Essays of various quality
The best way to categorise these is by when they were written, since
to be honest the naivete of some of my first year essays makes me
cringe. Be warned...
First year
- What does Descartes mean by a "clear and distinct" idea, and is
his argument plagued by circularity?
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- "Justice for each individual is often rejected by
utilitarianism." Discuss. PostScript HTML
- Are there such things as 'Forms' PostScript HTML
- "The curious adapting of means to ends, throughout all nature,
resembles exactly... the productions of human contrivance." What is
the significance of this claim, according to Cleanthes? Is he
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- "The morals operating on one society have no relevance to those
in another." Discuss. PostScript HTML
- What is "eliminative materialism"? What difficulties does it
face? Are they insuperable? PostScript HTML
Second year
- What, if anything, is the difference between asserting a
proposition and asserting that it is true? What does the answer to
this question reveal about the concept of truth? PostScript HTML
- Are miracles impossible? PostScript
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- Psychologists assume there must be "memory traces". Are they
right to do so? PostScript HTML
- Discuss the merits and demerits of Rawls' incorporation of a
'veil of ignorance' into his account of the 'original position.' PostScript HTML
- Does Hobbes show that the return to the State of Nature is to
be avoided at all costs? PostScript HTML
- Is there a proof of God's existence? Is the God so proved the
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- Is there a convincing form of natural theology? PostScript HTML
- "Morality is the refuge of the weak." Discuss. PostScript HTML
Third year
- How can something change and remain
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- Kant claims that the spatio-temporal world is empirically real
but transcendentally ideal. What does he mean by this? PostScript HTML
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