Reporter 21/6/00: Philosophy Tripos, 2001: Amendments to prescribed texts and subjects

Philosophy Tripos, 2001: Amendments to prescribed texts and subjects

The Faculty Board of Philosophy announce the following changes to the prescribed texts and subjects for the Philosophy Tripos, 2001 (Reporter, 1998-99, p. 745). The Faculty Board are satisfied that no candidate's preparation for the examination in 2001 is adversely affected by these amendments.

Part Ib

Paper 4. Ethics

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, with special reference to the following topics: The analysis of moral virtue and the distinction between virtue and continence (encrateia); moral character and responsibility; the nature of practical wisdom and the inter-dependence of practical wisdom and moral virtue.

Paper 5. Set texts

Section B Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics.

Questions will be set on the following topics:

Happiness (eudaimonia): the analysis of happiness (I, 1-7); happiness and fortune (I, 8-11); practical and intellectualist conceptions (X, 7-8).

Justice as a virtue (V).

Acrasia (VII, 1-10).

Friendship: the varieties of friendship; self-love and egoism (VIII, 1-5; IX 4, 7-9).

Part II

Paper 5. History of Ancient Philosophy

Plato, Phaedo; Aristotle, Physics II; Lucretius, On the Nature of Things, III 417-1094 and Epicurean texts as found in A. A. Long and D. N. Sedley eds. The Hellenistic Philosophers, vol. I, Cambridge University Press 1987, sections 13, 14, 21, 23, 24, and 25.

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