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(B) Moral Sciences:--Pt. I. _Psychology_ (2 papers). Standpoint, data,
and methods of psychology. Its fundamental conceptions and hypotheses.
Relations of psychology to physics, physiology, and metaphysics.
(_a_) analysis of consciousness. (_b_) sensation and physiology of
the senses--perception. (_c_) Images and ideas. (_d_) Thought and
formation of concepts. Judgment. (_e_) Emotions, and theories of
emotional expression. (_f_) Volition--pleasure and pain--conflict of
emotions. [In the 2nd part, advanced knowledge on these subjects is
required, plus a knowledge of the physiology of the senses and nervous
system, etc., and of mental pathology in its relation to psychology.]
_Logic_ (2 papers). Province of logic, formal and material. Relation
of logic to psychology, and to the theory of knowledge. (_a_)
names and concepts, definition and division, predicables. (_b_)
classification of judgments and propositions. Theory of the import of
propositions. (_c_) laws of thought, syllogisms, symbolic logic. (_d_)
induction and deduction. (_e_) observation and experiment, hypotheses,
classification, theory of probabilities. (_f_) inference and proof.
Fallacies. [In the 2nd part, advanced knowledge of these subjects and
of the controversies connected with them is required.]
_Ethics_ (1 paper), (_a_) moral judgment, intuition, and
reasoning, motives, pleasure and pain, free will and
determinism, (_b_) ends of moral action--right and wrong--moral
sanctions--obligation--duty--pleasures and pains. (_c_) types of moral
character. Principles of social and political justice. (_d_) The moral
faculty, its origin and development. (_e_) relation of ethics to
psychology, sociology, and politics.
Two papers on political economy and an essay paper exhaust Pt. I.
For those who proceed to Pt. II., two papers on metaphysical and moral
philosophy (as below) must be answered, one on the general history of
modern philosophy, and _one_ or _two_ of the 3 following papers (A)
Psychology II.; (B) Logic II.; (Special) history of modern philosophy
(subject announced each year); _or_ (C) papers in politics and in
advanced political economy:
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