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Philosophy · AQA 7172 · Paper 1 · June 2025

AQA A Level Philosophy Paper 1 June 2025 question paper

AQA 7172 · Paper 1

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Question 1

What is the difference between analytic truths and synthetic truths?

[3 marks]

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Question 2

Explain the tripartite view of propositional knowledge.

[5 marks]

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Question 3

Explain how local scepticism and global scepticism are similar and how they are different.

[5 marks]

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Question 4

Explain Leibniz’s innatism and one of Locke’s arguments against this position.

[12 marks]

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Question 5

Is indirect realism convincing?

[25 marks]

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Question 6

What, for Aristotle, is the difference between voluntary and involuntary actions?

[3 marks]

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Question 7

Explain the difference between act utilitarianism and rule utilitarianism.

[5 marks]

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Question 8

Explain what Aristotle means by ‘eudaimonia’.

[5 marks]

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Question 9

Explain Kant’s first formulation of the categorical imperative and explain the issue that not all universalisable maxims are distinctly moral.

[12 marks]

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Question 10

Are moral realists right to claim that mind-independent moral facts/properties exist?

[25 marks]

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