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V.-MORAL PHILOSOPHY.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Explain the place assigned to Justice by Aristotle in his scheme of the Virtues. To what extent, or

in what sense, does he hold that Justice implies equality?

2. Consider the reasons given by Aristotle for holding that the highest welfare consists in the speculative life.

3. "Actions are completely right only when, besides being conducive to future happiness, special and general, they are immediately pleasurable." Explain and discuss Spencer's reasons for this conclusion.

4. Examine Spencer's reasons for believing that we are approaching to a complete conciliation between egoism and altruism.

5. Can morality be shown to be evolved from simpler elements? Give your reasons.

6. On what grounds does Green assert that the human organism becomes the vehicle of an eternally complete consciousness? And how does he connect this doctrine with the question of moral freedom? Add any comments.

7. Show the practical value of an adequate theory of the moral ideal.

VI.-HISTORY OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Is the Ontological argument of Descartes offered as an independent proof, or is it founded on any other of his proofs ? Give reasons for your

answer.

2. It has been said that the system of Spinoza is “the truth and completion of that of Descartes." Consider the meaning and accuracy of this

statement.

3. Compare the attitude of Locke towards innate principles with that of Descartes.

4. State briefly Leibniz's doctrine of monads. How did he seek to reconcile his conception of monads with our knowledge of space and extended things?

5. Explain the meaning in which Berkeley used the word "idea," as applicable to material things. On what ground did he hold that there can be no "idea" of a Soul or subject?

6. Consider Hume's theory of Belief, and the use which he makes of it in his Solution of Sceptical Doubts.

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7. "All our distinct perceptions are distinct existences. "Simple apprehension is performed by resolving and analysing a natural and original

judgment." Consider the significance of these statements, referring them to different writers or different schools.

8. Show briefly the connection of the problem of the Critique of Pure Reason with the dogmatic philosophy which preceded it.

VIA. HISTORY OF ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY. The Board of Examiners.

1. "The beginnings of science and metaphysics are identical, though there is a sense in which it may be admitted that the metaphysical_comes before the scientific or positive era." Illustrate this

statement by reference to the earlier efforts of the philosophy of Greece.

2. State the leading characteristics of the Eleatic philosophy, mentioning similar tendencies which have

been developed in the course of modern specula

tion.

3. Point out the relations of the Sophists to the philosophers who preceded them.

4. On what grounds has Plato been described as the completed Socratic?

5. Compare the Aristotelian account of Cause with he conception of causation required by modern science.

6. It has been said that the morality of ancient Greece subordinated the individual to the State, instead of subordinating the State to the welfare of the individuals composing it. Discuss this statement with special reference to the ethical ideals of Plato and Aristotle.

7. Write a short essay on the Stoic Materialism.

8. Mention any causes which led to the continued dependence of the Epicurean school on its founder.

SCHOOL OF NATURAL SCIENCE.

CHEMISTRY.

FIRST PAPER.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Give an account of "the platinum metals.”

2. Describe the preparation and properties of each of the following:-(1) hydroxylamine, (2) hydrazine, (3) hydrazoic acid.

3. Describe the recent advances made in the study of the oxides of phosphorus.

4. Discuss the action of sulphuric acid on zinc under various conditions as to strength of acid, purity of metal, temperature, &c.

5. Give an account of the ammonia process for the manufacture of alkali.

6. Discuss the characteristics of dissociation, and illustrate your remarks by reference to actual

cases.

CHEMISTRY.

SECOND PAPER.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Write a paper on "physical properties of organic compounds in relation to their chemical consti

tution."

2. Write a paper on "closed chains composed of carbon and a second element."

3. Give an account of the methyl arsenic compounds.

4. Describe the general modes of formation and reactions of the ketones.

5. Discuss the theory of the constitution of naphthalene and its derivatives.

6. Give an account of the fulminates.

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