UGC NET Second Paper (Philosophy) December 2010

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1. Correct number of Samhitās is

(A) One

(B) Two

(C) Three

(D) Four

Correct Answer is D

2. According to the Jainas truth is

(A) Absolute

(B) Relative

(C) Both Absolute and Relative

(D) None of the above

Correct Answer is C

3. The Priest belonging to Samaveda is known as

(A) Udgāthā

(B) Hotā

(C) Brahmā

(D) None of the above

Correct Answer is A

4. Śabda is pramāņa but not an independent pramāņa according to

(A) Cārvāka

(B) Vaiśeşika

(C) Baudha

(D) None of the above

Correct Answer is D

5. Choose the correct combination.

(A) Sāmānyalaksana, jñānalaksana, kevala

(B) Sāmānyalaksana, avadhi kevala,

(C) Sālokya, yogaja sāmānyalaksana,

(D) Sāmānyalaksana, jñānalaksana, yogaja

Correct Answer is A

6. Which one is not a state of Samādhi?

(A) Ekāgra

(B) Savitarka

(C) Savicāra

(D) Sānanda

Correct Answer is D

7. Who holds that the parimāna (dimension) of the body is the parimana of the ātmā ?

(A) Cārvāka

(B) Jaina

(C) Vaiśeşika

(D) None of the above

Correct Answer is C

8. According to Madhva jiva and Brahman are

(A) Different

(B) Non-different

(C) Both different and non- different

(D) None of the above

Correct Answer is A

9. The Vaiśeşikas hold that the parimāna of the trasarenu is due to

(A) The parimāņa of the paramāņus

(B) The parimāna of the dryanukās

(C) The number of its constituent dryanukās

(D) The number of the paramānus

Correct Answer is C

10. Choose the correct combination.

(A) Ākāśa, Eka, Nitya, Vibhu

(B) Ātma, Eka, Nitya, Murta

(C) Kāla, Eka, Nitya, Mahat

(D) Sāmānya, Aneka, Nitya, Vibhu

Correct Answer is A

11. Consider the List-I and List-II and choose the code correctly matched.

List - I	List - II
(a) Ākāśa	(i) Rūpa
(b) Kșiti	(ii) Śabda
(c) Tejah	(iii) Gandha
(d) Marut	(iv) Sparśa

Codes:

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

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

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

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

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

Correct Answer is B

12. Find the correct sequence :

(A) Prakrti, mahat, ahaṁkāra

(B) Mahat, ahaṁkāra, prakrti

(C) Prakrti, ahamkara, mahat

(D) Ahaṁkāra, prakrti, mahat

Correct Answer is A

13. To Vivekananda Māyā is

(A) A power of Brahman

(B) A form of evil

(C) A statement of fact

(D) A state of consciousness

Correct Answer is C

14. Brahmacarya is the means to meet

(A) Devarna

(B) Pitrrna

(C) Rsirna

(D) None of the above

Correct Answer is C

15. Who does hold that even perception is not a valid source of knowledge?

(A) Kaņāda

(B) Jayrāśi Bhatta

(C) Dinnāga

(D) Mahāvira

Correct Answer is B

16. Whose birthday is celebrated as "World Philosophers' Day"?

(A) Thales

(B) Pythagoras

(C) Socrates

(D) Plato

Correct Answer is C

17. Who declared, 'whenever the shadow of a man is equal to his height, the height of a pyramid is equal to its shadow' ?

(A) Thales

(B) Pythagoras

(C) Socrates

(D) Plato

Correct Answer is A

18. The Sophists did not propose

(A) 'Proper study of mankind is man.'

(B) 'Morality is mere convention.'

(C) 'Man is the measure of all things.'

(D) 'Knowledge is virtue.'

Correct Answer is D

19. The 'Socratic Irony' means

(A) Evolving dialogue. truth through

(B) Acting as that one knew less.

(C) Lecturing on the street corners.

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

Correct Answer is B

20. Plato proposed

(A) Idealistic Philosophy

(B) Materialistic Philosophy

(C) Dualism

(D) Monism

Correct Answer is C

21. Who is the exponent of 'Ontological argument'?

(A) St. Augustine

(B) St. Anselm

(C) St. Thomas Aquinas

(D) St. Theresa

Correct Answer is B

22. "Summa Theologica" was written by

(A) St. Paul

(B) St. Augustine

(C) St. Anselm

(D) St. Thomas Aquinas

Correct Answer is D

23. Who was the Philosopher invited by the Queen of Sweden ?

(A) Descartes

(B) Spinoza

(C) Leibniz

(D) Locke

Correct Answer is A

24. Arrange the following theories in order in which they appeared :

I. Theory of Ideas

II. Theory of Innate Ideas

III. Theory of Four Causes

IV. Theory of Verification

Codes:

(A) I, II, III, IV

(B) II, I, IV, III

(C) I, III, II, IV

(D) IV, II, III, I

Correct Answer is C

25. According to Descartes, to attain certainity, false opinions and traditional views are to be replaced with

(A) Scholarly opinion

(B) Faculty of reason

(C) Sense perception

(D) Scriptures

Correct Answer is B

26. Which is the independent monad according to Leibniz ?

(A) Soul

(B) Universe

(C) Space

(D) Time

Correct Answer is A

27. All knowledge, according to Locke, comes through two avenues?

(A) Reason and Ideas

(B) Sensation and Reflection

(C) Ideas and Experience

(D) Experience and Reason

Correct Answer is B

28. Hegel's Philosophy is known as

(A) Subjective Idealism

(B) Objective Idealism

(C) Absolute Idealism

(D) Continental Rationalism

Correct Answer is C

29. Who propounded the theory of 'Language Game'?

(A) Whitehead

(B) G.E. Moore

(C) Wittgenstein

(D) A.J. Ayer

Correct Answer is C

30. Concept of 'Category mistake' is advocated by

(A) William James

(B) Heidegger

(C) Gilbert Ryle

(D) G.E. Moore

Correct Answer is C

31. The principle of 'Either/or' is accepted by

(A) Logical positivism

(B) Existentialism

(C) Idealism

(D) Empiricism

Correct Answer is B

32. Nyāya Philosophy is propounded by

(A) Kanāda

(B) Śamkara

(C) Kapila

(D) Gautama

Correct Answer is D

33. Which of the following pairs is acceptable to the Cārvāka ?

(A) Air and Water

(B) Fire and Ether

(C) Perception and Inference

(D) Testimony and Inference

Correct Answer is A

34. Sāmkhya theory of causation is known as

(A) Brahma-Parināmvāda

(B) Prakriti-Parināmvāda

(C) Brahma-Vivartavāda

(D) None of the above

Correct Answer is B

35. The first evolute in the process of evolution in Sāmkhya is

(A) Mahat

(B) Ahańkāra

(C) Panchatanmātra

(D) Ten senses

Correct Answer is A

36. The concept propounded by of Apūrva is

(A) Sāmkhya

(B) Mimānsā

(C) Nyāya

(D) Vedānta

Correct Answer is B

37. "Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man" is the view of

(A) Radhakrishnan

(B) Vivekananda

(C) Aurobindo

(D) Rabindranath Tagore

Correct Answer is B

38. Who has given the concept of "Integral Yoga"?

(A) Vivekananda

(B) Aurobindo

(C) Gandhiji

(D) Radhakrishnan

Correct Answer is B

39. Gandhi means by Sarvodaya

(A) Uplift of some

(B) Uplift of majority

(C) Uplift of all

(D) None of these

Correct Answer is C

40. Who among the following is an Ionic Philosopher?

(A) Heraclitus

(B) Zeno

(C) Thales

(D) Anaxagoras

Correct Answer is A

41. Assertion (A): According to Descartes God is an eternal substance.

Reason (R): According to Descartes everything in nature has a mind or soul.

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

(B) Both (A) and (R) are individually true and (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 C

42. Assertion (A): The category of soul (jiva) is divided into five in Jainism.

Reason (R): Soul is an extended substance.

(A) (A) is correct, but (R) is wrong.

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

(C) Both (A) and (R) are correct.

(D) Both (A) and (R) are wrong.

Correct Answer is B

43. Assertion (A): Advaita accepts the standard of abādhitatva.

Reason (R): Advaita accepts the ontological reality of the world.

(A) Both (A) and (R) are false.

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true.

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

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

Correct Answer is D

44. The thinker who called for the 'revaluation of all values' is

(A) Nietzsche

(B) Heidegger

(C) Kant

(D) Sartre

Correct Answer is A

45. Care (Sorge) is the key concept in

(A) J.P. Sartre

(B) Nietzsche

(C) Heidegger

(D) Albert Camus

Correct Answer is C

Read the following passage and answer the questions from 46 to 50:

The thesis of James' Radical Empiricism is that "There is only one primal stuff or material in the world, a stuff of which everything is composed, and 'pure we call that stuff experience." James' Empiricism differs from traditional British Empiricism in his insistence that we remain within concrete experience, his insistence that "conjunctive and disjunctive relations are, when experienced, equally real." The world of facts as we experience them comprises a mosaic or set of mosaics and some of these directly experienced mosaics of plural facts appear to be connected, while others are experienced as disjunctives. The unity of the universe as a neat set of interconnected relations in an Absolute is false, said James, because direct experience informs us of a discontinuity of facts in a mosaic design. Thus Radical Empiricism claims that data in our experience show the universe to be pluralistic, comprised of facts which form neither a perfect unity nor any absolutely perfect relationship to one another. James termed this Metaphysical Pluralism a "mosaic philosophy."

46. For James the primary stuff is

(A) ordinary experience

(B) pure experience

(C) mixed experience

(D) imagination

Correct Answer is B

47. Radical Empiricism holds that everything of the world is composed of

(A) pure experience

(B) mixed experience

(C) ordinary experience

(D) imagination

Correct Answer is A

48. Radical Empiricism differs from British Empiricism in

(A) Preference for concrete experience.

(B) Conjunctive and disjunctive relations are equally real.

(C) Both the above are true.

(D) Both of them are false.

Correct Answer is C

49. The world of facts are

(A) mosaic

(B) sets of mosaic

(C) connected and disjunctive

(D) All the three are true

Correct Answer is B

50. Which one of the following is not correct for James ?

(A) The unity of the universe is false.

(B) The universe is pluralistic.

(C) Experience discontinuity. informs

(D) The universe is a neat set of inter-connected relations.

Correct Answer is D