UGC NET Second Paper (Philosophy) December 2005

UGC NET Second Paper (Philosophy) December 2004

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UGC NET Philosophy

1. What is regarded as the fountain head of philosophy?

(A) Vedas

(B) Gita

(C) Upanishads

(D) None of these

Correct Answer is C

2. Vedanta literally means:

(A) Vaidic rituals

(B) Problems discuss in Vedas

(C) The end of the Vedas

(D) None of the above

Correct Answer is C

3. Jagrat, Svapna, Sushupti and Turiya are the conditions of:

(A) Brahman

(B) Jiva

(C) Ishwar

(D) Atman

Correct Answer is D

4. What is Moksha in upanishdic-philosophy?

(A) Knowledge of Brahman

(B) Knowledge of Atman

(C) Unity of Brahman and Atman

(D) None of the above

Correct Answer is B

5. The word Charvak means:

(A) Materialist

(B) A person who is 'sweet tongued'

(C) Metaphysician

(D) Both (A) and (B)

Correct Answer is B

6. According to whom vedas are full of lies and repetition, made by cunning priests:

(A) Yoga school

(B) Sainkhya

(C) Charvaka

(D) None of these

Correct Answer is C

7. According to whom knowledge is of two kinds pramana and naya:

(A) Jainas

(B) Charvakas

(C) Both (A) and (B)

(D) Neither (A) nor (B)

Correct Answer is A

8. Syadvada is:

(A) Sceptic

(C) Relativistic

(B) Empiricist

(D) Rationalistic

Correct Answer is C

9. According to whom 'like the flame of lamp, life is changing every moment:

(A) Jainism

(B) Buddhism

(D) None of these

(C) Sikhism

Correct Answer is B

10. The theory of no soul is attributed to:

(A) Buddhism

(B) Jainism

(C) Hinduism

(D) None of these

Correct Answer is A

11. Is inference, the second source of knowledge according to Nyaya:

(A) Yes

(B) No

(C) Not certain

(D) Nothing can be said

Correct Answer is A

12. According to Nyaya, there are three kinds of alaukik perception viz, samanyalakshana, gyanalakshan and:

(A) Yogaja

(B) Manas

(C) Savikalpa

(D) Vikalp

Correct Answer is A

13. Vaisheshika divided categories into two classes bhava and:

(A) Dravya

(B) Real

(C) Abhava

(D) Abhidheya

Correct Answer is C

14. Vaisheshika philosophy is pluratistic and realistic but not --------------- admits spiritual substance.

(A) Materialistic

(B) Subjective

(C) Idealistic

(D) None of these

Correct Answer is A

15. Sainkhya admits, the first cause, which is specifically described as the supreme root cause of the world is:

(A) Purusha

(B) Prakriti

(C) Mahat

(D) Buddhi

Correct Answer is B

16. According to Sainkhya, Purusha is:

(A) Conscious, experience and active

(B) Unconscious, active and experience

(C) Consciousness, experience and inactive

(D) Unconscious, inactive and experience

Correct Answer is C

17. The theory of knowledge is known as jñātatāvāda:

(A) Ramanuja

(B) Kumarila's

(C) Udayana's

(D) Aridhara's

Correct Answer is B

18. God and Brahman cannot be the cause of the world is suggested by:

(A) Sainkhya

(B) Naiyayikas

(C) Yoga

(D) Sainkara

Correct Answer is C

19. Eternal consciousness is only an inseparable attribute of God, not his very essence, as maintained in the:

(A) Vaisheshika

(B) Nyaya

(C) Advaita Vedenta

(D) Yoga

Correct Answer is C

20. Ramanuja attempts a harmonious combination of absolutism with personal:

(A) Realism

(B) Nominalism

(C) Theism

(D) None of these

Correct Answer is D

21. According to Vivekananda, the universal religion is:

(A) Just as the universal brotherhood of man

(B) A amalgam of the universal philosophy

(C) Just tollerance

(D) Positive acceptance

Correct Answer is C

22. What is the intermediate principle or a principle of selective knowledge in Sri Aurubindo's philosophy?

(A) Gnostic Being

(B) Psychic Being

(C) Supermind

(D) Consciousness force

Correct Answer is C

23. The process of evolution is made possible by the process of:

(A) Mind

(B) Involution

(C) Ascent

(D) Transformation

Correct Answer is C

24. By conceiving God as the Supreme Ego, Iqbal means:

(A) God as light

(B) A dynamic and creative life

(C) Infinite creative possibilities

(D) A creative progress of the world

Correct Answer is B

25. Tagore says, "Plan possesses an extra-awareness that is greater than his material sense - this is his manhood. It is this deep abiding creative force which is his religion". With the help of above statement, find out which alternative will be suitably implied in the alternatives given below:

(A) The inner most truth of man is his capacity of self-transcendence

(B) The essential aspect of man is his capacity of going beyond himself

(C) Man's religion is his inner most truth

(D) The true religion consists in a constant exercise of man's capacity

Correct Answer is D

26. The philosophy of K.C. Bhattacharya is known as:

(A) Transcendental Idealism

(B) Idealism

(C) Absolution

(D) Integralism

Correct Answer is A

27. K.C. Bhattacharya has stated that:

(A) The absolute cannot be an object of knowledge

(B) Absolute is literally expressible

(C) Absolute is unknown and unnoable

(D) Absolute is only positively understood

Correct Answer is D

28. The Absolute is conceived by Radhakrishnan as:

(A) Pure existent, consciousness-force and delight of existence

(B) Existence, consciousness and bliss

(C) Pure consciousness, pure freedom and infinite possibility

(D) Value, ideal and spiritual

Correct Answer is C

29. 'Sarvadharma Sambhava', according to Gandhi means:

(A) there is the unity of all religions

(B) all religions are to be treated equally

(C) all religions should be synthesised

(D) all religions teach moral values

Correct Answer is B

30. Which one of the following is true about the position of Gandhi?

(A) God and truth are universal concepts

(B) God is absolute and truth is relative

(C) God and truth are interchangeable

(D) God is truth and truth is God

Correct Answer is D

31. Who claims that substance is aggregate the qualities?

(A) Plato

(B) Aristotle

(C) Hume

(D) Descartes

Correct Answer is D

32. Plato asserts that we should act justly because in doing so we are:

(A) Satisfied with our own action

(B) At one with ourselves and with the gods

(C) Creating justified situation for others

(D) None of the above

Correct Answer is C

33. On which of the following statements does Aristotle differ from Plato regarding the nature of universal?

(A) Universals are real

(B) Universals are not real

(C) Universals are not mental construction

(D) Universals are real in themselves

Correct Answer is D

34. The book Ethics was written by:

(A) Descartes

(B) C.S. Pierce

(C) Apinoza

(D) G. Rycl

Correct Answer is C

35. As an Empiricist Locke claims that all our knowledge is derived either through sensation or:

(A) Perception

(B) Reflection

(C) Thinking

(D) None of these

Correct Answer is A

36. 'There is nothing in the intellect that was not previously in the senses' besides Locke's view is also accepted by:

(A) Plato

(B) Berkeley

(C) Thomas Aquinas

(D) Ryle

Correct Answer is C

37. Which of the following pairs is correctly matched?

(A) Kant – Ideas and their classification

(B) Spinoza – Three order of knowing

(C) Hume – Distinction between mind and matter

(D) Leibnitz – Absolute Idealism

Correct Answer is C

38. Descartes famous aphorism. 'I think, therefore I am' results from his:

(A) Dualism

(B) Method of doubt

(C) Trust in the supremacy of God

(D) Doing philosophy mathematically

Correct Answer is B

39. 'Knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds thence to the understanding and ends in reason' is the view of:

(A) Immanuel Kant

(C) Leibnitz

(B) John Locke

(D) Berkeley

Correct Answer is C

40. Which one of the following pairs believe in Dialectics?

(A) Plato and Aristotle

(B) Plato and Negel

(C) Descartes and Kant

(D) Aristotle and Bradley

Correct Answer is B

41. Who is the founder of Ontological argument?

(A) Socrates

(B) Kant

(C) Spinoza

(D) St. Anselm

Correct Answer is D

42. The doctrine of facts and objects is related to:

(A) William James

(B) Ryle

(C) Russell

(D) Wittgenstein

Correct Answer is D

43. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched?

(A) Heidegger – Freedom and immortality

(B) Hegel – External world and the self

(C) Berkeley – Problem of solipsism

(D) Parmanides – Absolute Idealism

Correct Answer is B

44. Who claims that everything exists only in virtue of its participation in the one permanent and all comprehensive spirit?

(A) Husserl

(B) Kant

(C) Hume

(D) Berkeley

Correct Answer is not found

45. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched?

(A) Wittgenstein – Philosophy and analysis

(B) C.S. Pierce – Critical philosophy

(C) Husserl – Meaning and use

(D) Moore – Refutation of Idealism

Correct Answer is C

46. Berkeley rejects Locke's distinction between primary and secondary qualities because:

(A) All qualities are subjective

(B) Only secondary qualities are subjective

(C) Qualities are created by God

(D) Qualities inhere in substances

Correct Answer is A

47. The philosophical method of Socrates was:

(A) Dialectic

(B) Experimentative

(C) Both dialectic and experimentative

(D) None of these

Correct Answer is A

48. According to Plato soul is:

(A) Real

(B) Unreal

(C) Equaly real with God

(D) None of the above

Correct Answer is A

49. The concept of mind was propounded by:

(A) Hiedegges

(B) Husseral

(C) Hegel

(D) G. Ryle

Correct Answer is D

50. The conception of Geist (spirit) was propounded by:

(A) Kant

(B) St. Augustine

(C) Hegel

(D) Locke

Correct Answer is C