Reporter 21/6/00: Philosophy Tripos, 2002: Prescribed texts and subjects

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Philosophy Tripos, 2002: Prescribed texts and subjects

The Faculty Board of Philosophy have prescribed the following texts and subjects for the Philosophy Tripos, 2002:

Part Ia

Paper 4. Set text or texts

Plato, Meno; Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion; J. S. Mill, On Liberty.

Part Ib

Paper 4. Ethics

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics.

Paper 5. Set texts

Section A Plato, The Republic, Books II-IX. Section B Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics. Section C Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling.

Part II

Paper 2. Ethics

Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals.

Questions marked with an asterisk may not be answered by candidates offering Paper 9.

Paper 3. History of Modern Philosophy I

Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy; Spinoza, Ethics; Leibniz, Discourse on Metaphysics and Monadology; Locke, Essay concerning Human Understanding; Berkeley, Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous and The Principles of Human Knowledge; Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I (and Appendix).

Paper 4. History of Modern Philosophy II

Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason to the end of the Transcendental Dialectic (A704, B732); Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit (transl. by A. V. Miller, Clarendon), Introduction, Consciousness, Self-consciousness (paragraphs 73-230); Hegel's Logic: being part of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences (transl. by W. Wallace), paragraphs 1-111; Introduction to Lectures on the Philosophy of History, as far as (but not including) The Geographical Basis of World History; Nietzsche, On Genealogy of Morality, The Gay Science, The Birth of Tragedy, Beyond Good and Evil; Heidegger, Being and Time.

Questions marked with an asterisk may not be answered by candidates offering Paper 9.

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.

Paper 9. Special subject specified by the Faculty Board

Kant

Section A Metaphysics and Epistemology: Kant, Critique of Pure Reason. Section B Ethics and Aesthetics: Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals; Critique of Practical Reason; Critique of Judgement (to the end of Section 60).

Candidates taking this paper are barred from answering questions on topics or texts marked with an asterisk in Papers 2 and 4 in Part II.

Paper 11. Aesthetics

Plato, Ion, Symposium, and Republic (Books II, III, X); Hume, 'On the Standard of Taste' (originally in Hume's Essays, Moral, Political and Literary but now widely available in a variety of forms, e.g. reprinted in The Philosophy of Art, ed. Neill & Ridley, McGraw-Hill 1995); Hegel, Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics, ed. M. Inwood (Penguin 1993).

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