UGC NET Second Paper (Philosophy) December 2011
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1. The first man who made a map of the earth is
(A) Thales
(B) Anaximander
(C) Heracliturs
(D) Anaximenes
Correct
Answer is B
2. To whom the things in the world are in order and reduced
to numbers ?
(A) Thales
(B) Anaximander
(C) Heracliturs
(D) Pythagoras
Correct
Answer is D
3. Socrates did not advocate that
(A) Right thinking leads to right action.
(B) No man is voluntarily bad or voluntarily good.
(C) Doubt implies a doubter.
(D) An un-examined life is not worth-living.
could not
find the correct answer
4. Plato did not propose that
(A) Ideas have existence. independent
(B) Ideas are real.
(C) Ideas are the copies of things.
(D) Ideas are numberless.
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find the correct answer
5. Which of the following is not advocated by Aristotle ?
(A) Virtue is a state of character
(B) To know what is virtue is to be virtuous
(C) Virtue lies in a mean
(D) Virtue must be combined with practical wisdom.
Correct
Answer is B
6. Who first ontological propounded argument existence of
God? the for the
(A) St. Augustine
(B) St. Anselm
(C) Thomas Aquinas
(D) Rene Descartes
Correct
Answer is B
7. Which one of the following is not acceptable to Thomas
Aquinas ?
(A) Causal regress cannot be infinite.
(B) A perfect being is the source of various perfections
in the world.
(C) The existence of God is a self- evident truth for man.
(D) The source of contingent things must lie in a
necessary being.
Correct
Answer is C
8. "In the nature of things nothing contingent is
admitted, but all things are determined by the necessity of divine nature to
exist and act in a certain way," is the view of
(A) Descartes
(B) Spinoza
(C) St. Augustine
(D) Thomas Aquinas
Correct
Answer is B
9. Who among the following advocates that in every true
proposition the predicate is contained in the subject?
(A) Descartes
(B) Kant
(C) Hume
(D) Leibnitz
Correct
Answer is D
10. Which of the following is not acceptable to Berkeley
?
(A) We have an idea of self.
(B) We have an idea of God.
(C) We have ideas of sensible qualities.
(D) We have ideas of pain and pleasure.
Correct
Answer is C
11. Which of the following statements is not true ?
(A) According to Descartes, there is pre-established harmony.
(B) Berkeley advocates immaterialism.
(C) According to Hume, impressions are atomic.
(D) Kant was roused from his dogmatic slumber by Hume.
Correct
Answer is C
12. Who among the following thinkers makes use of the
principle 'there must be at least as much reality in the efficient and total
cause as in the effect of that cause,' in his proofs for the existence of God?
(A) Leibnitz
(B) Spinoza
(C) Aquinas
(D) Descartes
Correct
Answer is D
13. According to Berkeley, 'esse est percipi' means
(A) Existence is one of the basic qualities of perception.
(B) Existence is an inference from the fact of perception.
(C) Existence is different from perception.
(D) Existence consists in perception.
Correct
Answer is D
14. Which among the following are necessary
presuppositions of the possibility of objective knowledge according to Kant ?
1. Synthetic a priori Judgement.
2. Space and time
3. Categories of understanding
4. Transcendental apperception unity of
(A) 1 and 3
(B) 1 and 2
(C) 2, 3 and 4
(D) All the above
Correct
Answer is D
15. Match the items under List I with the items under
List - II and find out the correct answer.
|
List – I (Books) |
List – II (Authors) |
|
I An Essay Concerning Human
Understanding |
1. Russell |
|
II. The Principles of Human
Knowledge |
2. Locke |
|
III. Ethics |
3. Berkeley |
|
IV. An Inquiry into Meaning
Truth and |
4. Spinoza |
Codes:
I II III IV
(A) 1 2 3 4
(B) 4 1 2 3
(C) 3 4 1 2
(D) 2 3 4 1
Correct
Answer is D
16. Who says that mind in the beginning is a 'tabula
rasa', a 'dark chamber', or an 'empty cabinet'?
(A) Locke
(B) Berkeley
(C) Hume
(D) Russell
Correct
Answer is A
17. According to Hume, the belief that similar causes
must give rise to similar effects is based on
(A) Reason
(B) Intuition
(C) Induction
(D) Custom
Correct
Answer is D
18. Who among the following thinkers maintains that the
truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent in it ?
(A) Russell
(B) William James
(C) Ayer
(D) Moore
Correct
Answer is B
19. Which of the following is not acceptable to Locke ?
(A) Self is known through intuition.
(B) God's existence is a case of demonstrative knowledge.
(C) Objects in the external world have independent
existence.
(D) In perception mind has direct access to the objects in
the external world.
Correct
Answer is D
20. "Metaphysics exists, if not as a science,
as natural disposition of man" is the view of
(A) Hume
(B) Kant
(C) Ayer
(D) Russell
Correct
Answer is B
21. Who among the following thinkers maintains that
meaning of a statement consists in the method of its verification ?
(A) Russell
(B) Schlick
(C) Ayer
(D) Moore
Correct
Answer is C
22. According to Russell, which of the following
propositions is not truth- functional?
(A) The table is blue, but the book is red.
(B) Either the table is blue, or the book is red.
(C) If the table is blue, then the book is red.
(D) I believe that the table is blue.
Correct
Answer is D
23. 'The whole consisting of language and the actions
into which it is woven' is called by Wittgenstein.
(A) Form of life
(B) Language game
(C) Family resemblance
(D) Ostensive definition
Correct
Answer is B
24. According to Ryle, Descarte's mind- body dualism
suffers from
(A) Contradiction
(B) Ambiguity
(C) Category mistake
(D) Pictorial thinking
Correct
Answer is C
25. According to Wittgenstein, philosophical problems
arise because of:
1. Craving for generality
2. Essentialism
3. Pictures language. embedded in
4. Surface grammar
Codes:
(A) 1 only
(B) 1 and 2
(C) 1, 2 and 3
(D) 1, 2, 3 and 4
Correct
Answer is C
26. Samhitā consists of
(A) Mantras
(B) Brahmanas
(C) Upanisads
(D) All of the above
Correct
Answer is A
27. In the turīya state, Atman is
(A) Conscious
(B) Unconscious
(C) Subconscious
(D) Non-dual
Correct
Answer is D
28. In Jainism, the following lacks Kāyatva (magnitude):
(A) Dharma
(B) Adharma
(C) Kāla
(D) Pudgala
Correct
Answer is D
29. Vijñānavāda stands
for
(A) Subjective Idealism
(B) Objective idealism
(C) Absolute idealism
(D) Realism
Correct
Answer is A
30. According to Vaiśesika, 'humanity' in human beings
is due to
(A) Particularity
(B) Inherence
(C) Coherence
(D) Generality
Correct
Answer is A
31. According to Samkhya, the first evolute is
(A) Mahābhuta
(B) Tanmatras
(C) Mahat
(D) Ahaṁkāra
Correct
Answer is C
32. According to whom "Yoga is the cessation of the
modification of Citta"?
(A) Patanjali
(B) Vijñānabhiksu
(C) Iśvarakrsna
(D) Vasubandhu
Correct
Answer is A
33. The unique feature of Prāvākara Mimāṁsā is
(A) Jñātatāvāda
(B) Pratityasamutpādavāda
(C) Triputipratyaksavada
(D) Anekāntavāda
Correct
Answer is A
34. Nirguna Brahman is the ultimate truth according to
(A) Rāmānuja
(B) Madhva
(C) Śamkara
(D) Nimbarka
Correct
Answer is C
35. For Rāmānuja, liberation is to attain
(A) Sāmīpya
(B) Sannidhya
(C) Sāyujya
(D) Sālokya
Correct
Answer is D
36. Match items under List I with items under List II
and select the correct answer:
|
List – I (Doctrine) |
List – II (Propounder) |
|
I Triratna |
1. Śamkara |
|
II. Jivanmukti |
2. Rāmānuja |
|
III. Astängamarga |
3. Buddha |
|
IV. Aprthaksiddhi |
4. Mahāvira |
Codes:
I II III IV
(A) 4 1 3 2
(B) 1 4 2 3
(C) 2 3 1 4
(D) 3 4 1 2
Correct
Answer is A
37. Match items under List I with items under List II
and select the correct answer:
|
List – I (Doctrine) |
List – II (System) |
|
I. Prakrtiparināmavāda |
1. Advaita Vedānta |
|
II. Vivartavāda |
2. Samkhya |
|
III. Svabhāvavāda |
3. Viśistādv- aita |
|
IV. Brahmanparināmavāda |
4. Cārvāka |
Codes:
I II III IV
(A) 4 3 2 1
(B) 2 1 4 3
(C) 2 3 4 1
(D) 4 1 2 3
Correct
Answer is B
38. Consider the following statements:
1. Souls are bound on account of their ignorance.
2. The soul as to remove its karmic obstacles.
3. Knowledge is the immediate cause of liberation.
Which of these statements are correct according to Rāmānuja ?
(A) 1, 2 and 3
(B) 1 and 2
(C) 2 and 3
(D) 1 and 3
Correct
Answer is A
39. Given below are two statements, one labelled as
Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Abhāva is an independent category in Nyaya- Vaiśesika.
Reason (R) : Abhāva perceived by sense organs. is
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
40. Which one of the following statements is not true?
(A) Cārvāka is a Satkāryavādin.
(B) Buddhism anattavada. advocates
(C) Madhva accepts jivanmukti.
(D) Śainkara advocates māyāvada.
Correct
Answer is C
41. The concept of Manav devatā is advanced by
(A) Swami Vivekānanda
(B) Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
(C) Sri Aurobindo
(D) B.R. Ambedkar
Correct
Answer is B
42. According to whom "Man is the architect of his
own destiny."?
(A) B.R. Ambedkar
(B) J. Krishnamurti
(C) Tagore
(D) Gandhi
Correct
Answer is C
43. "All wealth belongs to God, and those who
hold it are trustees, not possessors." Who said it ?
(A) Ambedkar
(B) Gandhi
(C) Tagore
(D) None of the above
Correct
Answer is D
44. The champion of 'integral yoga' is
(A) J. Krishnamurti
(B) Vivekananda
(C) M.N. Roy
(D) Sri Aurobindo
Correct
Answer is D
45. An Idealist View of Life is written by
(A) Radhakrishnan
(B) J. Krishnamurti
(C) Tagore
(D) K.C. Bhattacārya
Correct
Answer is A
46. Match items under List I with items under List II
and select the correct answer:
|
List – I (Author) |
List – II (Works) |
|
I Sri Aurobindo |
1. Secrets of the Self |
|
II. Tagore |
2. Absolute and the alternative
Forms |
|
III. K.C. Bhattacarya |
3. Sadhana |
|
IV. Iqbal |
4. Life Divine |
Codes:
I II III IV
(A) 4 3 2 1
(B) 4 3 1 2
(C) 3 4 1 2
(D) 1 2 3 4
Correct
Answer is B
47. Iqbal believes that self is immortal, because
(A) It takes birth and rebirth.
(B) It exists before taking birth in human body.
(C) It survives death and is immortal.
(D) It takes birth at a definite place and time.
Correct
Answer is C
48. According to whom intuition is the way of knowing
Reality ?
(A) Krishnamurti
(B) K.C. Bhattacarya
(C) Radhakrishnan
(D) Iqbal
Correct
Answer is D
49. Which of the following are the three mantras for
Ambedkar ?
(A) Caste, Varna and Karma
(B) Karma, Destiny and Rebirth
(C) Educate, Organise and agitate
(D) None of the above
Correct
Answer is C
50. 'Man-making advocated by Education' is
(A) Gandhi and Vivekananda
(B) Vivekananda Aurobindo and Sri
(C) Gandhi and Ambedkar
(D) Vivekananda only
Correct
Answer is D
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