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Question: TMA02 Part 4 Philosophy 86%

Answer these questions in not more than 300 words in total.

1. Here are some claims. If possible, give a sound argument for each claim. Where this is not possible, give a valid argument anyway. Do indicate those cases where you believe your argument is sound.

A.) The Queen is a mother B.) The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain
C.) The earth is flat. D.) Eating people is wrong.
E.) Oranges are not the only fruit.

Answer: All women who give birth are mothers. The Queen has given birth. The Queen is a mother. Rain clouds can only form...

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Question: A) Discuss the relationship between individual freedom and social responsibility as represented in The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

B) How far is it appropriate to bear the same concepts in mind when considering Jacques-Louis David’s Brutus and Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer above the Sea of Fog?

Answer: The Social Contract was at its time and still remains an extremely controversial text, as were most of Rousseau’s writings. Primarily he...

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Question: Analyse the various modern movements in Contempory continental philosophy.

Answer: Continental philosophy is an inclusive term used to describe several related philosophical traditions that notionally originated in continental Europe. The emergence of...

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Question: A211 Philosophy and the human situation

Explain Isaiah Berlin’s distinction between negative and positive liberty using your own examples.

Answer: Berlin’s major arguments on negative freedom mark out the acceptable parameters on the interference in the lives of people. “You restrict my...

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Question: Are human beings free to choose as they will?

Answer: Is man free in the sense that he has some power to choose between two given alternatives? Or is his every act...

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Question: (Phd Philosophy) Thesis title: Synchronisation in Concurrent, Object-oriented Languages: Expressive Power, Genericity and Inheritance

Answer: This thesis concerns itself with the topic of synchronisation in concurrent, object-oriented languages, (COOPL's) and makes contributions in three areas. The Sos...

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Question: Natural Law and Enlightenment in France and Scotland. A comparative perspective.

Answer: One of the predominant theories in political and social philosophy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries can arguably be identified in the...

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Question: Does Leibniz Have One View Of Causation Or Several?

Answer: Gottfried Leibniz (July 1646 – November 1716) was one of the greatest mathematicians of the modern world. As an engineer he worked...

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Question: Would Aristotle have found anything of value in a seaside holiday?

Answer: Aristotle’s views were quite definite and he made strong conclusions. He said that ‘An excellent human is someone who excels at rational...

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Question: Immanuel Kant: Study

Answer: Born in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia), April 22, 1724, Kant received his education at the Collegium Fredericianum and the University of Königsberg...

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