ethics, Deontological ethics
and Utilitarian ethics.
2. Metaphysics is the science of Being (being as being). Every finite being is composed of Being
(esse) and essence (essentia). Essence is composed of substance and accidents. Corporeal
substance is composed of prime matter and substantial form. Prime matter is in potency, whereas
substantial form is in act.
3. Explain the three major arguments for the existence of God, the cosmological, the teleological
and the ontological, of which only the last is entirely a priori, whereas the former two are a
posteriori.
4. Write an Essay on the relationship between Epistemology and Metaphysics in the history of
philosophy
5. What is transcendental idealism? Does Kant’s transcendental idealism solve any of the
epistemological problems of Hume’s system?
6. What is the difference between Husserl’s and Heidegger’s understanding of phenomenology?
7. Are you both a person and an animal? If so, are there two things sitting in your
chair?
8. Do all versions of the ontological argument require that ‘exists’ be a
genuine predicate?
9. If no ethical proposition is true, is normative ethics pointless? Does virtue ethics explain
anything?
10. Explain the following: Intellectual Soul is the substantial form of a human person. The
powers of the soul are different from the Soul. The specification of the powers of the Soul.
The subject of the powers of the soul. The nature and differences of two immaterial powers
of the soul: intellect and will: The origin and duration of the human soul.
11. Explain the picture theory of meaning according to Wittgenstein