Code and Name of Course: PH19C [PHIL1903] GREEK PHILOSOPHY

Date and Time: Duration: 2 Hours

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES: This paper has 1 page and 8 questions.

Give reasoned answers to two of the following questions, taking one from each section of the paper:

1. Explain the "Third Man" argument about the Forms. Can it be evaded, while preserving what Plato wants Forms to do?

2. Take one of Plato's arguments for the immortality of the soul and show whether it is defensible.

3. Is it fair to say that, given Plato's ideas about the division of labour, some people – the rulers - ought to specialise in justice in the same way as others specialise in farming?

4. Can Socrates consistently ask questions about X while denying that he knows what X is?

5. "In the Categories, individual men are among the primary substances, but elsewhere Aristotle thinks of them as composites of form and matter." Explain Aristotle's thoughts about primary and secondary substances in the Categories, and what led him to the more complicated view.

6. If you think that the soul is the form of a living body, is there any scope for supposing that it might in some respect be immortal?

7. Suppose it is now true that there will be a sea battle tomorrow. Can Aristotle avoid thinking that it is now necessary and inevitable that there will be a sea battle?

8. Does Aristotle's perspective require him to think that in some important sense there is one good for humankind?

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