BPYE-141 EM 2025 SOLVED ASSIGNMENT

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Assignments for TEE June 2025 and TEE December 2025
Programme: BAG Philosophy
Course: Metaphysics, Course code: BPYE-141
ENG MED
1. How do the speculative, dialectic, retortive, inductive, and deductive methods contribute to
metaphysical inquiry, and how do they compare to scientific reasoning?
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Explain and critically examine
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Philosophy.
2. How did Aquinas synthesize Platonic participation and Aristotelian potency-act theory in
metaphysics?
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Write a note on the problem of universal? What are the impediments of universal
according to Nyaya-Vaisesika philosophy?
3. Answer any two of the following questions in about 200 words each.
a) How does Aristotle’s concept of causation influence later philosophical thought?
b) Write an essay on the problem of appearance and reality in K nt’s philosophy.
c) On what grounds Buddhism distinguished between universal and particular?
d) What is metaphysics and how does it study realities beyond the physical world?
4. Answer any four of the following questions in about 150 words each.
a) W t does Heidegger me n b ‘being-towards-de t ’ in t e context of
Dasein’s existence?
b) Why is immortality considered a unique characteristic of human beings?
c) Describe the Idea of Individuation in John Duns cotus’ Philosophy.
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d) Critically evaluate the idea of . 5
e) Discuss the philosophical implications of the Allegory of cave with respect to the
problem of Appearance and Reality. 5
f) Do you think Accidents have their own ‘to be’? Justif your answer. 5
5. Write short notes on any five of the following in about 100 words each. 5*4= 20
a) Transcendence 4
b) Chaos Theory 4
c) Speculative method 4
d) 4
e) Concept 4
f) 4
g) 4
h) Free will