BPYC 134 Western Philosophy: Modern

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IGNOU BPYC-134 (January 2025 – July 2025) Assignment Questions
1. 1. Write a brief essay outlining the key ideas of contemporary Western philosophy.
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What is Kant’s view on the Nature of Knowledge? Explain and analyze.
2. Explain and analyze Descartes’ method of doubt.
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How does Descartes prove the existence of the External world?
3. Answer any two of the following questions in about 200 words each.
a) Explain the idea of causality? How does Hume criticize the idea of causation?
b) Contrast Descartes’ and Locke’s conceptions of substance with Spinoza’s.
c) What are Innate Ideas? How Locke criticizes the concept of innate ideas?
d) Explain Pre-established harmony. Discuss its significance in Leibniz’s philosophy.
4. Answer any four of the following questions in about 150 words each.
a) Distinguish between primary and secondary qualities of Locke.
b) Write a note on Berkley’s refutation of materialism.
c) “Thoughts without content are empty and intuitions without concepts are blind.” Explain this dictum of Kant.
d) Discuss Spinoza’s idea of God.
e) Write a note on the mind-body dualism of Descartes.
f) Write a short note on Enlightenment.
5. Write short notes on any five of the following in about 100 words each.
a) Alienated Labour
b) Locke’s representative theory of perception.
c) Synthetic A-priori and Analytic A-priori
d) Leibniz’s principle of sufficient reason
e) Descartes’s Scientific Method
f) Cogito, ergo sum
g) Hegel’s idea of Absolute Truth
h) Meaning of transcendental for Kant

IGNOU BPYC-134 (July 2023 – January 2024) Assignment Questions
1. Write a note on the salient features of Modern western philosophy.
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What is Kant’s view on the Nature of Knowledge? Explain and analyze.

2. Explain and analyze Descartes mind-body dualism.
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How does Descartes prove the existence of the External world?

3. Answer any two of the following questions in about 200 words each.

a) What is the idea of causality? How does Hume criticize the idea of causation?
b) Compare Spinoza’s idea of Substance with Descartes’ and Locke’s idea of Substance.
c) What are Innate Ideas? How Locke criticizes the concept of innate ideas?
d) Explain briefly the significance of Pre-established harmony in Leibniz’s philosophy.

4. Answer any four of the following questions in about 150 words each.

a) How does Locke distinguish between intuitive and demonstrative knowledge?
b) Examine Berkley’s refutation of materialism.
c) “Thoughts without content are empty and intuitions without concepts are blind.” Explain this dictum of Kant.
d) How does Spinoza prove that God is the only independent substance?
e) Write a note on the idea of pre-established harmony.
f) Write a short note on the Locke’s representative theory of perception.

5. Write short notes on any five of the following in about 100 words each.

a) Alienated Labour
b) Enlightenment
c) Synthetic A-priori and Analytic A-priori
d) Tabula rasa
e) Descartes’s Scientific Method
f) Cogito, ergo sum
g) Hegel’s idea of Absolute Truth
h) The Intellectual love for God

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