Philosophy - Admission/Application Essay Example

Question & Answers Q1. Ans: D. At no time had God not made anything, because time itself God made. St. Augustine depicts that God is the creator of everything including time. God is timeless and thus time did not exist before the creation of heaven and earth. However, there was eternity. Q2.Ans: C. Since God is eternal; He made no new decision to create the heavens and the earth. St. Augustine talks about the two Cities which reflect on Heaven and earth. He introduces the concept of eternity where man will enjoy eternity just as God is in Heaven.Q3.Ans: A.

our ideas reach farther than our experience. Thus, we have great experience with divine attributes and operations. David Hume talks about understanding the nature of God. He emphasizes that the empiric nature of man confines him to the belief that knowledge is derived from experience. However, human beings think farther than their experiences, for instance, questioning the existence of God. Q4.Ans: A. Principle of retarded action. Mario Bunge compares the scenario in an electromagnet to that of cause and effect.

Cause is termed as ‘A’ while effect as ‘B’. In this case, ‘A’ appears later than ‘B’.Q5.Ans: C. Since B always follows A in time, it is A that causes B, so therefore we have discovered the natural law of causation. In the study of indirect and direct causality, A and B are connected as ‘B’ is caused by ‘A’. This principle is referred to as the law of causation. Q6.Ans. C. It is the sole form of reality. Schopenhauer uses the perception of will and desire to explain reality.

In his context, man can only do as he or she please but cannot will his or her wants. Q7. Ans. C. Fallacy of composition. Hume uses a comparative logic between the argument of Demea and Philo with that of Cleanthes. Cleanthes attributes the evidence of God’s existence to nature and human intelligence while Demea and Philo link the existence of God to recurrent experiences of the phenomena. Hume uses the concept of experiences to explain the whole evidence of God’s existence. Q8.Ans: C. Universal types or kinds that somehow exist outside of space and time.

Platonic Forms are universals that Pluto used to metaphorically explain his concepts. Q9. Ans: C. Realism. Pluto’s forms consist of figure thus making them to contain mathematical realism. They also consist of Form of ‘Good’ thus making them to contain ethical realism.Q10.Ans: B. On returning to the cave, he/she would be welcomed as a hero and savior by those who never left the cave, because he/she would function better in the dark than those who had stayed chained in the cave (Pluto, 222).

Pluto used the example of a cave with prisoners and outside the light to emphasize on the essence of education. In this case, education is meant to shade light on people in order for them to enlighten others who are in the dark (Pluto, 221). Work CitedPluto. Plato: The Republic: Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 2000. Print