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
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