Western Philosophy:Descartes to Kant — DU B.A. (Hons.) Philosophy Previous Year Question Papers
- Programme
- B.A. (Hons.) Philosophy
- Paper type
- DSC
- Paper code
- 2102102302
- Exam years
- 2020–2025
Western Philosophy:Descartes to Kant is a DSC paper in Semester III of B.A. (Hons.) Philosophy at Delhi University (paper code 2102102302). 7 previous year question papers from 2020–2025 are listed below; view or download each original PDF.
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1. What are the major issues that shape the debate between empiricism and rationalism? Explain the central points where the two positions disagree.
2. What is rationalism in modern philosophy? Discuss its core features and the assumptions on which this approach rests.
3. Explain Descartes' Methodic Doubt and how does he establish his own existence as a thinking thing?
4. What does Spinoza mean by claiming that God is the immanent cause of all things? Discuss.
5. Explain Leibniz's theory of Monads.
6. Examine Locke's arguments against innate principles.
7. Is Philonus able to establish that there is no such thing as 'material substance' by the end of the First
8. How does Hume distinguish between ideas and impressions? What are the sceptical implications of this distinction in his philosophy?
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- Western Philosophy:Descartes to Kant is a DSC paper in Semester III of B.A. (Hons.) Philosophy, according to DU's published scheme.