UGC-NET Exams:Question Paper-2^nd

1.    According to Upanishadic philosophy means of liberation is--

A   knowledge

B   devotion

C   action

D    both knowledge and action

2.    According to Upanishadic philosophy cause of bondage is

A   identity of soul and body

B   difference of  jiva and Brahman

C   difference of  Atman and Brahman

D   all the three

3.According to Upanishadic philosophy cause of rebirth is

A  only actions with desires

B  both with and without desires

C  only actions which are prohibited

D  none of these

4. Concept of Rta is given by

A  Veda

B  Buddhism

C  Jainism

D  Samkhya

5. Liberation according to Upanishads is

A  cessation of misery

B  cessation of the cycle of rebirth

C  state of bliss

D  all the three

6.Samsara is due to

A  karma

B process of creation

C  self-manifestation of Brahman

D  all the three

7 Brahman is the ------------------- cause of the universe

A  material

B  efficient

C  both

D  none

8 To get rid of Devrna one has to perform------------

A  yajnas

     B  study  scriptures

C  procreate

D  teach and preach others

9. Ashvamedha yajna is performed

A for the development of the kingdom

B  for longevity

C  for children

D  to declare the king victorious

10. Shreyas is the -------------- for people

A  pleasant things

B  good things

C  neutral things

D  none of these

11. The sequence of karmas is

A  prarabdha, sanchit,sanchiyaman

B  sanchit, prarabdha, sanchiyaman

C  sanchiyaman,prarabdha,sanchit

D  prarabdha,sanchiyaman,sanchit

12.’ Understanding maketh nature out of the materials it does not

       make’  is said by

A  Locke

B Berkeley

C Hume

D  Kant

13.’ Existence precedes essence’  is the statement made by

A  Husserl

B  Hegel

C  Kant

D Sartre

14.’Let there be light and there was light’ is written in-----

A  Kuran

B  Veda

C  Bible

D  None of these

15 ‘I was oblized to destroy knowledge in order to make room for

        Faith’  was said by

A  Spinoza

B   Aquinas

C   Leibnitz

D  Kant

16 According to Upanishads Brahman is

A  Immanent

B  Transcendent

C  both

D  none

17. Jivanmukta is he who is

A  enlightened yet embodied

B  enlightened , without body

C  renunciate

D  none

18.Videhamukti happens

A  after death

B before death

C  after the cessation of samsara

D  none of these

19 The process of creation is

A prana,anna,manas,vijnana,ananda

B  manas,prana , vijnana,ananda,anna

C  anna,prana, manas,vijnana,ananda

D  ananda,vijnana,manas,prana,anna

20 Creation,according to Upanishads is the

A  Self-manifestation of Brahman

B  self-manifestation of Ishvara

C  self-manifestation of the Devatas

D  natural development 

 ---what is our idea of necessity,when we say that two objects are necessarily connected together? Upon this head I repeat,what I have often had occasion to observe,that as we have no idea that is not derived from an impression,we must fint some impression that gives rise to this idea of necessity,if we assert we have really such an idea.In order to this,I consider in what objects necessity commonly supposed to lie;and,finding that it is always ascribed to causes and effects,I turn my eye to two objects supposed to be placed in that relation and examine them in all the situations of which they are susceptible.I immediately perceive that they are contiguous in time and place,and that the object we call cause precedes the other we call effect.In no one instance can I go any further,nor is it possible for me to discover any third relation between these objects.I therefore enlarge my view to comprehend several instances,where I find like objects always existing in like relations of contiguity and succession.The refiection on several instances only repeats the same objects;and therefore can never give rise to a new idea.But upon further inquiry I find that the repetition is not in every particular the same,but produces a new impression,and by that means the idea which I at present examine.For,after a frequent repetition,Ifind that upon the appearance of the objects the mind is determined by custom to consider its usual attendant,and to consider it in a stronger light upon account of its relation to the first object.It is this impression,then,or determination,which affords me the idea of necessity.

21  The author wants to

A  refute the idea of necessary connection

B  assert the idea of necessary connection

C  assert that idea of necessary connection is based on reason

D none of these

22 According to the author the reason behind the idea of necessary  connection is

A  contiguity of time and place

B  contiguity of time

C  contiguity of place

D  none

23 According to the author mind is determined by

A  belief

B  hypothesis

 C  custom

D  none

24 According to the author the sole source of knowledge is

A  idea

B impression

C both

D none of these

25 According to the author the cause of the idea of necessary connec

      tion is

A  impression of necessary connection

B  idea of necessary connection

C  frequent repetition

D none of these

26.’Brahmavid Brahmaiva Bhavati’ means

A  identity of jiva and Brahman

B identity of Brahman and Ishvara

C identity of jiva and creation

D identity of Brahman with creation

27.’I think therefore I exist’ is said by

A  Leibnitz

B  Kant

C  Descartes

D  Hume

28.Which one is not written by Kant

A  Critique of Pure Reason

B  Critique of Practical Reason

C  Treatise on Human Nature

D  Critique of Judgement

29. Tractatus Logico Philosophicus is written by

A    A J Ayer

B    Rudolf Karnap

C    Wittgenstein

D     Bradley

30.’ Reason is the only source of knowledge’ according to

A     empiricists

B      rationalists

C      logical positivists

D      none of these

31. Which one is not the right match

A    Brahma Parinamvad     -     Ramanuja

B    Brahma  Vivartvada      -      Shankara

C    Prakriti Parinamvad      -       Samkhya

D  Natural Development    -     Nyaya

31. The Ultimate Reality according to Shri Aurobindo is-----

A .  God

b.   Matter

c.    Absolute Brahman

d.   None of these

32. ‘Language,Truth and Logic’ is written by

A     Wittgenstein

B     Ayer

C     Karnap

D  Husserl

33. Which one is not the correct match .For all the four

       Pramanya is ----

A    Nyaya -  paratah

B    Samkhya – svatah

C    Mimamsa  -  paratah

D    Bauddha -  svatah

34. Which one is not the true match

A    Charvaka   -   perception

B    Bauddha   - perception,inference,verbal testimony

C    Samkhya   - perception,inference,verbal testimony

D   Nyaya        - perception,inference,verbal testimony,comparison

35. Assertion:

 a.     Violence is not recommended by Gandhiji

       Reason:

   b.   Others are also integral part of our own being

A .    both are true and b is true reason for a

B .    both are true but b is not true reason for a

C .    both are false

D .    a is true but b is false

36.Assertion:

 A.    An atheist doesn’t believe in the existence of God

     Reason:

R.   because we cannot know God

a.   both are true and b is true reason for a

b.   both are true but b is not true reason for a

c.   a is true but b is false

d.   both are false

37.’Life Divine’ is written by

a.   Tagore

b.   Aurobindo

c.   Gandhiji

d.   Vivekanand

38.According to ‘theory of verification’ only those things exist of    

      Which we can have

a.      Empirical knowledge

b.     Rational knowledge

c.      Intuitional knowledge

d.     Idea

39. According to materialists only

 A   matter is real

B  only mind is real

C  both mind and matter are real

D  none of these

40.An idealist thinker is he, who believes in the existence of only

A  matter

B  sense impressions

C  ideas

D none

41.’ Cosmos is created of water’ according to

A      Aneximander

B      Thales

C       Anaximenes

D      none of these

42. ’Synthetic a priori judgement’ is possible’ according to

A     Hume

B     Kant

C     Leibnitz

D    none of these

43.’Knowledge is virtue and virtue is knowledge,’ according to

 A   Plato

B   Aristotle

C   Socrates

 D   none of these

44. ‘Theory of Ideas’ was propounded by

A      Aristotle

B       Plato

C       Socrates

 D     Aquinus

45. Aristotle has included efficient,formal and final causes into

A    material cause

B    final cause

C    efficient cause

D    formal cause

46.’ God is unmoved mover’ according to

A     Plato

B     Aristotle

C     Socrates

 D    Anselm

47. To prove the existence of God,ontological argument was given by

A    Erigena

B   Anselm

C   Augustine

D  none of these

48.Conceptualism was propounded by

A   Aquinus

B   Anselm

C   Augustine

D  none of these

49.To prove the existence of God ,cosmological argument was given

      By

A   Plato

B   Augustine

C   Erigena

D   none of these

    50. ‘Every proposition is partially true and partially false’ according

         to

A     Ayer  

B     Wittgenstein

C     Bradley

 D   none of these

Answers :

1-a,2-d,3-a,4-a,5-d,6-a,7-c,8-a,9-a,10-b,11-a,12-d,13-d,14-c,15-d,16-c,17-a,18-a,19-c,20-a,21-22-a,23-c,24-b,25-c,26-a,27-c,28-c,29-c,30-b,31-c,32-b,33-c,34-b,35-a,36-a,37-b,38-a,39-a,40-c,41-b,42-b,43-c,44-b,45-d,46-b,47-b,48-a,49-b,50-a.

  Paper 3^rd :

 1.  According to Parmenides------- is Real.

   a.Becoming

   b.Being

   c.both

   d.none

 2.  According to Heraclitus -------is Real.

   a.Being

   b.Becoming

   c.both

   d.none

   

   3.The philosopher,who differentiated between phenomena   and Noumena was ------

   a.Descartes

   b.Berkeley

   c.Locke

d.Kant

4.Hegel has given the concept of ------

a.Being (thesis)

b.Essence(antithesis)

c.Notion(synthesis)

d.All the three

5.Bradley has refuted ------

a.The division of primary and secondary qualities

b.The division of appearance and Reality

c.Anti-intellectualism

d.None of these

6.According to Bradley the concept of space presents ------

a.Conceptual antinomy

b.Fallacy of infinite regress

c.Both

d.None

7.Who hasn’t accepted the duality of chit and achit

   a. Jainism

   b. Samkhya

  c.  Madhva

   d.Shankara

 8. ‘ Time has no extension in space’ is asserted by

  a.  Jainism

  b.  Samkhya

  c.  Nyaya

  d.  None of these

    9.‘Effect exists in its cause prior to its existence’ is the theory  

     Known as ----

   a.  Satkaryavada

  b.   Asatkaryavada

   c. Parinamavada

 d.  Vivartavada

 10. Space & time are the apriori categories of mind is said by---

  a.Locke

  b.Kant

 c. Hume

 d. Leibnitz

 11. Who has advocated the only reality of the parmarthika satta?

a.Shankara

b.Samkhya

c.Ramanuja

d.Nyaya

12.According to Mimamsakas---

a.Validity is intrinsic but invalidity is extrinsic

b.Invalidity is intrinsic but validity is extrinsic

c.Both is intrinsic

d.Both is extrinsic

13.’Atadvati atadprakaraka’ knowledge is

a.Unreal knowledge

b.Knowledge of something in different form

c.Illusory knowledge

d.False knowledge

14.The theory of viparitakhyativada is propounded by -----

a.Kumarila Bhatta

b.Prabhakara

c.Naiyayikas

d.Buddhism

15.According to Kumarila error is -----

a.Real knowledge of the real thing

b.Unreal knowledge of the real thing

c.Unreal knowledge of the unreal thing

d.None of these

16.According of Buddhism error is -----

a.Real knowledge of the unreal thing

b.Real knowledge of the real thing

c.Unreal knowledge of the unreal thing

d.None of these

17.‘Sense object contact is perception’ is the definition given by----

a.Buddhism

b.Nyaya

c.Sankara

d.Mimamsakas

18.‘Any knowledge in which,another knowledge is not instrument is perception’ is the definition given by ------

a.Vedanta

b.Buddhism

c.Nyaya

d.Samkhya

19.Inference is ---

a.Relative knowledge

b.Independent knowledge

c.Both

d.None of these

20.The word invariable concomitance means------

a.In the presence of one another one is also present

b.In the absence of one another one is also absent

c.Both

d.None of these

21.Prama is knowledge of something ----

a.Which was not known earlier

b.Which is not refuted after being known

c.Both

d.None of these

22.Sama vyapti is ----

a.We can infer one from another

b.Another from one

c.Both

d.None of these

23.The school which doesn’t believe in the concept of rta is ------

a.Vedanta

b.Nyaya

c.Charvaka

d.Mimamsa

24.Nihshreyas is -------

a.Dharma

b.Kama

c.Artha

d.Moksha

25.The sequence of purusarthas is ----

a.Arth,dharma,kama,moksha

b.Dharma,artha,kama,moksha

c.Moksha,artha,dharma,kama

d.Kama,dharma,artha,moksha

26.By the word nishkama in the Gita means -----

a.Detachment from action

b.Detachment in action

c.Shun action

d.None of these

27.In the Gita svadharma is -------

a.Any duty

b.Duty as per one’s inclination

c.Duty assigned by heredity

d.None of these

28.The description of the origin of the four varnas is like this in the purusha sukta of rgveda

List 1^st                           List 2^nd

a. kshatriya                1  mouth

b. Brahmana               2 thighs

c. Vaishya                    3 arms

c. Shudra                     4 legs

     A  B  C  D

a.  1,  2, 4, 3

b.  3,  1, 2, 4 

c.   1,  2, 3, 4

d.  4,  3,  2, 1                        

29.In which ashram trivarga is fulfilled?

a.Brahmacharya

b.Grihastha

c.Vanprastha

d.Sanyasa

  30.Which one is wrong?

    According to Jain tenets triratnas are -------

a. Samyaka Darshan

      b. Samyaka jnana

       c.Samyaka charitra

       d.Samyaka vyayama

31.The difference between duty and right is -------

a.Duty is obligatory

b.Right depends on our moral conscience

c.Duty has always legal constraints

d.Right helps in the development of society

32.Wisdom,courage,temperance & justice are the virtues given by ---------

a.Socrates

b.Plato

c.Aristotle

D.None of these

33.‘An eye for an eye and tooth for tooth’ is a kind of -------

A.Reformative theory

B.Retributive theory

C.Preventive theory

D.None of these

34.According to Kant moral laws are ------

a.A priori

b.A posteriori

c.Both

d.None

35.Moral duties are -----

a.Ends-in-itself

b.Means of some purposes

c.Both

d.None

36.Categorical imperatives are those in which

a. there aren’t any condition laid down

b.based on condition

c.based on the needs of the moral agent

d.none of these

37.According to hedonists,pleasure is the ------

a.Means of life

b.Supreme end of life

c.Ideal of life

d.None of these

     38.According to utilitarianism,there is utility of only ------

a.Happiness

b.Altruistic pleasure

c.Greatest happiness of the greatest number

d.None of these

39.According to Bentham utility of anything must be decided by the -----

a.Quantity of happiness

b.Quality of happiness

c.Both

d.None

40.Anybody is responsible for his work if --------

a.He is free in doing that work

b.He is interested in that work

c.He is bound by social norms

d.None of these

     41. Which one is the right sequence for four figures

         1.   M  P    2.   P    M   3.  P   M   4.  M    P

         S    M         M   S          S   M        M    S

          S     P         S    P           S   P         S      P

A        1    ,   2  , 3 ,  4

B         1   ,    3  ,  2  ,4

C          1   ,    3  ,  4  , 2

D          4   ,    2  ,  3  ,  1

42. Two propositions are contradictory when

A    both of them cannot be true

B     both of them cannot be false

C     both of them cannot be true and both of them cannot be false

D     none  of these

43. Conversion is invalid in

A   all the four propositions

B   only in O propositions

C   only in A and O propositions

D   only in E and O propositions

44.According to existential import

A  there isn’t any member in particular propositions

B  there is only one member in particular propositions

C  there is at least one member in particular propositions

D there is at least one member in general propositions

45.Which one is not true

A there must be three terms in a categorical syllogism

B middle term must be distributed in at least one premise

C any term which is not distributed in premises cannot be

   Distributed in conclusion

D syllogism with two negative premises is valid

  46.   P . Q  is true

A   if both are true

B   if both are false

C  if p is true and q is false

D  if p is false and q is true

47.The basis of Buddhism is -----

A.Sutta Pitak

b.Vinay Pitak

c.Abhidhamma Pitak

d.All the three

48.Ashrav,according to Jainism is ---

A.Attraction of karmic particles

b.Repulsion of karmic particles

c.Cessation of karmic particles

d.None of these

49.Which one is called Sanatan Dharma?

a.Buddhism

b.Jainism

c.Islam

d.Hinduism

50.Islam is -------religion

a.Monistic

b.Dualistic

c.Pluralistic

d.Absolutistic

51.The origin of Christianity is from -----

A.Zoroastrianism

b.Judaism

c.Scientific Revolution

d.None of these

52.‘The world is the totality of facts,not of things’ is said by ----

a.Russell

b.Ayer

c.Wittgenstein

d.Moore

53. ‘Whereof we cannot speak thereof we must pass over in silence’

   Is said by

A   Ayer

B   Karnap

C   Wittgenstein

D   none of these

54.Metaphysics is refuted by

A   rationalists

B   empiricists

C   logical positivists

D   none of these

55.The main point of Russell’s ‘theory of descriptions’ is to show that the phrases like ‘the present king of France’ etc. indicate -------

a.nothing,although they appear to name one such object

b.something,which varies according to reference

c.facts,not objects

d.none of these

56.The theory of ‘performative utterences’ was given by ----

a.Wittgenstein

b.Ayer

c.Russell

d.Austein

57.Phenomenology ,is the study of -----

a.Appearances

b.Reality

c.Intentionality of Consciousness

d.Consciousness

58.Which one is not written by Husserl?

a.Cartesian Meditations

b.Logical Investigatons

c.Ideas

d.Ethics

59.The positive aspect of phenomenology is related to-----

a.Unveil the real nature of appearances

b.To know the pure form of consciousness

c.know the essences of phenomena

d.All the three

60.Which one is not related to phenomenology?

a.Theory of epoche

b.Theory of reduction

c.Theory of transcendental ego

d.Theory of pre-established harmony

61.According to the theory of epoche ----

a.We don’t have to negate the existence of the world

b.We don’t have to prove our general knowledge as meaningless

c.It is merely change of attitude towards what is already known and review of that

d.All the three

62.The system in which understanding and interpretation of text is being studied,is called -----

a.Existentialism

b.Logical positivism

c.Hermeneutics

d.Phenomenology

63.Gadamer was subscriber of ---

A.Analytical philosophy

b.Existentialism

c.Hermeneutics

d.Phenomenology

64.Shankara’s philosophy is non-dualistic because it asserts the concept of

a.Absolute Brahman

b.Qualified Brahman

c.Monism

d.Identity-in difference

65.The concept of Brahman in Ramanuja’s philosophy is------

a.Saguna

b.Nirguna

c.Absolute

d.Relative

66.The philosophy of Madhva is ---

a.Qualified dualism

b.Unqualified dualism

c.Absolutism

d.Monism

67.The philosophy of Nimbarka is called Dvaitadvaita or Bhedabheda because ----

a.Nimbarka believes in identity-and-difference

b.Nimbarka believes in identity-in-difference

c.Nimbarka believes in qualified Brahman

d.None of these

68.According to Vallabha,the only means of salvation is -----

a.Karma

b.Jnana

c.Bhakti

d.All the three

69.My ‘Experiments With Truth’ was written by----

a.Aurobindo

b.Vivekananda

c.Gandhi

d.K C Bhattacharya

70.‘Truth is God and God is Truth’ is said by ----

a.Ram krishana Paramhansa

b.Vivekananda

c.Gandhi

d.Aurobindo

71.God is truth and ------ according to Gandhiji.

a.Love

c.Compassion

c.Humanity

d.Tolerance

72.Ahimsa,according to Gandhiji,is to-------

a.Not to harm others

b.Not to harm others and love them

c.To remain detached from others

d.None of these

73.Gandhiji favoured ---

a.Communist thinking

b.Socialist thinking

c.Trusteeship of Wealth

d.None of these

74.The sarvodaya principle of Gandhiji means that------

a.Greatest happiness of the greatest number

b.Greatest welfare of all

c.Greatest welfare of individual

d.None of these

75. The tenets of Islam is based on

A .   Veda

B .   Kuran

C .   Bible

D .   Avesta

Answers:

1-b,2-b,3-d,4-d,5-a,6-a,7-d,8-a,9-a,10-b,11-a,12-a,13-b,14-a,15-a,16-a,17-b,18-c,19-a,20-c,21-c,22-c,23-c,24-d,25-b,26-b,27-c,28-b,29-b,30-d,31-a,32-b,33-b,34-a,35-a,36-a,37-b,38-c,39-a,40-a,41-c,42-c,43-b,44-c,45-d,46-a,47-d,48-a,49-d,50-a,51-b,52-c,53-c,54-c,55-a,56-d,57-c,58-d,59-d,60-d,61-d,62-c,63-c,64-a,65-a,66-b,67-a,68-c,69-c,70-c,71-a,72-b,73-c,74-b,75-.b