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PAPER-II
PHILOSOPHY
PHILOSOPHY
Paper – II
Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions, each question carrying two
(2) marks. Attempt all the questions.

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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.

2. For Russell, the father of the line of philosophers was
(A) Thales
(B) Socrates
(C) Plato
(D) Anaximander

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

4. ‘Socratic Irony’ means
(A) Lecturing on the street corners.
(B) Ready to face death for the sake of truth.
(C) Evolving truth through dialogue.
(D) Acting as that one knew less.

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.

6. According to Empiricists, all knowledge springs from
(A) Experience
(B) Understanding
(C) God
(D) Reason

7. According to Leibnitz, soul is
(A) not a monad
(B) an independent monad
(C) supreme monad
(D) in the ‘pineal gland’

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

9. Summa Theologica was written by
(A) Saint Augustine
(B) Saint Anselm
(C) St. Thomas Aquinas
(D) None of the above

10. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding was written by
(A) Descartes
(B) Spinoza
(C) Leibnitz
(D) Locke

11. Spinoza’s monistic pluralism reduces individuals to the following :
(A) Idea
(B) Attribute
(C) Substance
(D) Mode

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

13. Who said, “The world at every stage is both a product and a prophecy” ?
(A) Socrates
(B) Plato
(C) Locke
(D) Hegel

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.