UGC NET Second Paper (Philosophy) June 2008

1. Who has propounded water as fundamental stuff of the universe ?

(A) Anaximenes

(B) Anaximander

(D) Hegel

Correct Answer is C

2. The concept of Rta as cosmic order is found in:

(A) Brahmasūtra

(B) Rgveda

(D) Bhagavadgītā

Correct Answer is B

3. The distinction of Sreyas and Preyas is found in:

(A) Praśnopaniṣad

(B) Mändükyopaniṣad

(D) Kathopaniṣad

Correct Answer is D

4. There is a direct relationship between Cetanā and moral karma. This is maintained by:

(A) Vedas

(B) Upaniṣads

(D) Buddhism

Correct Answer is D

5. What among the following is not a Klem according to Patañjali ?

(A) Avidyā

(B) Asmita

(D) Dvesa

Correct Answer is C

6. The philosopher who stated that the mind at birth, is a Tabula rasa:

(A) Descartes

(B) Locke

(D) Hume

Correct Answer is B

7. Find the correct pair, belonging to the same school.

(A) Śamkara and Gautama

(B) Uddyotakara and Udayana

(D) Iśvarakışņa and Dharmakirti

Correct Answer is C

8. For Plato, the ultimate reality is:

(A) Particulars

(B) Universals

(D) Both Universals and Particulars

Correct Answer is B

9. 'Matter' and 'Form' are the two fundamental concepts in:

(A) Plato

(B) Socrates

(D) Aristotle

Correct Answer is D

10. Prabhakara propounds:

(A) abhihitäñvayavāda

(B) akhandavākyavāda

(D) none

Correct Answer is C

11. Who accepts anupalabdhi as a linga?

(A) Buddhism

(B) Nyaya

(D) Samkhya

Correct Answer is C

12. Who brought Copernican Revolution in epistemology?

(A) Kant

(B) Hegel

(D) Leibnitz

Correct Answer is A

13. Yogācāra propounds the doctrine of:

(A) bāhyärthaśūnyata

(B) sarvadharmaśūnyata

(D) sarvadrştišünyatā

Correct Answer is D

14. There is no trenchant opposition between knowledge and ignorance according to:

(A) Śańkara

(B) Gandhi

(D) Ambedkar

Correct Answer is C

15. The process of evolution according to Sri Aurobindo pre-supposes:

(A) Transformation

(B) Involution

(D) Mind

Correct Answer is B

16. Who defined perception as "Pratyaksam Kalpanapodham"?

(A) Gautam

(B) Dignāga

(D) Dharmakirti

Correct Answer is B

17. The author of 'Secrets of Self':

(A) Tagore

(B) Iqbal

(D) K. C. Bhattacarya

Correct Answer is B

18. Who has defined cognitive error as "smrtirūpaḥ paratrapūrvadrstāvabhasa h adhyasah"?

(A) Gautama

(B) Dharmakirti

(D) Śamkara

Correct Answer is B

19. "The Principles of Truth and Non-violence are as old as hills" is advocated by:

(A) Radhakrishnan

(B) Tagore

(D) Sri Aurobindo

Correct Answer is C

20. The theory of becoming is propounded by:

(A) Parmenides

(B) Heraclitus

(D) Anaximander

Correct Answer is B

21. Who is the father of dialectical method?

(A) Zeno

(B) Socrates.

(D) Pythagoras

Correct Answer is B

22. 'Man is the measure of all things' whose statement is this:

(A) Zeno

(B) Socrates

(D) Protagoras

Correct Answer is D

23. 'Knowledge is virtue' is propounded by:

(A) Plato

(B) Aristotle

(D) Socrates

Correct Answer is D

24. Who has propounded clarity and distinctness as the criterion of truth?

(A) Plato

(B) Socrates

(D) Descartes

Correct Answer is D

25. The view that 'All knowledge is knowledge through concepts' is propounded by:

(A) Kant

(B) Hegel

(D) Socrates

Correct Answer is D

26. 'Though all our knowledge begins in experience but it does not end in experience' is the view of:

(A) Hegel

(B) Locke

(D) Berkeley

Correct Answer is C

27. The idealist who accepted the reality of objects:

(A) Berkeley

(B) Hegel

(D) Schelling

Correct Answer is A

28. Sabda is an independent pramāņa according to :

(A) Bauddha, Nyaya and Mimämsä

(B) Nyaya, Vaiśeşika and Jaina

(D) Sämkhya, Vaišeşika and Advaita Vedänta

Correct Answer is B

29. Match the List I with List II and choose the correct answer from the code given below:

List I (Author)	List II (Works)
(a) Iśvarakışna	(i) Yogasūtra
(b) Vatsyayana	(ii) Samkhyakarika
(c) Patañjali	(iii) Padarthadharma Samgraha
(d) Praśastapāda	(iv) Nyayabhāsya

Code:

(a) (b) (c) (d)

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

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

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

Correct Answer is A

30. Match the List I with List II and choose the correct answer from the code given below:

List I (Books)	List II (Authors)
(a) Nichomachean Ethics	(i) Plato
(b) Crito	(ii) Descartes
(c) Meditations	(iii) Kant
(d) Critic of Judgement	(iv) Aristotle

Code:

(a) (b) (c) (d)

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

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

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

Correct Answer is C

31. Match the List I with List II and choose the correct answer from the code given below:

List I (Theory)	(Thinkers) List II
(a) Critical method	(i) Hegel
(b) The method of doubt	(ii) Kant
(c) The verification method	(iii) A. J. Ayer
(d) The dialectical method	(iv) Descartes

Code:

(a) (b) (c) (d)

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

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

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

Correct Answer is A

32. Match the List I with List II and choose the correct answer from the code given below:

List I (Authors)	List II (Texts)
(a) Gandhi	(i) Life Divine
(b) Sri Aurobindo	(ii) Hind Swaraj
(c) Tagore	(iii) Eastern Religions and Western Thought
(d) Radhakrishnan	(iv) Creative unity

Code:

(a) (b) (c) (d)

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

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

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

Correct Answer is A

33. Match the List I with List II and choose the correct answer from the code given below:

List I (Thinkers)	List II (Theories)
(a) Sartre	(i) Picture theory
(b) Nietzsche	(ii) Pragmatic theory of Truth
(c) Wittgenstein	(iii) "God is dead"
(d) William James	(iv) "Being and Nothingness"

Code:

(a) (b) (c) (d)

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

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

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

Correct Answer is A

34. Match the List I with List II and choose the correct answer from the code given below:

List I (Texts)	List II (Authors)
(a) Ślokavärthika	(i) Väcaspati Mišra
(b) Tattvakaumudi	(ii) Viśvanātha
(c) Bhāsāpariccheda	(iii) Umäsväti
(d) Tattvärthasūtra	(iv) Kumārila

Code:

(a) (b) (c) (d)

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

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

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

Correct Answer is A

35. Match the List I with List II and choose the correct answer from the code given below:

List I (Authors)		List II (Works)
(a) Sri Aurobindo	(i) Secrets of the self
(b) Tagore	(ii) Absolute and its Alternative forms
(c) K. C. Bhattacharya	(iii) Sadhana
(d) Iqbal	(iv) Integral Yoga

Code:

(a) (b) (c) (d)

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

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

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

Correct Answer is D

Instructions: The following items 36 to 41 consist of two statements one labelled the Assertion (A) and the other labelled the Reason (R). You are to examine these two statements carefully and decide if the Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are individually true and if so whether the Reason is a correct explanation of Assertion. Select your answers to these items using the codes given below and mark your answer sheet accordingly.

Codes:

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not a correct explanation of (A).

(D) (A) is false but (R) is true.

36. Assertion (A): According to Śamkara, the Ultimate Reality is nirguņa Brahman.

Reason (R): There is no God.

Codes:

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not a correct explanation of (A).

(D) (A) is false but (R) is true.

Correct Answer is C

37. Assertion (A): Hegel toned down Kant.

Reason (R): "The Real is the rational".

Codes:

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not a correct explanation of (A).

(D) (A) is false but (R) is true.

Correct Answer is C

38. Assertion (A): Moore refuted Idealism.

Reason (R): Moore defended common sense.

Codes:

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not a correct explanation of (A).

(D) (A) is false but (R) is true.

Correct Answer is B

39. Assertion (A): According to Spinoza "all determination is negation".

Reason (R): Modes are entirely dependent on substance.

Codes:

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not a correct explanation of (A).

(D) (A) is false but (R) is true.

Correct Answer is A

40. Assertion (A): Leibnitz says that 'the monads are windowless'.

Reason (R): The law of sufficient reason is there.

Codes:

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not a correct explanation of (A).

(D) (A) is false but (R) is true.

Correct Answer is A

41. Assertion (A): "I think, therefore I am".

Reason (R): God is a demonstrable certainty.

Codes:

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not a correct explanation of (A).

(D) (A) is false but (R) is true.

Correct Answer is B

42. What is the correct sequence of the following in evolutionary process, according to Sri Aurobindo:

(A) Over mind, Higher mind, Illumined mind, Intuitive mind, Super mind

(B) Higher mind, Illumined mind, Intuitive mind, Over mind, Super mind

(D) Intuitive mind, Higher mind, Illumined mind, Over mind, Super mind

Correct Answer is C

43. Identify the correct sequence.

(A) Thales, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle

(B) Anaximander, Thales, Ryle, Pierce

(D) Leibnitz, Descartes, Hegel, Kant

Correct Answer is A

44. Find the correct combination.

(A) pratityasamutpāda - madhyamapratipad - samanya

(B) dravya - guna - paryaya

(D) puruşa - praksti – adhyāsa

Correct Answer is C

45. The correct sequence of triple transformation in evolutionary theory of Sri Aurobindo is:

(A) Psychic Transformation, Supramental Transformation, Spiritual Transformation

(B) Psychic Transformation, Spiritual Transformation, Supramental Transformation

(D) Supramental Transformation, Spiritual Transformation and Psychic Transformation

Correct Answer is C

Read the following passage and answer the questions 46 to 50: According to Śaņkara, 'reality' is that which does not deviate from its ascertained nature, while unreality is change (vikara). As the Upaniṣads have explained, being without change is reality. But Being may be conceived as 'matter'; so to negate materiality, after defining Brahman as 'reality', immediately it is said that 'Knowledge is Brahman'. As the word 'knowledge' is used as an adjective along with the words 'reality' and 'infinity', it is not used in the sense of 'producer of knowledge' (jäämakarta = knower), for what undergoes changes in the form of a 'knower' cannot be real. Moreover, 'knower' implies the distinctions of known, knowledge and knower, which would contradict the adjective 'infinity' and other Upaniṣadic texts like 'That is Bhama (the vast, i.e. Brahman), where no other is known'. Sankara says that it is unjustifiable to say that though there is nothing else to be known by Brahman, it can know itself, and as such it can be called a 'knower', because if Brahman becomes the known, there remains no 'knower', as there is no internal difference in Brahman. The one Brahman cannot be both knower and known, because it has no parts or members. Further, if Atman (the self) is also put under the category of known things, such as pots, there is no meaning in scriptural teaching about it, for all objective things can be perceived in some way or other at sometime or other. Brahman, which is pure being (sanmatra), can never be known. To conclude, in the definition'knowledge is Brahman', the word 'knowledge' negates activity etc., and materiality. To remove the supposition that as knowledge is limited in the world, Brahman, which is knowledge, is also limited, it is immediately added that Brahman is infinity.

46. In Śamkara the ultimate reality is:

(A) Being-cum-becoming

(B) Knowledge-generating

(D) Becomingless

Correct Answer is D

47. Knowledge presupposes knowable; therefore :

(A) Brahman is both subject and object

(B) Brahman is knowable

(D) Brahman is knowledge

Correct Answer is C

48. A word denotes or connotes a thing; therefore:

(A) The word "Brahman" denotes the object "Brahman"

(B) "Not This, Not This" connotes Brahman

(D) Word itself is Brahman

Correct Answer is D

49. Brahman is infinite, therefore:

(A) It cannot be known by humans

(B) Infinite Brahman can be inferred

(D) Brahman is the world itself

Correct Answer is C

50. Since Brahman lacks activity and materiality:

(A) It is non-existent

(B) It is pure and absolute being

(D) It is an significant reality

Correct Answer is B

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UGC NET Second Paper (Philosophy) June 2008

UGC NET Second Paper (Philosophy) June 2008

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