UGC NET Second Paper (Philosophy) December 2009

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1. According to Aristotle, God is the

(A) material cause of the Universe

(B) efficient cause of the Universe

(C) instrumental cause of the Universe

(D) final cause of the Universe

Correct Answer is D

2. Which one of the following is correctly matched ?

(A) Nyaya - Viparitakhyāti

(B) Advaitavedänta - Vivekakhyāti

(C) Prābhākara Mimāṁsā - Akhyāti

(D) Bhatta Mimämsä – Anyathākhyāti

Correct Answer is D

3. 'The Human Cycle' is written by

(A) Tagore

(B) Gandhi

(C) Radhakrishnan

(D) Sri Aurobindo

Correct Answer is D

4. Rajaśuya Yajña is performed

(A) to make the king more powerful

(B) to swear one as king

(C) to bring good to the king

(D) to win a war

Correct Answer is B

5. Match List-I (Philosophers) with List-II (Works) and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists:

List-I	List-II
(a) Plato	I Parmenides
(b) Aristotle	II Discourse on Method
(c) Berkeley	III Nicomechian Ethics
(d) Descartes	IV Principles of Human Knowledge

Codes:

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

(A) I II III IV

(B) I IV II III

(C) I III II IV

(D) I III IV II

Correct Answer is C

6. G. E. Moore refutes the following doctrine of the idealists:

(A) Time is unreal

(B) To be is to be perceived

(C) Reality is spiritual

(D) All relations are internal

Correct Answer is B

7. The expounder of dialectical method in early Greek Philosophy was

(A) Socrates

(B) Aristotle

(C) Zeno

(D) Plato

Correct Answer is A

8. According to Plato

(A) God is the cause of the ideas

(B) Ideas are the cause of God

(C) Ideas are equal to God

(D) Ideas are material

Correct Answer is A

9. According to St. Augustine, human soul is

(A) An eternal substance identical with the Cosmos.

(B) A material substance characterized by consciousness.

(C) An individual substance

(D) A rational substance suited for ruling the body

Correct Answer is D

10. The proposition "I think", according to Descartes, is self-verifying because

(A) Thinking is my essence

(B) It is a logical truth

(C) Doubting it, confirms it

(D) It is a necessary truth

Correct Answer is C

11. Which one of the following is not true of Spinoza ?

(A) The physical can have no effect on the mental.

(B) Psycho-physical interactionism.

(C) God is at once both mental and material.

(D) The mental can have no effect on the physical.

Correct Answer is B

12. Which one of the following principles is not true of Leibnitz ?

(A) The principle of sufficient reason

(B) The law of non-contradiction

(C) The indiscernibility of identicals

(D) The identity of indiscernibles

Correct Answer is D

13. The main aim of Berkeley in refuting abstract idea was

(A) to criticize Rationalism

(B) to criticize Locke

(C) to refute Matter

(D) to refute Idealism

Correct Answer is C

14. The three steps by which one can rise to the heights of the Absolute Spirit are

(A) History, Religion and Philosophy

(B) History, Theology and Poetry

(C) Poetry, Religion and History

(D) Art, Religion and Philosophy

Correct Answer is A

15. The proposition, basic to Idealism, which Moore rejects is

(A) Ideas are no less real than matter

(B) Esse est percipii (To be, is to be perceived)

(C) The thing-in- itself is non-empirical

(D) Cogito, ergo Sum (I think therefore I am)

Correct Answer is B

16. Which one of the following is not true of Dasein, according to Heidegger?

(A) It is concernfully engaged with the world.

(B) It is essentially self-conscious.

(C) It is always an actuality, never a possibility.

(D) Its real nature is revealed in its temporality.

Correct Answer is B

17. The relation between meaning and its use refers, in later Wittgenstein, to the fact that

(A) A sentence becomes meaningless if it is not used for a very long time.

(B) Both private and public use of a sentence makes it meaningful.

(C) A meaningful sentence makes use of rules of syntax and semantics

(D) The meaning of a sentence consists entirely in its public, rule-governed use.

Correct Answer is B

18. Ahimsa has been treated as a Vrata in

(A) Buddhism

(B) Jainism

(C) Gandhism

(D) Both in Buddhism and Jainism

Correct Answer is D

19. "A word has two types of Vrtti (power) for conveying its meaning." This view is held by

(A) The Naiyāyikas

(B) The Alamkärikas

(C) The Grammarians

(D) None of the above

Correct Answer is C

20. Hotā in vedic sacrifice is

(A) The main priest of Rkveda

(B) The main priest of Atharvaveda

(C) The main priest of Yajurveda

(D) None of the above

Correct Answer is A

21. God according to Nyaya is

(A) Material cause of the world

(B) Efficient cause of the world

(C) Both material and efficient cause of the world

(D) Neither efficient nor material cause of the world

Correct Answer is B

22. Which one of the following schools hold that sufferings are mainly of three types?

(A) The Buddhist

(B) The Jaina

(C) Sämkhya

(D) Mimāṁsā

Correct Answer is A

23. Who propounds that there is internal difference in God?

(A) Shamkara

(B) Rāmānuja

(C) Kapil

(D) Patanjali

Correct Answer is B

24. What is the intermediate principle in Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy?

(A) Psychic Being

(B) Consciousness force

(C) Super mind

(D) Higher mind

Correct Answer is A

25. Which one is the correct sequence of the following?

(A) Manas, Ahaṁkāra, Pañcajnanendriya

(B) Pancajnanendriya, Pancakarmendriya, Pancatanmatras

(C) Prakrti, Mahat, Manas

(D) Mahat, Manas, Ahaṁkāra

Correct Answer is C

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

(A) Supramental, Psychic and Spiritual

(B) Spiritual, Psychic and Supramental

(C) Psychic, Spiritual and Supramental

(D) Psychic, Supramental and Spiritual

Correct Answer is C

27. The correct sequence of four conditions of an intelligible sentence according to Nyaya is

(A) Sannidhi, Tatparya, Ākānkşā and Yogyāta

(B) Sannidhi, Yogyāta, Tatparya and Ākānkşä

(C) Ākānkşā, Yogyāta, Sannidhi and Tätparya

(D) Yogyāta, Sannidhi, Tätparya and Ākānkşa

Correct Answer is C

28. The correct sequence of astasiddhis is

(A) Anima, Mahima, Laghima, Prapti, Prakāmya, Vasitva, Isitva, Yatrakamāvasāyitva

(B) Laghima, Anima, Mahima, Prāpti, Prakāmya, Yatrakamāvasāyitva, isitva, Vasitva

(C) Yatrakamāvasāyitva, isitva, Vasitva, Mahima, Laghima, Anima, Prāpti, Prakāmya

(D) Mahima, Laghima, Anima, Prāpti, Prakāmya, Vasitva, isitva, Yatrakamāvasāyitva

Correct Answer is A

29. Which one is the correct sequence of the following?

(A) Viksipta, Ekāgra, Niruddha

(B) Kşipta, Viksipta, Mudha

(C) Ekāgra, Niruddha, Kşipta

(D) Viksipta, Kşipta, Ekāgra

Correct Answer is D

30. Which one is the correct sequence of the following?

(A) Parmānusarmyoga, Is'varecchā, Jagatasṛști

(B) Anumiti, Sisādhayişā, Sidhyābhāva

(C) Is'varecchā, Parmānusamyoga, Dvyaņuka

(D) Is'varecchā, Trayaņuka, Dvyaņuka

Correct Answer is A

31. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer by using the codes given below the lists:

List-I (Philosopher)	List-II (Works)
(i) Sankara	1. Satadusiņi
(ii) Vacaspati Misra	2. Visņutattva Vinirnaya
(iii) Madhva	3. Bhāmati
(iv) Vedanta Desika	4. Drgdrisya Viveka
	5. Pañcadaśi

Codes:

  (i)(ii)(iii)(iv)

(A) 4 3 2 1

(B) 3 2 1 5

(C) 2 1 5 4

(D) 1 5 3 4

Correct Answer is C

32. Which one of the following is not correctly matched ?

(A) Tripitaka - A Buddhist text

(B) Kiranāvali - A Vaišeşika text

(C) Tattvārthādhigamasūtra - A Mimämsä text

(D) Tattvacintāmaņi - Nyaya text

Correct Answer is B

33. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct one.

List-I		List-II
(a) Kşiti	(i) Bhūtadravya only
(b) Manas	(ii) Both Bhūtadravya & Mürtadravya
(c) Ākāśa	(iii) Mūrtadravya only
(d) Ātmā	(iv) Neither Bhūtadravya nor Mürtadravya

Codes:

    (a) (b) (c) (d)

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

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

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

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

Correct Answer is A

34. The sense-object contact needed for perceiving the abhāva of pot on the ground, according to Nyāya is

(A) Viśeşaņatā

(B) Samyukta Višeşaņatā

(C) Yogyānupalabdhi

(D) Samavāya

Correct Answer is C

35. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer by using the codes given below the lists:

List-I	List-II
(i) Indeterminism	1. Kumarila
(ii) Determinism	2. Buddhism
(iii) Pratitya Samutpāda	3. Spinoza
(iv) Jatisaktivāda	4. Charwaka

Code:

(A) (ii)-1 (iii)-3 (iv)-2 (i)-4

(B) (iii)-2 (iv)-3 (i)-1 (ii)-4

(C) (iv)-3 (i)-1 (ii)-2 (iii)-4

(D) (i)-4 (ii)-3 (iii)-2 (iv)-1

Correct Answer is C

36. Which one of the following is not correctly matched ?

(A) Dehātmavāda - Cārvāka

(B) Nairātmyavāda - Buddha

(C) Ātmavāda - Nyaya

(D) Arambhavāda – Sāmkhya

Correct Answer is C

37. Which one of the following statements adequately sums up Heraclitus Philosophy?

(A) All things originate from water.

(B) The universe is composed of five great elements.

(C) All things are in a state of flux.

(D) The originating cause of the universe is air.

Correct Answer is C

The following question (Question Nos. 38 to 47) consist of two statements, one labelled as "Assertion (A)" and the other labelled as "Reason (R)". Please examine these two statements carefully and decide if the Assertion (A) and the Reason (R) are individually true and if so, whether the Reason R is a correct explanation of the Assertion A. Choose your answers using the codes 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).

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

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

38. Assertion (A): Samkara criticised the Nyaya theory of Khyātivāda.

Reason (R) : According to Samkara effect must exist in the cause before its manifestation.

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).

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

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

Correct Answer is B

39. Assertion (A): According to Buddha Samyak Drşti is necessary for Nirvana.

Reason (R): Knowledge alone can remove suffering.

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).

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

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

Correct Answer is B

40. Assertion (A): According to Moore, Mill has committed a naturalistic fallacy.

Reason (R): Mill has defined a natural property 'goodness' in terms of another natural property pleasure.

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).

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

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

Correct Answer is B

41. Assertion (A): Sunyata itself is called Nirvāņa in Madhyamika Philosophy.

Reason (R) : Sunyata is of the nature of cessation of Prapañca.

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).

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

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

Correct Answer is B

42. Assertion (A): Human selves are in bondage.

Reason (R) : The law of karma is inexorable

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).

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

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

Correct Answer is A

43. Assertion (A): The whole of being cannot be plurality according to Zeno.

Reason (R) : For Zeno to say that one and the same whole is both infinitely small and infinitely great is absurd.

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).

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

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

Correct Answer is A

44. Assertion (A): Ramanuja does not accept any proof for the existence of God.

Reason (R): Ramanuja asserts that God's existence has to be accepted on the basis of Veda.

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).

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

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

Correct Answer is A

45. Assertion (A): The Mimamsa accepts a plurality of selves or ātmans.

Reason (R) : Each ätman or self is responsible for its own actions and has to enjoy the fruits of its own actions.

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).

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

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

Correct Answer is A

46. Assertion (A): In Gandhian ethics the golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration.

Reason (R) : Conscience is not the same thing for all.

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).

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

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

Correct Answer is A

47. Assertion (A): Gitā does not preach renunciation of all actions.

Reason (R) : Man must act while living in the world.

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).

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

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

Correct Answer is A

Read the following passage and answer Question Nos. from 48 to 50.

Kautilya's Arthaśāstra is in the main intended for kings and ministers (rāja dharma), the focus being the administrative and political success leading to the welfare of people. Material welfare is its main concern in fifteen great sections, it deals with matters as follows:

Discipline, government, superintendents, law, repression of criminals, conduct of courtiers, the elements of Sovereignty, Six fold policy of action (peace, neutrality etc), vices to be avoided, war, dissension, capture of the fortified city, and secret means to injure the enemy.

48. The main aim of Kautilya Arthashastra is

(A) Administrative and Political success

(B) Welfare of the people

(C) Social and Ethical success

(D) Legal and Religious success

Correct Answer is B

49. Arthashastra does not deal with matters related to

(A) Liberation

(B) Punishments of the criminals

(C) The conduct of the courtiers

(D) Sovereignty of the country

Correct Answer is A

50. The main concern of Arthashastra is

(A) Welfare of the animals

(B) Material welfare of the State

(C) Spiritual growth of the citizens

(D) The religious welfare of the citizens

Correct Answer is B