Aragón PAU History of Philosophy study plan

Map the Platonic corpus relevant to PAU: list the allegory of the cave (Republic VII), the divided line, the theory of Forms, and the soul's tripartition, citing the passage numbers you will quote in an exam

Reconstruct Plato's argument that opinion differs from knowledge by writing it out as a numbered premise-conclusion chain in your own words

Define 12 core Platonic terms in Spanish (idea/eidos, participación, reminiscencia, dialéctica, opinión, ciencia) with one exam-ready sentence each

Draft a 200-word answer to 'Explain the meaning of the cave allegory' without consulting notes, then correct it against your source text

Compare Aristotle's four causes with Plato's Forms by building a two-column table that names where each thinker locates the source of intelligibility

Explain hylomorphism, potency/act, and the unmoved mover in a single coherent paragraph linking them causally

Identify three standard exam prompts on Aristotle and outline each in five bullet points

Distinguish Aristotle's virtues as a mean from Platonic virtue-as-knowledge in 150 words

Trace Descartes' route from hyperbolic doubt to cogito to the existence of God as a numbered argumentative sequence

Separate the three types of idea (innate, adventitious, factitious) and state which one carries the proof of God

Explain the Cartesian circle objection and write your own short reply to it

List the differences between Cartesian dualism and Hume's bundle theory before studying Hume, as a prediction you will later test

Reconstruct Hume's fork (relations of ideas vs matters of fact) and apply it to two claims of your own choosing

Explain causation as constant conjunction and habit, and state precisely what Hume denies we perceive

Contrast Hume's empiricist account of personal identity with Descartes' substantial self in 200 words

Answer three short-answer questions on Descartes and Hume in 10 minutes each, closed book

Explain the Copernican turn: why Kant claims objects must conform to our cognition, in your own words with an example

Distinguish analytic/synthetic and a priori/a posteriori, and place the synthetic a priori in the resulting grid

State the three questions of the first Critique and how the transcendental dialectic answers them

Formulate two objections to Kant's transcendental idealism and one Kantian reply to each

Reconstruct Marx's base/superstructure and alienation arguments as premise chains, naming the Hegelian move he inverts

Explain Nietzsche's master/slave morality, will to power, and eternal recurrence, and show how they connect

Summarise the existentialist response (freedom, anguish, bad faith) and identify which Nietzschean theme it inherits

Draft a 300-word comparison of Marx and Nietzsche on the origin of values

State Ortega's 'I am I and my circumstance', the distinction between ideas and beliefs, and perspectivism, each in one precise sentence

Place Ortega against his German sources (Kant, Husserl, Heidegger) and against the Generation of '14 context

Practise the four-step commentary method (contextualise, summarise, analyse concepts and arguments, evaluate) on an unseen text fragment

Time a full commentary to the exam's allotted minutes and mark your own weaknesses

Run two full timed mock exams covering all six domains and score them strictly against the rubric

Rewrite your three weakest answers from memory until each meets the rubric's top band

Consolidate a single one-page timeline linking every author to their period, key work, and central problem

Rehearse standard connective phrases in Spanish for contextualisation, comparison, and critical evaluation