UGC NET Second Paper (Philosophy) December 2007

UGC NET Second Paper (Philosophy) December 2007

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1. 'tena tyaktena bhunjithāh this saying is taken from:

(A) Kathopanişad

(B) Brhadaranyaka Upnişad

(C) Isopnişad

(D) Chandyogyopanişad

Correct Answer is C

2. Aśvamedha Yajña is a type of:

(A) Paśuyajña

(B) Iştiyajña

(C) Somayajña

(D) Rājasüyayajña

Correct Answer is D

3. Who has propounded the theory of pure being ?

(A) Heraclitus

(B) Thales

(C) Anaximander

(D) Parmenides

Correct Answer is D

4. Who claims that 'Man is the measure of all things'?

(A) Socrates

(B) Aristotle

(C) Kant

(D) Protagoras

Correct Answer is D

5. 'All knowledge is knowledge through Concepts' is the view of:

(A) Zeno

(B) Xenophanes

(C) Heraclitus

(D) Socrates

Correct Answer is D

6. Who has propounded the Number Theory ?

(A) Zeno

(B) Aristotle

(C) Kant

(D) Pythagoras

Correct Answer is D

7. Who has propounded atomism?

(A) Socrates

(B) Aristotle

(C) Democritus

(D) Thales

Correct Answer is C

8. That the World-stuff is water, is the view of:

(A) Socrates

(B) Democritus

(C) Thales

(D) Pythagoras

Correct Answer is C

9. Where does the notion of Ratha Rupaka (a simile of chariot) occur while discussing the conception of Atman ?

(A) Veda

(B) Nyaya Sutra

(C) Kathopanişad

(D) Ishäväsyopanişad

Correct Answer is C

10. Who concentrated upon and realized matter as Brahman ?

(A) Brighu of Taittiriyaupanişad

(B) Varuna

(C) Indra

(D) Shvetaketu

Correct Answer is A

11. Who has admitted Käma as ultimate value of life?

(A) Nyaya

(B) Jainism

(C) Cārvāka

(D) Buddhism

Correct Answer is C

12. Who has propounded the concept of Triratna?

(A) Nyaya

(B) Buddhism

(C) Jainism

(D) Yoga

Correct Answer is C

13. Which of the following elements does not exist in Cärväka system?

(A) Earth

(B) Fire

(C) Ether

(D) Air

Correct Answer is C

14. Knowledge according to Jainism, is capable of manifesting:

(A) itself

(B) everything other than itself

(C) itself and other things too

(D) neither itself nor the other things

Correct Answer is C

15. 'This being that arises' (Asmin Sati, idam Bhavati) is associated with:

(A) Asatkāryavāda

(B) Satkāryavāda

(C) Ajātivāda

(D) Pratitya Samutpādavāda

Correct Answer is D

16. Syädvāda propounds:

(A) Scepticism

(B) Relativism

(C) Empiricism

(D) Rationalism

Correct Answer is B

17. Which one of the following systems propounds that Sattva, rajas and tamas are the constituents of Prakrti?

(A) Advaita Vedānta

(B) Samkhya

(C) Nyaya

(D) Viśiştādvaita

Correct Answer is B

18. Who has propounded the doctrine of Arambhavāda ?

(A) Samkhya

(B) Nyaya

(C) Advita Vedanta

(D) Cārvāka

Correct Answer is B

19. Who has propounded internal aids (antaranga sädhana) to yoga ?

(A) Nāgārjuna

(B) Gandhi

(C) Patañjali

(D) Tagore

Correct Answer is C

20. Who has propounded Samavāya relation (inherence) between part and whole ?

(A) Nyaya

(B) Buddhism

(C) Jainism

(D) Cärväka

Correct Answer is A

21. Who has propounded Shunyavāda ?

(A) Nagarjuna

(B) Ashvaghosa

(C) Vasubandhu

(D) Dinnäga

Correct Answer is A

22. Who is the father of ignorance, according to Sri Aurobindo?

(A) Supermind

(B) Mind

(C) Overmind

(D) Highermind

Correct Answer is C

23. What is the link between Absolute and World, according to Sri Aurobindo ?

(A) Psychic Being

(B) Supermind

(C) Overmind

(D) Mind

Correct Answer is B

24. Who has propounded that, 'All life is essentially yoga'?

(A) Gandhi

(B) Vivekananda

(C) Sri Aurobindo

(D) J. Krishnamurti

Correct Answer is C

25. Who has propounded that truth and non-violence are the two sides of the same coin?

(A) Tagore

(B) Gandhi

(C) Iqbal

(D) Sri Aurobindo

Correct Answer is B

26. According to Sri Aurobindo soul or psychic element emerges between:

(A) Mind and Highermind

(B) Life and Mind

(C) Matter and Life

(D) Overmind and Supermind

Correct Answer is B

27. Who has propounded that 'Though all our knowledge begins in experience, it does not mean that it ends in experience'?

(A) Descrates

(B) Spinoza

(C) Hume

(D) Kant

Correct Answer is D

28. Who has propounded that the end does not justify the means ?

(A) Marx

(B) K.C. Bhattacharya

(C) Gandhi

(D) Cärväka

Correct Answer is C

29. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched ?

(A) Bradley - Appearance and Reality

(B) Hussrel - Existentialism and Humanism

(C) Spinoza- Ethics

(D) Russell - My philosophical development

Correct Answer is B

30. Which of the following pairs is not correct?

(A) Kant - Critique of Practical Reason

(B) Bradley - Ethical Studies

(C) Hegel - The Republic

(D) Mill – Utilitarianism

Correct Answer is C

31. What is the right sequence according to Sri Aurobindo ?

(A) Matter, Life, Mind, Higher Mind

(B) Higher Mind, Life, Matter, Mind

(C) Mind, Life, Matter, Higher Mind

(D) Life, Mind, Higher Mind, Matter

Correct Answer is A

32. What is the correct sequence of Triple transformation according to Sri Aurobindo ?

(A) Psychic Transformation, Spiritual Transformation and Supramental Transformation

(B) Spiritual Transformation, Psychic Transformation and Supramental Transformation

(C) Supramental Transformation, Psychic Transformation and Spiritual Transformation

(D) None of these

Correct Answer is A

33. What is the right sequence of Triple process of evolution according to Sri Aurobindo?

(A) Widening, Heightening and Integration

(B) Heightening. Widening and Integration

(C) Integration, Widening and Heightening

(D) None of these

Correct Answer is C

34. Which of the following pairs is correctly matched ?

(A) Theory of Idea – Aristotle

(B) Faith and Reason - Protagoras

(C) Atomism - Democritus

(D) Form and Matter – Plato

Correct Answer is C & D

35. Which of the following pairs is correctly matched ?

(A) K.C. Bhattacharya - Universal Religion

(B) Sri Aurobindo - Integral Advaitism

(C) Iqbal - Grades of Theoretic Consciousness

(D) Radhakrishnan - Religion of Man

Correct Answer is B & D

36. What is the correct sequence of the following?

(i) Anumiti

(ii) Pakşadharmatajñana

(iii) Vyāptijñana

(iv) Paramarśajñana

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

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

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

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

Correct Answer is C

37. The theory of error advocated by the Naiyāyikas is known as:

(A) Vivekakhyātivāda

(B) Akhyātivāda

(C) Anirvacaniyakhyātivāda

(D) Anyathākhyātivāda

Correct Answer is D

38. 'Sound is eternal because it is produced this argument involves the fallacy of:

(A) Bädhita

(B) Asiddha

(C) Viruddha

(D) Satpratipakşa

Correct Answer is B

39. What is the correct sequence of the followings?

(i) Nämarüpa

(ii) Avidyā

(iii) Samskara

(iv) Vijñāna

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

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

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

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

Correct Answer is D

40. Assertion (A): For Kant, the world is empirically real but transcendentally ideal.

Reason (R): Realism about the empirical world is supported by Kant's theory of space and time.

Identify which one of the following is the correct answer.

(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. (R) is false

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

Correct Answer is B

41. Assertion (A) For St. Anselm, deducing the existence of God from the concept of 'the greatest possible being' is certified by the authority of the Bible.

Reason (R): The greatest possible being, for St. Anselm, necessarily exists.

(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. (R) is false

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

Correct Answer is B

42. Assertion (A) The human soul is, for Descartes, wholly outside the natural order.

Reason (R): The human body is wholly inside the natural order.

(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, (R) is false

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

Correct Answer is B

43. Viśiştādvaita maintains that the ultimate reality is:

(A) Pure consciousness

(B) Material

(C) Organic unity of Cit and Acit

(D) Manifold only

Correct Answer is C

44. The supreme authority of morality, according to Kant is:

(A) Emotion

(B) Customs

(C) Authoritarianism

(D) Conscience

Correct Answer is D

45. According to Gandhi Satyagraha means:

(A) Sacrificing Truth

(B) Speaking the Truth

(C) Sticking to the Truth

(D) None of them

Correct Answer is C

46. Swami Vivekananda's thought is known as:

(A) Practical Yoga

(B) Integral Yoga

(C) Practical Vedanta

(D) Raja Yoga

Correct Answer is A

Read the following passage and answer the questions based on it:

"The very face of the truth is covered by a golden lid. O Pusan! uncover the lid, so that I may see the truth".

From the statement given above identify the correct alternatives mentioned in question numbers 47 and 48.

47. (A) The truth can be covered by falsity

(B) The truth cannot be covered by falsity

(C) Truth can be covered as well as not covered by falsity

(D) None of these

Correct Answer is C

48. (A) If the truth is covered by falsity it can be uncovered

(B) If the truth can be covered by falsity it cannot be uncovered

(C) If the truth is covered by falsity it may be uncovered or it may remain covered

(D) None of these

Correct Answer is C

Read the following passage and answer the questions based on it:

The 'persistent ideals of the race are at once the contradiction of its normal experience and the affirmation of higher and deeper experiences which are abnormal to humanity and only to be attained, in their organised entirety, by a revolutionary individual effort'.

- Sri Aurobindo

From the statement given above, identify the correct alternatives mentioned in question numbers 49 and 50.

49. (A) The normal experience of human race is opposed to the persistent ideals of the race

(B) The normal experience of human race is not opposed to persistent ideals of the race

(C) The normal experience of human race is opposed as well as unopposed to persistent ideals of the race

(D) None of these

Correct Answer is A

50. (A) The persistent ideals of the race can be attained by a revolutionary individual effort

(B) The persistent ideals of the race cannot be attained by a revolutionary individual effort

(C) The persistent ideals of the race may or may not be attained by a revolutionary individual effort.

(D) None of these

Correct Answer is D

UGC NET Second Paper (Philosophy) December 2006

UGC NET Second Paper (Philosophy) December 2006

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1. The Vedic conception of Rta is:

(A) Natural order alone

(B) Cosmic order

(C) Uniformity of nature alone

(D) Social order alone

Correct Answer is B

2. The Upaniṣadic mahavakya ‘Tatvamasi’ is stated in:

(A) Chandogya Upanişad

(B) Ken Upaniṣad

(C) Brhadárnya Upanişad

(D) Isopanisad

Correct Answer is A

3. On what grounds does the Indian materialist reject anumana as a pramāna?

(A) The invariable relation of Paksa with Sadhya and Hetu is not perceived.

(B) The invariable relation between Hetu and Sadhya is not perceived.

(C) The invariable relation between Sadhya and Paksa is not perceived.

(D) The invariable relation between Hetu and Paksa is not perceived.

Correct Answer is B

4. According to Carvaka philosophy, the only source of knowledge is:

(A) Sabda

(B) Anumana

(C) Pratyaksa

(D) Upamana

Correct Answer is C

5. Jaina is attributed to:

(A) The Buddha

(B) Lord Mahavir

(C) Guru Nanak

(D) Kabir

Correct Answer is B

6. Astangamārga is closely associated with:

(A) Buddhist thought

(B) Jaina philosophy

(C) Vaisesika philosophy

(D) Yoga philosophy

Correct Answer is A

7. Vyapti is a relation between:

(A) Paksha and Hetu

(B) Paksha and Sadhya

(C) sapakşa and Sadhya

(D) Hetu and Sadhya

Correct Answer is D

8. The Satkaryavāda of Samkhya leads us to accept:

(A) The production of something out of nothing.

(B) The manifestation of cause as an effect.

(C) The appearance of cause as an effect.

(D) The creation of an effect from the cause.

Correct Answer is B

9. According to Sâmkhya-yoga. Kaivalya is a State of:

(A) Sat alone

(B) Sat and cit

(C) Sat, cit ananda

(D) None of the above

Correct Answer is D

10. Mimamsā holds that:

(A) Knowledge is intrinsically invalid

(B) Knowledge is intrinsically validated

(C) Knowledge is at times intrinsically valid and also at times intrinsically invalid

(D) Knowledge is intrinsically valid

Correct Answer is D

11. The doctrine of mäyä in Advaita Vedanta advocates that the world is:

(A) Real

(B) Unreal

(C) Both real and unreal

(D) Neither real nor unreal but inexplicable

Correct Answer is D

12. The concept of nirguna Brahman is rejected by:

(A) Sankara

(B) Madhva

(C) Ramanuja

(D) Nimbarka

Correct Answer is B

13. According to Buddhism rebirth is due to:

(A) Samskarās

(B) Jati

(C) Avidya

(D) Bhava

Correct Answer is C

14. Reality in the Jaina philosophy is characterized by:

(A) Decay

(B) Permance

(C) Origination

(D) All the above

Correct Answer is D

15. Digambars and Svetambaras are the two sects followed by:

(A) Buddhist

(B) Jainas

(C) Muslims

(D) Hindus

Correct Answer is B

16. The doctrine of prapatti is unique in:

(A) Vişistadvaita philosophy

(B) Dvaita philosophy

(C) Advaita philosophy

(D) Yoga philosophy

Correct Answer is A

17. Four noble truths were propounded by:

(A) The Buddha

(B) Lord Mahavir

(C) Sankara

(D) Patanjali

Correct Answer is A

18. The doctrine of Pratitya Samutpāda follows from:

(A) Svabhavaváda

(B) Ksanikväda

(C) Anityavāda

(D) The second noble truth

Correct Answer is D

19. The gunas of prakriti according to samkhya system are:

(A) Evolutes

(B) Accidental attributes

(C) Fundamental attributes

(D) Modes of functioning

Correct Answer is C

20. In the samkhya system, prakriti is regarded as:

(A) a substratum of sattva, rajas and tamas

(B) a synthesis of sattva, rajas and tamas

(C) a conscious principle having sattva, rajas and tamas

(D) an inert substance having sattva, rajas and tamas

Correct Answer is A

21. Vivekananda accepts

(A) Gyan marg, Bhakti marg and Karma marg

(B) Gyan marg, Bhakti marg, Karma marg and Raj yoga

(C) Gyan marg, Bhakti marg and Raj yoga

(D) Karma marg, Raj yoga and Gyan marg

Correct Answer is B

22. The author of 'The Life Divine' is

(A) Ambedkar

(B) Gandhi

(C) J. Krishnamurti

(D) Sri Aurobindo

Correct Answer is D

23. What are the four fold order of knowledge according to Sri Aurobindo?

(A) Knowledge by identity, Knowledge by direct intimate contact, Knowledge by separative direct contact and a wholly separative knowledge by indirect contact

(B) Knowledge, intuition 'Buddhi Grahyam atindriyam', indriya, marnas and Buddhi

(C) Intellect, intuition, shruti and smriti

(D) Experience, shruti, smriti and tark

Correct Answer is A

24. 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 thereafter

(D) It takes birth at a definite place and time

Correct Answer is C

25. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched ?

(A) Personality, Hind Swaraj - Gandi

(B) The Life Divine, An Idealist view of life - Radhakrishnan

(C) Eastern religion and Western thought, Essays on the Gita - Sri Aurobindo

(D) Sadhana, Personality - Tagore

Correct Answer is C

26. Tagore's philosophy emphasises on both:

(A) Ramanuja's Vedanta and Vaishnavism

(B) Shankara's Vedanta and Vaishnavism

(C) Bhakti marg and Vaishnavism

(D) Madhvacharya and Vaishnavism

Correct Answer is not found

27. The concept of subject as Freedom was put forward by:

(A) M.N. Roy

(B) K.C. Bhattacharya

(C) Coomarswami

(D) Radhakrishnan

Correct Answer is B

28. What are the four grades of theoretic consciousness according to K.C. Bhattacharya ?

(A) Empirical, intuitive, transcendental and spiritual.

(B) Empirical, objective, subjective and transcendental

(C) Empirical, subjective, logical and objective

(D) Empirical, intuitive, logical and symbolic

Correct Answer is B

29. The Spaulding Chair of the Oxford University was given to :

(A) Tagore

(B) Radhakrishnan

(C) J. Krishnamurti

(D) K.C. Bhattacharya

Correct Answer is B

30. "All the wealth belongs to God and those who hold it are its trustees not possessors" was stated by:

(A) Gandhi

(B) Tolstoy

(C) Sri Aurobindo

(D) None of these

Correct Answer is C

31. According to Plato knowledge is:

(A) more real than ideas

(B) equally real with ideas

(C) less real than ideas

(D) none of the above

Correct Answer is C

32. Who among the following believes in form and matter?

(A) Pythagoras

(B) Democritus

(C) Aristotle

(D) Heraclitus

Correct Answer is C

33. Who among the following philosophers accepts the 'problem of evil'?

(A) William James

(B) Husserll

(C) Hegel

(D) St. Augustine

Correct Answer is A

34. Soul according to Descartes:

(A) Contradicts reason

(B) Is unrelated to reason

(C) Cannot contradict reason

(D) Is identical with reason

Correct Answer is C

35. Spinoza suggests that substance does not affect us by its mere existence, but through its:

(A) Qualities

(B) Modes

(C) Attributes

(D) None of the above

Correct Answer is B

36. Leibnitz defines substance or 'monad' as:

(A) active force

(B) physical objects

(C) mental objects

(D) none of the above

Correct Answer is D

37. Which of the following pairs is correctly matched ?

(A) Plato - Being

(B) Aristotle - Theory of causation

(C) Heraclitus - Theory of ideas

(D) Berkeley – Becoming

Correct Answer is B

38. According to Berkeley all things of the world are the ideas of the:

(A) mind

(B) body

(C) soul

(D) divine mind

Correct Answer is A

39. "World is ultimately meaningless and it is unnecessary to struggle with it" is suggested by:

(A) Kant

(B) Hume

(C) St. Thomas Aquinas

(D) Nietzsche

Correct Answer is D

40. The meaning of the proposition lies in the method of its verification is advocated by:

(A) Existentialism

(B) Pragmatism

(C) Logical Positivism

(D) Logical Atomism

Correct Answer is C

41. Who is the author of the book The Refutation of Idealism'?

(A) Russell

(B) Moore

(C) Wittgenstein

(D) Pierce

Correct Answer is A

42. Which among the following pairs is correctly matched ?

(A) Hegel-Meaning and use

(B) Kant - Dialectical method

(C) Wittgenstein - Critical philosophy

(D) Husserl – Intentionality

Correct Answer is D

43. Who has introduced the concept of logical syntax?

(A) Moore

(B) G. Ryle

(C) Wittgenstein

(D) Rudolf Carnap

Correct Answer is D

44. According to Husserl, the mind is nothing but an:

(A) Collection of ideas

(B) Spiritual substance

(C) Epi Phenomenon of the body

(D) None of the above

Correct Answer is D

45. The logic is the essence of philosophy'. This statement was given by:

(A) Aristotle

(B) Democratus

(C) Wittgenstein

(D) Russell

Correct Answer is D

46. Which of the following pairs is correctly matched ?

(A) Locke - Systematically misleading expression

(B) Leibnitz - Problem of freedom and philosophy

(C) Pierce - Will to power

(D) Ryle - Rejection of metaphysics

Correct Answer is D

47. The classification of the science is related to:

(A) Ionian school

(B) Pythagoras

(C) Kant

(D) Aristotle

Correct Answer is D

48. Who says that 'man as acting in the image of God to the extent that he exercises and seeks to fulfil his intelligent nature'?

(A) St. Augustine

(B) Thomas Aquinas

(C) Hegel

(D) Spinoza

Correct Answer is D

49. Meinog's views bear a striking resemblance to early views of:

(A) Russell

(B) Moore

(C) Wittgenstein

(D) Heidegger

Correct Answer is A

50. 'The highest and most satisfying form of human existence is that in which man exercises his rational faculties to the fullest extent?

(A) Pythagoras

(B) Socrates

(C) Aristotle

(D) Heidegger

Correct Answer is C