UGC NET Second Paper (Philosophy) December 2004

 

UGC NET Second Paper (Philosophy) December 2004

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UGC NET Second Paper - Philosophy

1. Rta stands for:

(A) Duty

(B) Dharma

(C) Cosmic order

(D) Causal relation

Correct Answer is C

2. "Fire is cold, because it is a substance" is an example of the fallacy called:

(A) Asiddha

(B) Viruddha

(C) Savyabhichāra

(D) Bādhita

Correct Answer is D

3. Which of the following pairs is coherent?

(A) Sunyavada - Yõgachara

(B) Vivartaváda - Vaibhāsika

(C) Bahya-Pratyaksa-vāda - Madhyamika

(D) Bahyānumēyavāda - Sautrāntika

Correct Answer is D

4. In Ramanuja's Philosophy all the following propositions are true EXCEPT:

(A) Jiva is not free

(C) Every Jiva depends on God

(B) God rules every Jiva from within

(D) Every Jiva is organically related to God

Correct Answer is D

5. The theory of perceptual error, according to Kumarila is:

(A) Akhyati

(B) Viparita Khyati

(C) Anyatha Khayati

(D) Anirvachanīya Khyāti

Correct Answer is B

6. The doctrine of Pratitya Samutpāda means that:

(A) the effect does not pre-exist in the cause

(B) the effect pre-exists in the cause

(C) the effect is an appearance only

(D) the effect necessarily depends upon the cause

Correct Answer is D

7. Pratitya Samutpāda is the thesis that:

(A) the existence of everything is momentary

(B) the existence of everything is questionable

(C) the existence of everything is pre-determined

(D) the existence of everything is conditional

Correct Answer is C

8. Jainism classifies Paroksa knowledge into:

(A) Mati and Shruta

(B) Avadhi and Mati

(C) Mati and Kevala

(D) Avadhi and Kēvala

Correct Answer is A

9. Charvaka epistemology entertains:

(A) Anumana only

(B) Pratyaksa only

(C) Pratyaksa and Anumâna

(D) Sabda only

Correct Answer is B

10. The Vaisesika Postulates Akas'a as the:

(A) Condition of movement

(B) Substratum of light

(C) Substratum of sound

(D) Substratum of colour

Correct Answer is C

11. According to Nyaya, there are three kinds of alaukika perception viz., Sámányalaksana, Iñanalaksan and:

(A) Yogaja

(B) Manasa

(C) Avadhi

(D) Ghranaja

Correct Answer is A

12. The jivätman in the deep sleep is called:

(A) Visva

(B) Virat

(C) Taijasa

(D) Prajña

Correct Answer is D

13. Nyaya accepts:

(A) Svatah-Pramanya regarding both Prama and apramā

(B) Prataha Pramanya regarding both Prama and apramá

(C) Svatah Pramanya regarding Pramă but Pratah-Pramanya regarding aprama

(D) Pratah-pramanya regarding Prama but Svatah-Prämánya regarding apramā

Correct Answer is B

14. The second Arya-Satya, taught by Buddha relates to:

(A) the existence of suffering

(B) the cessation of suffering

(C) the cause of suffering

(D) none of the above

Correct Answer is C

15. In Sankarâs Advaita all the propositions are false EXCEPT:

(A) Karmayoga is the principal means to Jivanmukti

(B) Jñānayoga is the principal means to Vidēhamukti

(C) Karmayoga is the principal means to Videhamukti

(D) Jñanayoga is the principal means to Jivanmukti

Correct Answer is D

16. In which stage of Astängayoga, the distinction between the knower, the known and the knowledge disappears?

(A) Samprajñāta Samādhi

(B) Asamprajñāta Samādhi

(C) Sananda Samadhi

(D) Sasmita Samadhi

Correct Answer is B

17. Which one of the following is not a Sämkhya argument for the existence of Prakriti?

(A) Bhedänäm Parimanat

(B) Samanvayat

(C) Karana Karya Vibhāgāt

(D) Bhoktrbhāvāt

Correct Answer is B

18. "The hill has fire because it is Knowable" is an example of the fallacy known as:

(A) Satpratipaksa

(B) Asiddha

(C) Badhita

(D) Savyabhichara

Correct Answer is D

19. Match List - I with List - II and select the correct answer from the code given below:

List - I	List - II
(a) Ishvarakrsna	(i) Viveka - Chúdamani
(b) Kanada	(ii) Sämkhya Karika
(c) Samkara	(iii) Sri,bhashya
(d) Ramanuja	(iv) Vaiśesika-Sūtras

Code:

    (a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)

(B) (ii) (i) (iii) (iv)

(C) (i) (iv) (ii) (iii)

(D) (ii) (iv) (i) (iii)

Correct Answer is D

20. The watch-word for universal religion, according to Vivekananda, is:

(A) tolerance

(B) acceptance

(C) compassion

(D) faith in man

Correct Answer is A

21. According to Tagore, religion consists in:

(A) Man's capacity of self-transcendence

(B) Man's capacity of self-awareness

(C) Man's capacity of self-sacrifice

(D) Man's capacity of self-realisation

Correct Answer is B

22. According to Iqbal, the cosmological argument for the existence of God is inadequate because it is inconsistent with:

(A) the Causal law

(B) the Cosmic law

(C) the Moral law

(D) the Teleological law

Correct Answer is D

23. According to Aurobindo, the ascent from mind to supermind takes place through the following intermediary steps:

(A) Illumined Mind, Overmind, Intuition

(B) Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Intuition, Overmind

(C) Intuition, Overmind, Illumined Mind

(D) Illumined Mind, Higher Mind, Intuition, Overmind

Correct Answer is B

24. According to K. C. Bhattacharya there are:

(A) Six grades of theoretic consciousness

(B) Five grades of theoretic consciousness

(C) Four grades of theoretic consciousness

(D) Three grades of theoretic consciousness

Correct Answer is C

25. Intellectual cognition, according to Radhakrishnan, is knowledge obtained by:

(A) analysis and abstraction

(B) synthesis and abstraction

(C) analysis and synthesis

(D) imagination and sensation.

Correct Answer is C

26. According to Hegel the history of the world is:

(A) spiritual progress

(B) material progress

(C) moral progress

(D) natural progress

Correct Answer is A

27. Who among the following has said that space has its basis in the subjective constitution of the human mind?

(A) Locke

(B) Leibnitz

(C) Kant

(D) Newton

Correct Answer is C

28. Which one of the following is an analytic statement according to kant?

(A) A rainy day is a cold day

(B) A rainy day is a wet day

(C) A rainy day is a day which makes green grass

(D) A rainy day is a gloomy day

Correct Answer is A

29. What is known as 'Hume's fork' is the distinction between:

(A) impressions and ideas

(B) relations of ideas and matters of fact

(C) reason and passions

(D) the self and the world

Correct Answer is B

30. Which one of the following statements is not implied by Berkeley's view that 'to be is to be perceived'?

(A) Ideas can exist only as long as they are being perceived

(B) Qualities cannot exist independently of the perceiving mind

(C) Objects cannot exist when they are not perceived by any mind

(D) Objects cannot exist when they are not perceived by human beings

Correct Answer is B

31. Which are of the following is the correct definition of secondary qualities, according to Locke?

(A) Secondary qualities are nothing in the objects themselves but power to produce sensations in us by their primary qualities.

(B) Secondary qualities are those which are imposed on the external objects by human mind.

(C) Secondary qualities are those that vary according to variation in condition of perception.

(D) Secondary qualities are those whose ideas are not exact resemblances of qualities of objects.

Correct Answer is A

32. According to Leibnitz monads are:

(A) dependent on external agencies

(B) internally self-sufficient

(C) interdependent

(D) independent

Correct Answer is B

33. According to Spinoza the number of substances can be:

(A) One only

(B) Two only

(C) Three only

(D) Four only

Correct Answer is A

34. Descartes distinguished between three kinds of ideas. The one he did not identify is:

(A) Innate ideas

(B) Complex ideas

(C) Fictitious ideas

(D) Adventitious ideas

Correct Answer is B

35. Which one of the following is the most appropriate description of Aristotle's God?

(A) pure form and perfect actuality

(B) pure matter and perfect actuality

(C) pure form and pure potentiality

(D) pure matter and pure potentiality

Correct Answer is A

36. Which one of the following is not the view of St. Augustine?

(A) The only knowledge worth having is knowledge of God

(B) Reason is opposed to faith and irrelevant to it

(C) Logic, metaphysis and ethics are valuable only if they contribute to the knowledge of God

(D) My knowledge that I exist is an indubitable certainty

Correct Answer is C

37. In which of his dialogues has Plato propounded his theory of knowledge as recollection?

(A) The Laws

(B) The Republic

(C) lon

(D) Meno

Correct Answer is D

38. Which one of the following causes does not belong to Aristotle's philosophy?

(A) Necessary

(B) Formal

(C) Material

(D) Efficient

Correct Answer is A

39. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the code given below:

List I	List II
(a) Aristotle	(i) Transcendental unity of apperception
(b) Spinoza	(ii) Pre-established harmony
(c) Leibnitz	(iii) Unmoved mover
(d) Kant	(iv) Intellectual love of God

Code:

    (a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)

(B) (ii) (iv) (ii) (i)

(C) (ii) (i) (iv) (iii)

(D) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)

Correct Answer is B

40. That human being has been cast in a world beyond his willing is the thesis propounded by:

(A) Nietzsche

(B) Husserl

(C) Sartre

(D) Heidegger

Correct Answer is D

41. Husserl's transcendental-phenomenological reduction is aimed at discovering

(A) empirical ego

(B) phenomenological ego

(C) intersubjective ego

(D) transcendental ego

Correct Answer is D

42. According to Wittgenstein, the primitive elements out of which the world is constituted are:

(A) objects

(B) facts

(C) states of affairs

(D) forms of objects

Correct Answer is C

43. Russell's refutation of idealism was directed against:

(A) Causal relations

(B) internal relations

(C) external relations

(D) conceptual relations

Correct Answer is B

44. Moore's refutation of idealism was directed against:

(A) Transcendental Idealism

(B) Absolute Idealism

(C) Subjective Idealism

(D) Both (A) and (B)

Correct Answer is D

45. Nietzsche's will-to-power is basically a drive towards:

(A) preservation

(B) destruction

(C) transformation

(D) creation

Correct Answer is C

46. According to Nyaya - Vaishesika, Karya is the pratiyogim of:

(A) Anyonyābhāva

(B) Atyantābhāva

(C) Pragabhāva

(D) Pradhvamsābhāva

Correct Answer is C

47. According to Krishnamurti, the reason for the emergence of the self is:

(A) psychological

(B) biological

(C) teleological

(D) social

Correct Answer is A

48. Satyagraha, in the eyes of Gandhi, is a method of:

(A) conversion

(B) coercion

(C) both conversion and coercion

(D) neither conversion nor coercion

Correct Answer is A

49. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?

(A) Ambedkar – Anihilation of caste

(B) K. C. Bhattacharyya – The subject as freedom

(C) Tagore – Sadhana

(D) Iqbal – Integral yoga

Correct Answer is D

50. According to Samkhya, the third evolute of prakrti is:

(A) Mahat

(B) Manas

(C) Tan-matras

(D) Ahankara

Correct Answer is D