pyq/2024/philosophy-optional-i/4

(a) What do the existentialist thinkers mean by the slogan “existence precedes essence”? How is human existence related to human freedom according to them? Discuss. (20 marks)

(b) Why does Husserl think that essences exhibit a kind of continuity between consciousness and being? Discuss. (15 marks)

(c) Explain the nature of the two dogmas that Quine refers to in his paper ‘Two Dogmas of Empiricism’. (15 marks)