GENERAL DIVINITY EXAMINATION (Junior Class), DIVINITY PRIZE EXAMINATION (Junior Class), EXAMINATION IN FEUDAL AND ENGLISH LAW, EXAMINATION for Degree of BACHELOR IN MEDICINE, EXAMINATION for Degree of MASTER IN SURGERY, MEDICAL SCHOLARSHIP EXAMINATION, DUBLIN EXAMINATION PAPERS, 1872. UNDERGRADUATE HONOR EXAMINATION PAPERS. Hilary Term. SENIOR SOPHISTERS. Ethics. BUTLER. DR. STUBBS. 1. What three arguments does Butler adduce to show that benevolence cannot be resolved into a love of power? 2. From what three sets of comparisons does he prove that man is as much adapted for the good of society as for his own preservation and private good? 3. What does he mean by saying that nothing can be more contrary to our nature than vice? 4. How does he show that the consideration of the authority of Conscience decides the question of obligation in cases where vice appears to conduce to our happiness? 5. Whence does it arise that men are not agreed as to the internal nature of man as they are with regard to his external form? 6. Give a summary of Butler's argument in his first three Sermons. 7. How does he refute Hutcheson's theory that Benevolence and the want of it are the whole of virtue and vice? He gives a proof from practice. b 8. How does Epictetus designate the approving and disapproving action of the moral faculty? It has these two epithets for a twofold reason. 9. How does Butler show that there is in human beings an association of the two ideas of natural and moral evil? DR. TARLETON. 1. What do Butler's opinions appear to have been with respect to the objective characteristic of virtuous actions? What were the opinions of Clarke, Wollaston, Hutcheson, and Kant on this subject? 2. In the Dissertation on Virtue, Butler says, "though the intended good or bad consequences do not follow, we have exactly the same sense of the action as if they did ;" and in the Sermon on Resentment, he says, "Men resent more strongly an injury done than one which, though designed, was prevented." Reconcile these two passages. 3. Develope the arguments for the existence of God and a future state, founded on the moral nature of man. 4. The principle of Deliberate Resentment is peculiar in reference to the conditions of its existence, and also in reference to its gratification when excited? 5. What does the word "interested" properly mean, according to Butler ? How does Butler account for the frequent employment of the word "selfish" in another sense? In what sense is the word "selfish" used when it implies blame? 6. How does Butler show that there is no peculiar competition between Self-love and Benevolence? 7. Is the statement that "Benevolence and the want of it, singly considered, are in no sort the whole of virtue and vice," opposed to the statement that "Benevolence includes in it all virtues"? Can the latter statement be regarded as in any sense strictly true? 8. How are the appetites distinguished from the other active principles, according to Stewart? The third characteristic mentioned by him must be understood in a limited sense in order that it should be distinctive ? A feature which is the reverse of this characteristic, when not understood in a limited sense, belongs to Benevolence, according to Butler ? MR. ABBOTT. 1. State Plato's view of the cardinal virtues, as given by Smith? What is the difference between this view and Aristotle's? 2. What are the imperfections of the systems which place virtue in propriety? 3. State accurately the views of the Stoics with respect to Suicide. How does Smith account for the agreement of the ancient schools on this subject? His explanation is open to question? 4. How does Smith expose the fallacy of Mandeville in representing vanity as the real source of actions called virtuous? 5. According to Smith some consequences which Hutcheson admits to follow from his theory of the moral sense are sufficient to confute it? What reply might be offered to this from Hutcheson's point of view? 6. State fully the chief theories regarding the principle of approba tion. 7. State the means and opposite extremes corresponding to surpaπedia φθόνος, μικροψυχία, εἰρωνεία, and explain to what virtues and vices the names are applied by Aristotle. 8. State and deduce Aristotle's definition of moral virtue. History and English Literature. HISTORY. PROFESSOR BARLOW. 1. What was the last of the wars of Henry IV. of France, and what important consequences resulted from it? 2. Give an account of the "War of the Three Henries." 3. Who was Louis the Moor, and for what reasons is his name memorable in French history? 4. What was the case of the Postnati, in the reign of James I.? 5. Give some account of the A. S. law of compurgation. On what general principle is it based, according to Hallam? Give some other instances of this principle in the A. S. jurisprudence. 6. What important proceedings took place in the Parliament of So Ed. III.? 7. According to Hallam, at what period was the power of the House of Suabia at its zenith on each side of the Alps, and for what reasons? 8. Hallam says that "Charles of Anjou, after the deaths of Manfred and Conradin had left him without a competitor, might be ranked in the first class of European sovereigns." Write short accounts of these three princes. 9. Give a summary of the most important events in the reign of Otho the Great. 10. What is Hallam's opinion as to the legality of the famous summons of John, King of England, by Philip Augustus? PROFESSOR DOWDEN. ENGLISH LITERATURE. 1. Write a sketch of the history of the English hexameter, and other attempts at classical metres in English. Criticise such attempts from your own point of view. 2. Give some account of the dramatic writings of Dryden; and also of his prose writings. 3. State the most important facts in the life of Hobbes; and give some account of his political principles. 4. (a). The poetical career of Crabbe was made up of two separate parts. (b). Name in chronological order the principal poems of Cowper, and comment on the growth of his poetical style. 5. Write out any passage or passages you remember from the "Rape of the Lock," or the "Epistle to Arbuthnot." ENGLISH COMPOSITION. 1. Changes in the method of the studying history from Bede to Buckle. 2. The spirit of the French Revolution as it appears in English Literature. 3. The uses of suffering. [One subject to be chosen.] JUNIOR SOPHISTERS. Mathematics. A. MECHANICS. MR. WILLIAMSON. 1. Find the least power applied parallel to the plane which will sustain a weight of 104 lbs. upon a plane whose gradient is 5 in 13; the coefficient of friction being . (a). In the same case, find the least force applied parallel to the plane which will set the body in motion up the plane. |