PAPER-II PHILOSOPHY Signature and Name of Invigilator


PHILOSOPHY
Paper II

1. The first man who made a map of the earth is

Thales


Anaximander


Heracliturs


Anaximenes

2. To whom the things in the world are in order and reduced to numbers

Thales


Anaximander


Heracliturs


Pythagoras

3. Socrates did not advocate that

Right thinking leads to right action.


No man is voluntarily bad or voluntarily good.


Doubt implies a doubter.


An un-examined life is not worth-living.

4. Plato did not propose that

Ideas have independent existence.


Ideas are real.


Ideas are the copies of things.


Ideas are numberless.


5. Which of the following is not advocated by Aristotle


Virtue is a state of character


To know what is virtue is to be virtuous


Virtue lies in a mean


Virtue must be combined with practical wisdom.

6. Who first propounded the ontological argument for the existence of God

St. Augustine


St. Anselm


Thomas Aquinas


Rene Descartes

7. Which one of the following is not acceptable to Thomas Aquinas

Causal regress cannot be infinite.


A perfect being is the source of various perfections in the world.


The existence of God is a selfevident truth for man.


The source of contingent things must lie in a necessary being.



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



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



10. Which of the following is not acceptable to Berkeley

have an idea of self.


have an idea of God.


have ideas of sensible qualities.


have ideas of pain and pleasure.



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.



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



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.



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 unity of apperception


and 3


and 2


3 and 4


(D)All the above



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 and Truth 4. Spinoza

Codes

I II III IV

1 2 3 4


4 1 2 3


3 4 1 2


2 3 4 1


16. Who says that mind in the beginning is a 'tabula a 'dark chamber', or an 'empty cabinet'

(A)Locke


(B)Berkeley


(C)Hume


(D)Russell



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



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



19. Which of the following is not acceptable to Locke

(A)Self is known through intuition.


existence is a case of demonstrative knowledge.


(C)Objects in the external world have independent existence.


perception mind has direct access to the objects in the external world.



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


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



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.


the table is blue, then the book is red.


believe that the table is blue.



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



24. According to Ryle, Descarte's mind-body dualism suffers from

(A)Contradiction


(B)Ambiguity


(C)Category mistake


(D)Pictorial thinking



25. According to Wittgenstein, philosophical problems arise because of

1. Craving for generality

2. Essentialism

3. Pictures embedded in language.

4. Surface grammar



Codes

only


and 2


2 and 3


3 and 4



26. Samhita consists of

(A)Mantras Brahma





(C)ads


(D)All of the above



27. In the turiya state, Atman is

(A)Conscious


(B)Unconscious


(C)Subconscious


(D)Non-dual



28. In Jainism, the following lacks Kayatva (magnitude)

(A)Dharma


(B)Adharma


(C)Kala


(D)Pudgala



29. Vijñanavada stands for

(A)Subjective Idealism


(B)Objective idealism


(C)Absolute idealism


(D)Realism



30. According to Vaisesika, 'humanity' in human beings is due to

(A)Particularity


(B)Inherence


(C)Coherence


(D)Generality


31. According to Samkhya, the first evolute is

(A)Mahabhuta


(B)Tanmatras


(C)Mahat


(D)Ahamkara



32. According to whom "Yoga is the cessation of the modification of Citta"

Patanjali


Vijñanabhiksu


Isvarakrsna


Vasubandhu



33. The unique feature of Pravakara Mimamsa is


Jñatatavada


Pratityasamutpadavada


Triputipratyakavada


Anekantavada



34. Nirguna Brahman is the ultimate truth according to


(A)Ramanuja


(B)Madhva


(C)kara


(D)Nimbarka



35. For Ramanuja, liberation is to attain

(A)Samipya


(B)Sannidhya


(C)Sayujya


(D)Salokya



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. Sa kara

II. Jivanmukti 2. Ramanuja

III. Astangamarga 3. Buddha

IV. Apthaksiddhi 4. Mahavira

Codes

I II III IV

4 1 3 2


1 4 2 3


2 3 1 4


3 4 1 2



37. Match items under List I with items under List II and select the correct answer

List I (Doctrine) List II (System)

I. Praktipariamavada 1. Advaita Vedanta

II. Vivartavada 2. Sa khya

III. Svabhavavada 3. Visi tadvaita

IV. Brahmanpaiamavada 4. Carvaka


Codes

I II III IV


4 3 2 1


2 1 4 3


2 3 4 1


4 1 2 3


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 Ramanuja

2 and 3


and 2


and 3


and 3



39. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion and the other labelled as Reason

Assertion (A):Abhava is an independent category in Nyaya­Vaise ika.

Reason(R): Abhava is perceived by sense organs.

In the context of the above two statements, which one of the following is correct


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


(B)Both and are true, but is not the correct explanation of


is true, but is false.


is false, but is true.



40. Which one of the following statements is not true

(A)Carvaka is a Satkaryavadin.


(B)Buddhism advocates anattavada.


(C)Madhva accepts jivanmukti.


(D)Sainkara advocates mayavada.



41. The concept of Manav devata is advanced by

(A)Swami Vivekananda


(B)Rabindranath Tagore


(C)Sri Aurobindo


(D)B.R. Ambedkar



42. According to whom "Man is the architect of his own destiny."

(A)B.R. Ambedkar


Krishnamurti


(C)Tagore


(D)Gandhi




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



44. The champion of 'integral yoga' is

Krishnamurti


(B)Vivekananda


(C)M.N. Roy


(D)Sri Aurobindo



45. An Idealist View of Life is written by

(A)Radhakrishnan


Krishnamurti


(C)Tagore


(D)K.C. Bhattacarya



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

4 3 2 1


4 3 1 2


3 4 1 2


1 2 3 4



47. Iqbal believes that self is immortal, because

takes birth and rebirth.


exists before taking birth in human body.


survives death and is immortal.


takes birth at a definite place and time.



48. According to whom intuition is the way of knowing Reality

(A)Krishnamurti


(B)K.C. Bhattacarya


(C)Radhakrishnan


(D)Iqbal



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



50. 'Man-making Education' is advocated by

(A)Gandhi and Vivekananda


(B)Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo


(C)Gandhi and Ambedkar


(D)Vivekananda only