UGC NET Second Paper (Philosophy) June 2010
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1. "Man is the measure of all things" is said by
(A) Plato
(B) Aristotle
(C) Socrates
(D) Protagoras
Correct
Answer is D
2. "Knowledge is virtue" is said by
(A) Democritus
(B) Socrates
(C) Aristotle
(D) Leibnitz
Correct
Answer is B
3. Which theory is propounded by Spinoza regarding the
relation between Mind and Body ?
(A) Occasionalism
(B) Parallelism
(C) Pre-established harmony
(D) None of these
Correct
Answer is B
4. Who among the following thinkers is treated as a sceptic
?
(A) Descartes
(B) Locke
(C) Kant
(D) Hume
Correct
Answer is D
5. According to Hegel, Becoming incorporates:
(A) only Being
(B) only Non-Being
(C) both Being and Non-Being
(D) neither Being nor Non-Being
Correct
Answer is C
6. Who has stated 'knowledge by Acquaintance' and 'knowledge
by Description'?
(A) Ayer
(B) Moore
(C) Russell
(D) Ryle
Correct
Answer is C
7. The man who declared himself first "I am a
Philosopher" is
(A) Socrates
(B) Pythogoras
(C) Bacon
(D) Heraclitus
Correct
Answer is D
8. The prominent sophists were
(A) Leucippus and Democritus
(B) Socrates and Plato
(C) Protagoras and Gorgias
(D) Anaxagoras and Tuucydides
Correct
Answer is C
9. Socrates did not preach
(A) 'Right thinking leads to right action.'
(B) 'No man is voluntarily bad or voluntarily good'
(C) 'Doubt implies a doubter'
(D) 'An unexamined life is not worth-living'
Correct
Answer is A
10. Who was the philosopher interviewed by young
Socrates ?
(A) Anaximenes
(B) Anaximander
(C) Heraclitus
(D) Parmenides
Correct
Answer is D
11. The author of 'Memorabilia' is
(A) Xenophon
(B) Socrates
(C) Plato
(D) Aristotle
Correct
Answer is A
12. 'Ontological Argument' of Saint Anselm was adopted
by
(A) Descartes
(B) Spinoza
(C) Leibnitz
(D) Locke
Correct
Answer is C
13. Who said that "our earthly life is a pilgrimage
to God"?
(A) St. Paul
(B) St. Augustine
(C) St. Anselm
(D) St. Thomas Aquinas
Correct
Answer is B
14. 'Meditations on First Philosophy" was written
by
(A) Descartes
(B) Spinoza
(C) Leibnitz
(D) Locke
Correct
Answer is A
15. Arrange the following books in order in which they
appear in the history of Philosophy.
I. Organon
II. Phaedo
III. Problems of Philosophy
IV. Principles of Philosophy
Code:
(A) IV, III, I, II
(B) I, II, III, IV
(C) II, I, IV, III
(D) III, IV, II, I
Correct
Answer is C
16. Find out the odd :
(A) Descartes was a dualist.
(B) Spinoza was a monist.
(C) Leibnitz was a pluralist.
(D) Locke was a rationalist.
Correct
Answer is D
17. 'The True Knowledge of External World is impossible'
is the view held by
(A) Spinoza
(B) Leibnitz
(C) Locke
(D) Berkeley
Correct
Answer is D
18. The faculty of understanding in Kant's philosophy is
known as
(A) Transcendental Aesthetic
(B) Transcendental logic
(C) Transcendental Dialectic
(D) None of these
Correct
Answer is D
19. According to Hegel, reality consists
(A) full of contradictions negations &
(B) full of percepts & concepts
(C) simple ideas & complex ideas
(D) space and time
Correct
Answer is A
20. The Naturalistic fallacy is attributed to
(A) Immanuel Kant
(B) J.S. Mill
(C) G.E. Moore
(D) Gilbert Ryle
Correct
Answer is C
21. The leading figure of existentialism in France is
(A) J. P. Sartre
(B) S. Kierkegaard
(C) Karl Jaspers
(D) Nietzsche
Correct
Answer is A
22. The phrase 'forgetfulness of Being' is attributed to
(A) A. J. Ayer
(B) Edmund Husserl
(C) Martin Heidegger
(D) J.P. Sartre
Correct
Answer is C
23. The 'private language argument' was prepared by
(A) A.J. Ayer
(B) Carnap
(C) G.E. Moore
(D) Wittgenstein
Correct
Answer is D
24. Which of the following is not included in analytical
philosophy?
(A) Logical atomism
(B) Logical positivism
(C) Linguistic analysis
(D) Phenomenology
Correct
Answer is D
25. The vedic word Rta stands for
(A) only moral order
(B) only cosmic order
(C) both moral and cosmic order
(D) None of the above
Correct
Answer is C
26. Brahmacarya is the means to meet
(A) Rşirņa
(B) Pitrņa
(C) Devarņa
(D) Manuşyarņa
Correct
Answer is D
27. Who among the following does believe in God?
(A) Buddha
(B) Jaimini
(C) Patañjali
(D) Mahāvira
Correct
Answer is C
28. Consider the List-I and the List-II and select the
code correctly matched:
|
List - I |
List - II |
|
(1) Praśastapāda |
(i) Tattvakaumudi |
|
(2) Vācaspati Miśra |
(ii) Ślokavārthika |
|
(3) Jayanta Bhattā |
(iii) Nyāyamañjari |
|
(4) Kumarila |
(iv) Padarthadharma Samgraha |
Code:
(1) (2) (3) (4)
(A) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(B) (iv) (i) (iii)
(ii)
(C) (ii) (i) (iii) (iv)
(D) (iv) (ii) (i) (iii)
Correct
Answer is B
29. Assertion (A): Iśvara is the nimittakāraņa (efficient cause) of the world.
Reason (R) : Iśvara is ominipresent.
(A) Both (A) and (R) are correct, but (R) is not the
correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the
explanation of (A). correct
(C) (A) is correct, but (R) is not and (R) is not the
correct explanation of (A).
(D) (R) is correct, but (A) is not and (R) is not the
correct explanation of (A).
Correct
Answer is B
30. The view that Vedas are pauruşeya is held by
(A) Jaimini
(B) Sańkara
(C) Gautama
(D) Kapila
Correct
Answer is A
31. The samavāyikārana of the world according to the
Vaiśeşikas is
(A) Paramāņu
(B) Dvyaņuka
(C) Trasarenu
(D) None of the above
Correct
Answer is D
32. Syādvādā is the
(A) Epistemological theory of Buddhists
(B) Epistemological theory of Vedāntins
(C) Metaphysical theory of Jainas
(D) Epistemological Jainas theory of
Correct
Answer is C
33. Carvaka Ethics is called
(A) Hedonistic
(B) Idealistic
(C) Marxism
(D) Realism
Correct
Answer is A
34. Prātitya samutpāda-vāda is an
(A) Epistemological theory of Nyāya
(B) Theory Buddhism of causation in
(C) Epistemological theory of Vedanta
(D) Metaphysical theory of the Jainas
Correct
Answer is B
35. The founder of Mimāmsa Darśana is
(A) Kapila
(B) Patañjali
(C) Jaimini
(D) Śańkara
Correct
Answer is C
36. Nirguna Brahma is related to
(A) Vyāvahārika Satya
(B) Pāramārthika Satya
(C) Prātibhāsika Satya
(D) Bhakti and Prapatti
Correct
Answer is B
37. Assertion (A): The three basics of Buddhism as a
religion are: the Buddha, the Dhamma and the Sangha.
Reason (R): The three basic features of Buddhist Philosophy are: Anicca,
Asatta and Dukkha.
(A) Both (A) and (R) individually true. are
(B) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are individually false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Correct
Answer is A
38. Assertion (A): Vedanta of Sankara accepts Sadhana
Catustaya.
Reason (R) : Vedanta of Sankara accepts Sadhana Saptaka.
(A) (A) is correct, but (R) is wrong.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are correct.
(C) (A) is wrong, but (R) is correct.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are wrong.
Correct
Answer is A
39. Consider the following inference :
1. Tom is a rational animal.
2. All men are rational animals.
3. Tom is such a man.
4. Because Tom is a man.
5. Therefore, Tom is a rational animal.
The correct sequence of statements according to Nyāya inference is
(A) 1-4-2-3-5
(B) 4-1-2-5-3
(C) 2-4-3-5-1
(D) 1-3-4-5-2
Correct
Answer is B
40. 'Tirthankara' is a term associated with
(A) Carvaka
(B) Jainism
(C) Buddhism
(D) Yoga
Correct
Answer is B
41. Classical Vaiśesika system is known as
(A) Science of soul
(B) Science of thinking
(C) Science of meditation
(D) Science of categories
Correct
Answer is D
42. "On this ground there is no pot now"
is an example of
(A) Prior non-existence
(B) Annihilative non-existence
(C) Reciprocal non-existence
(D) Absolute non-existence
Correct
Answer is B
43. The main objective of the Mimansa system is
(A) To establish the authority of the Upanishads
(B) To establish the authority of the Vedas
(C) To establish the authority of the Smrtis
(D) None of the above
Correct
Answer is B
44. According to Gandhi, the goal of constructive
program is
(A) Providing economic relief to the unemployed.
(B) Distributing some wages to spinners and weavers.
(C) Creating a non-violent order of society.
(D) None of the above
Correct
Answer is C
45. 'Buddhism is nothing, if not rationalism' according
to
(A) Gandhi
(B) Ambedkar
(C) Bhagavandas
(D) Tilak
Correct
Answer is A
46. Which of the following is not acceptable to Ambedkar
?
(A) Liberty, equality and fraternity
(B) Education, Organisation and agitation
(C) Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha
(D) Caste, Varna and Karma
Correct
Answer is D
Read the following passage and answer
the questions from 47 to 50:
"Religion is not
the outcome of the weakness of human nature; religion is not here because we
fear a tyrant; religion is love, unfolding, expanding, growing. Take the watch
within the little case is machinery and a spring. The spring, when wound up,
tries to regain its natural state. You are like the spring in the watch, and it
is not necessary that all watches have the same kind of a spring, and it is not
necessary that we all have the same religion. And why should we quarrel? If we
all had the same ideas the world would
be dead. External motion we call action;
internal motion is human thought. The stone falls to the earth. You say it is
caused by the law of gravitation. The horse draws the cart and God draws the
horse. That is the law of motion. Whirlpools show the strength of the current;
stop the current and stagnation ensues. Motion is life. We must have unity and
variety. The rose would smell as sweet by any other name, and it does not
matter what your religion is called.
47. What is religion, as per the author of the passage?
(A) weakness of human nature
(B) fear of a tyrant
(C) love
(D) all the above
Correct
Answer is C
48. In religion love is not
(A) unfolded
(B) expanded
(C) concretised
(D) grown
Correct
Answer is NOT
49. For the author, in religion the following is needed:
(A) External motion
(B) Internal motion
(C) Both (A) and (B)
(D) None of the above
Correct
Answer is C
50. Which one of the following is not correct for author
?
(A) Religion is love.
(B) Religion is fragrant like a rose.
(C) Religion has manyness.
(D) Religion is individualistic.
Correct
Answer is D
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