Phil 104B Spring 2020 Final Exam: Due by the end of the day on Thursday, May 28. Pick two prompts from the list below. Then write a 2-3 page essay (approximately 600-1000 words) in response to each of the prompts you chose. Be sure to identify which prompt you are responding to. Over the course of your two essays, be sure to discuss at least three of the following philosophers: Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Frege, Russell, de Beauvoir. Your answers should be typed and double-spaced in a 12 point legible font and emailed to me at iduckles@sdccd.edu. I can accept documents in the following formats: .pdf, .doc, .docx, or a shared Google doc. Each essay is worth 50 points.
I will be available to answer questions about the exam during our regularly scheduled class periods on May 26 and May 28. Just log on to Zoom using the link you normally use for class. If you do not have any questions about the exam, you do not need to attend class on those days. I am also available to answer questions during my regularly scheduled office hours and over email.
Prompts (select two): Compare and contrast Kierkegaard and Nietzsche on the role of aesthetics in an authentic life. Pick three philosophers from the following list and compare and contrast their interpretations of the master/slave dialectic: Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, de Beauvoir. One important feature of Post-Kantian thought is the focus on history. Pick two authors we studied and compare and contrast the way they use history to explore important philosophical questions. Compare and contrast the analytical approach to philosophy used by Frege and Russell to the continental approach used by the other philosophers we studied this unit. In your answer be sure to explain the analytic tradition and how your two chosen thinkers differ from it. Explain how both Marx and Kierkegaard were influenced by Hegel and how they were influenced differently.
Phil 104B Spring 2020 Exam 2: Due by the end of the day on Thursday, April 23. You will pick one prompt from section A and one prompt from Section B. You will then write a 2-3 page essay (approximately 600-1000 words) in response to each of the prompts you chose. Be sure to identify which prompt you are responding to. Your answers should be typed and double-spaced in a 12 point legible font and emailed to me at iduckles@sdccd.edu. I can accept documents in the following formats: .pdf, .doc, .docx, or a shared Google doc. Each essay is worth 50 points.
I will be available to answer questions about the exam during our regularly scheduled class periods on April 21 and April 23. Just log on to Zoom using the link you normally use for class. If you do not have any questions about the exam, you do not need to attend class on those days. I am also available to answer questions during my regularly scheduled office hours and over email. Section A: Pick one prompt from the following list and write a 2-3 page essay (approximately 600-1000 words) in response. - According to Hobbes, what role does reason play in morality? How does Kant differ?
- Give two examples of ideas that Kant and Hegel wrote in critique of previous thinkers. Be sure to explain those ideas and explain how Kant and Hegel responded.
- How does René Descartes’ Cogito differ from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s Dialectic?
- How did Hume influence Kant’s thoughts on causality? How does Kant respond to Hume’s account of causality? In your answer be sure to explain Hume’s account of causality.
- Explain Kant’s reasoning when he says rational faith requires the denial of knowledge of God and compare this to Descartes’ reasoning for God’s existence. Who do you agree with and why?
- According to Hume, moral judgements are not objective but are based on how an individual feels about an action. When we say x is wrong, we mean we do not like x. How does Kant refute Hume’s ethics with his concept of good will and the sense of duty and sever the relationship between morality and our own happiness?
- Choose Immanuel Kant or Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and answer this question: how might they respond to George Berkeley’s statement ‘esse is percipi’?
Section B: Pick one prompt from the following list and write a 2-3 page essay (approximately 600-1000 words) in response. - How does Kant influence the structure of Hegel’s thoughts on reason and reasoning?
- Why does Hegel dismiss Kant's noumenal realm?
- What is Hegel’s criticism of Kant? How does Hegel answer this criticism? In your opinion, how effective is Hegel's theory of phenomenology in answering this criticism of Kant?
- Compare and contrast what Hegel and Kant think are the biggest hurdles for exploring consciousness.
- Identify two ways in which Kant’s transcendental idealism and Hegel’s absolute idealism are similar and two ways that they are different.
- Compare and contrast Kant's and Hegel’s thoughts on freedom.
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