UGC NET Second Paper (Philosophy) June 2011

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1. Greek Philosophy begins with

(A) An inquiry into the essence of the objective world.

(B) By studying body and mind problem.

(C) Accepting received opinions.

(D) Accepting customary set forth doctrines.

Correct Answer is A

2. For Russell, the father of the line of philosophers was

(A) Thales

(B) Socrates

(C) Plato

(D) Anaximander

Correct Answer is A

3. The prominent sophists were

I. Protagoras

II. Gorgias

III. Socrates

IV. Plato

Code:

(A) I and III

(B) I and II

(C) III and IV

(D) II and IV

Correct Answer is B

4. 'Socratic Irony' means

(A) Lecturing on the street corners.

(B) Ready to face death for the sake of truth.

(C) Evolving dialogue. truth through

(D) Acting as that one knew less.

Correct Answer is D

5. For Plato, Dialectics

(A) is based on reason

(B) gives us mere appearances

(C) rests on personal feelings

(D) is the art of thinking in concepts.

Correct Answer is D

6. According to Empiricists, all knowledge springs from

(A) Experience

(B) Understanding

(C) God

(D) Reason

Correct Answer is A

7. According to Leibnitz, soul is

(A) not a monad

(B) an independent monad

(C) supreme monad

(D) in the 'pineal gland'

Correct Answer is C

8. Saint Augustine's influential work, The City of God was considered as the first book on

(A) Comparative Philosophy

(B) Philosophy of Religion

(C) Philosophy of History

(D) Philosophy of Christianity

Correct Answer is C

9. Summa Theologica was written by

(A) Saint Augustine

(B) Saint Anselm

(C) St. Thomas Aquinas

(D) None of the above

Correct Answer is C

10. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding was written by

(A) Descartes

(B) Spinoza

(C) Leibnitz

(D) Locke

Correct Answer is D

11. Spinoza's monistic pluralism reduces individuals to the following:

(A) Idea

(B) Attribute

(C) Substance

(D) Mode

Correct Answer is B

12. Which of the following statements are not true for Heraclitus?

I. Fire is the basic world stuff.

II. To men all things are fair and good.

III. To God all things are fair and good.

IV. You cannot step into the same river twice.

Code:

(A) I and II

(B) III and IV

(C) II only

(D) II and III

Correct Answer is D

13. Who said, "The world at every stage is both a product and a prophecy"?

(A) Socrates

(B) Plato

(C) Locke

(D) Hegel

Correct Answer is D

14. Find out the odd :

(A) Descartes was a monist.

(B) Hume was a sceptic.

(C) Leibnitz was a pluralist.

(D) Locke was an empiricist.

Correct Answer is A

15. Locke says intuitive knowledge is that which

(A) is self-evident and certain

(B) is gained through comparison

(C) we have in experience

(D) can be proved

Correct Answer is A

16. Consider the List - I and the List - II and select the code correctly matched:

List - I	List – II
(1) Thales	(i) Academy
(2) Plato	(ii) Change
(3) Pythagoras	(iii) Numbers
(4) Heraclitus	(iv) Water

Code:

    (1) (2) (3) (4)

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

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

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

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

Correct Answer is D

17. Which of the following is the dictum of Kant ?

(A) "Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains."

(B) "Percepts without concepts are blind and concepts without percepts are empty."

(C) "Whatever is real is rational and whatever rational is real."

(D) "An unexamined life is not worth-living."

Correct Answer is B

18. According to whom the first causes of things is philosophy?

(A) Aristotle

(B) Heraclitus

(C) Locke

(D) Russell

Correct Answer is A

19. According to whom 'we know only what we experience in sensation and reflection'?

(A) Locke

(B) Berkeley

(C) Hume

(D) Descartes

Correct Answer is A

20. According to Berkeley esse est percipi means:

(A) 'I think Therefore I am.'

(B) 'To be is to be perceived.'

(C) 'Doubt implies doubter.'

(D) Analysis of perceived things.'

Correct Answer is B

21. Nietzsche has not written the following book:

(A) Beyond Good and Evil

(B) Thus Spake Zarathustra

(C) Will to Power

(D) The World as Will and Idea

Correct Answer is D

22. The statement, 'Logic is a mirror image of the world', is made by

(A) Wittgenstein

(B) Russell

(C) Quine

(D) Ryle

Correct Answer is A

23. Logical Atomism is the doctrine propounded by

(A) Wittgenstein

(B) Russell

(C) Quine

(D) Ryle

Correct Answer is B

24. The distinction between 'Knowledge of acquaintance' and 'Knowledge by description', is made by

(A) Austin

(B) Ryle

(C) Russell

(D) Davidson

Correct Answer is C

25. "The activity of nothing is nothing', is said by

(A) Sartre

(B) Heidegger

(C) Russell

(D) Thomas Carlyle1

Correct Answer is D

26. Which Upanisad calls God Tajjalān ? as

(A) Chandogya

(B) Katha

(C) Mandukya

(D) Mundaka

Correct Answer is A

27. For Cārvāka

(A) Happiness is liberation

(B) Death is liberation

(C) Karma is liberation

(D) Knowledge is liberation

Correct Answer is B

28. The following Noble Truth of the Buddha includes the doctrine of Dependent Origination:

(A) There is suffering

(B) There is cessation of suffering

(C) There is cause of suffering

(D) Path of liberation

Correct Answer is C

29. The correct order of anumana in Indian Logic is

(A) Minor premise, Conclusion and Major premise

(B) Major premise, Minor premise and Conclusion

(C) Conclusion, Major premise and Minor premise

(D) None of the above

Correct Answer is B

30. According to Vaiśeşika, "The donkey is not a horse." is an example of

(A) Prāgabhāva

(B) Dhvarmsābhāva

(C) Atyantābhāva

(D) Anyonyābhāva

Correct Answer is D

31. In the following Samādhi, citta is identified with some subtle object:

(A) Savitarka

(B) Savicāra

(C) Sānanda

(D) Sāsmita

Correct Answer is B

32. Sribhāsya is the authoritative text of

(A) Viśiştādvaita

(B) Advaita

(C) Dvaita

(D) Dvaitādvaita

Correct Answer is A

33. Kumbhaka is a step in

(A) Yama

(B) Niyama

(C) Āsana

(D) Prānāyāma

Correct Answer is D

34. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R):

Assertion (A): In Sāmikhya, Purusa is pure consciousness.

Reason (R): Purusa is both body and mind.

In the context of the above two statements, which one of the following is correct?

(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 the correct explanation of (A).

(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.

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

Correct Answer is A

35. "Liberation is attained when ignorance is overcome." Whose view is this?

(A) Cārvāka, Bauddha and Jaina

(B) Cārvāka, Vaiśeşika Bauddha and

(C) Cārvāka, Vaiśeşika and Mimāṁsā

(D) Bauddha, Mimāṁsā and Advaita Vedānta

Correct Answer is C

36. Match the items under List I with items under List II and select the correct answer:

List - I	List - II
I. Para	1. A part of God conjoined the body to
II. Vyuha	2. God enters into the soul of the Jivas
III. Mukhya Vibhava	3. In it, there is undisturbed happiness
IV. Antaryāmī	4. Efficient cause of the drama of the universe

Code:

    I II III IV

(A) 3 4 1 2

(B) 4 3 1 2

(C) 1 2 4 3

(D) 2 1 3 4

Correct Answer is A

37. Consider the following statements, which are with regard to Jainism:

1. Relatively, a thing is real.

2. Relatively, a thing is unreal.

3. Relatively, a thing is describable.

Which of the above are correct?

(A) 1 and 3

(B) 2 and 3

(C) 1 and 2

(D) 1, 2 and 3

Correct Answer is A

38. Find out the odd.

(A) Cārvāka is a materialist.

(B) Samkhya is pluralist.

(C) Vaiśeşika is atomist.

(D) Madhva is a dualist.

Correct Answer is B

39. Which of the following is correct?

(A) Brahman is satya, therefore jagat is mithya.

(B) Jagat is mithya, therefore Brahman is satya.

(C) Brahman is satya and jagat is mithya.

(D) All of the above.

Correct Answer is C

40. Who reduced Upamāna to inference ?

(A) Samkhya

(B) Vaiśeşika

(C) Samkhya and Vaiśesika

(D) Advaita Vedānta

Correct Answer is D

41. The author of Gitanjali is

(A) Gandhi

(B) Tagore

(C) K.C. Bhattacarya

(D) Ambedkar

Correct Answer is B

42. The doctrine of trusteeship is propounded by

(A) J. Krishnamurti

(B) Swami Vivekananda

(C) Radhakrishnan

(D) Gandhi

Correct Answer is D

43. The architect of Indian Constitution is

(A) Gandhi

(B) Sri Aurobinda

(C) Tagore

(D) Ambedkar

Correct Answer is D

44. Sri Aurobindo is a

(A) Purnādvaitin

(B) Visistadvaitin

(C) Advaitin

(D) Dvaitin

Correct Answer is A

45. Radhakrishnan is the author of

(A) Sarvodaya

(B) Life Divine

(C) Religion and Society

(D) Who Are the Sudras ?

Correct Answer is C

46. The Journal Harijan was run by

(A) Ambedkar

(B) Sri Aurobindo

(C) Gandhi

(D) Swami Vivekananda

Correct Answer is C

47. Ambedkar influenced by was very much

(A) Buddhism

(B) Christianity

(C) Hinduism

(D) Jainism

Correct Answer is A

48. J. Krishnamurti said which of the following ?

(A) Truth is God.

(B) Truth is what works.

(C) Truth is painful.

(D) Truth is a pathless land.

Correct Answer is D

49. Who said, "Education is the manifestation of perfection which is already there in man"?

(A) Swami Vivekananda

(B) Sri Aurobindo

(C) Iqbal

(D) Gandhi

Correct Answer is A

50. Which of the following statements are made by J. Krishnamurti ?

1. Duty is complete order.

2. Freedom and love go together.

3. The mind has to be empty to see clearly.

4. Journey is better than arrival.

(A) 1, 2 and 3

(B) 2, 3 and 4

(C) 1, 3 and 4

(D) All of the above

Correct Answer is D