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UGC NET December 2021 June 2022 Philosophy — Solved Previous Year Questions

100 previous-year questions from UGC NET December 2021 June 2022 Philosophy (UGC NET) — each with the correct answer and a clear explanation. Use it as an answer key, or practise the full paper below.

  1. According to Merleau Ponty, perception is: · Ans: B
  2. Which one of the following presents Kierkegaard's philosophy appropriately? · Ans: A
  3. Wittgenstein is convinced that the particular employment of words are deemed to be one of the following: · Ans: A
  4. According to P. F. Strawson, the concept of a person that is embodied mind is a primitive concept and through this argument, Strawson rejected one of the following: · Ans: A
  5. What is multiculturalism? · Ans: A
  6. Who propounded the ethics of ambiguity? · Ans: C
  7. What is the concern of the ethics of Levinas? · Ans: A
  8. Dworkin proposed that rights should be thought of as: · Ans: A
  9. Which one of the following is consistent with Spinoza? · Ans: A
  10. The division of qualities into primary and secondary is unphilosophical. Who held this view? · Ans: B
  11. Which of the following is not acceptable to Kant? · Ans: D
  12. According to whom - 'One idea cannot perceive another idea. Therefore there should exist a soul which perceives ideas'. · Ans: C
  13. Which of the following statement is incompatible with Hegel's view? · Ans: D
  14. In Vaisesika metaphysics, which dravyas can be both niravayava and savayava? · Ans: A
  15. Which one among the following is NOT a means of Saktigraha? · Ans: B
  16. Which system of Vedanta postulates the conception of three grades of Satta (Sattatraya)? · Ans: C
  17. By which relation, the relation between a pot and its colour is related with the pot according to the Vaisesikas? · Ans: D
  18. Which one among the following is the direct knowledge of the thoughts of others in Jaina epistemology? · Ans: C
  19. In Vedic literature Rta is equated with: · Ans: C
  20. By begetting off-spring one can repay: · Ans: A
  21. According to the Carvakas fire burns because: · Ans: C
  22. Which school is of the opinion that there is no contradiction in holding the judgement that a ghatah is and is not at the same time? · Ans: C
  23. In Nyaya epistemology, by which sannikarsa do we perceive the relation between my hand and the pen I am writing with? · Ans: B
  24. Which of the following philosophers advocate a distinction between Anumana and Arthapatti pramana? · Ans: B
  25. In Nyaya philosophy of language Isvareccha is: · Ans: D
  26. Which type of hetvabhasa is committed by the anumana: Sabdah nityah sabdatvat? · Ans: B
  27. Which one among the following is NOT a characteristic of sat hetu? · Ans: B
  28. Which type of cause is Kapalasamyoga in the production of ghatah? · Ans: B
  29. What is the nature of jiva (individual self) according to Ramanuja? · Ans: D
  30. Kumarila's advocacy of pramanas was endorsed by which of the following systems? · Ans: C
  31. Figures of categorical syllogism are determined on the basis of: · Ans: C
  32. Which one of the following is the obversion of the proposition "All residents are voters"? · Ans: D
  33. Which one of the following does not fall under the category of Fallacies of Relevance? · Ans: D
  34. If A and B are true statements and X, Y and Z are false statements, determine which one of the following is true. · Ans: A
  35. Which one of the following is the correct combination of moods in the fourth figure? · Ans: D
  36. Which one of the following represents the relation between propositions provided below? Some pens are red. Some pens are not red. · Ans: D
  37. Consider the following syllogism and identify the fallacy involved in it: Some friends are rich. No rich persons are helpful. Therefore, No helpful persons are friends. · Ans: A
  38. Consider the following syllogism and identify the fallacy in it. No dogs are bipeds. No cats are bipeds. Therefore, No cats are dogs. · Ans: C
  39. Identify the contraposition of the proposition "Some philosophers are not-scientists" · Ans: A
  40. Who said that "I don't care of God, if he is anything but truth"? · Ans: D
  41. Which of the following philosophers conceptualized God as "personal being" or "supreme person". · Ans: D
  42. Who among the following Contemporary Indian Thinkers expresses the view that self knowledge is equivalent to knowing oneself in relation? · Ans: C
  43. Who among the following is the ancient Greek pluralist? · Ans: C
  44. Which of the following is philosophically unacceptable to St Anselm? · Ans: D
  45. "The so called cause is nothing but one event immediately succeeded by another event, the succeeded event may be called effect. That is all". Who among the following holds this view? · Ans: C
  46. Which of the following statement is incompatible with Descartes? · Ans: C
  47. What of the following is incorrect as far as Rationalism is concerned (as a Philosophical theory)? · Ans: D
  48. Berkeley is called as Idealist because: · Ans: B
  49. "Men may come and men may go, but the man-type, the human race goes on forever". Whose view is this? · Ans: B
  50. Who held the view that 'God is the Unmoved Mover'. · Ans: D
  51. Which of the following is the correct view of Anaxagoras? · Ans: D
  52. "Knowledge is possible : It is concerned with the general and typical, not the particular and accidental". Who among the following holds this view? · Ans: C
  53. "The impulse towards pleasure, if too predominant, defeats its own aim". Who among the following holds this view? · Ans: C
  54. Who amongst the following criticized Cartesian Rationalism? · Ans: D
  55. Which of the following aim is NOT conducive to Immanuel Kant? · Ans: C
  56. Who among the following is inclined to accept Transcendental Idealism? · Ans: B
  57. Who is the chief architect for the reconciliation between Rationalism and Empiricism? · Ans: D
  58. For Kant, what is the faculty that coordinates sensations and perception? · Ans: B
  59. Which of the following position is incompatible with the view of Berkeley? · Ans: C
  60. What is the place of God in Plato's philosophy? · Ans: C
  61. Which one of the following is unacceptable to David Hume? · Ans: D
  62. Who holds the following view about emotive theory? "Only the propositions of the mathematics and empirical sciences have sense, and all other propositions are without senses". · Ans: C
  63. "Self-realization is the highest good". This view is maintained by: · Ans: B
  64. Consider the following and select the code stating Bahiranga Limbs of Astanga yoga: · Ans: B
  65. Lokasamgraha stands for: · Ans: D
  66. We can perceive, according to Nyaya, the external substances by: · Ans: B
  67. Who among the following admits both Jivanmukti and Videhamukti · Ans: C
  68. Which of the following text is composed by Maulana Azad? · Ans: B
  69. Who among the following are votaries of caturvarnya system? · Ans: C
  70. Consider the following statements with reference to conjunction and choose the correct combination: · Ans: C
  71. Consider the following with reference to distribution of terms in categorical propositions: · Ans: D
  72. Match List I with List II · Ans: B
  73. Match List I with List II · Ans: C
  74. Match List I with List II · Ans: B
  75. Match List I with List II · Ans: B
  76. Match List I with List II · Ans: B
  77. Match List I with List II · Ans: C
  78. Match List I with List II · Ans: B
  79. Match List I with List II · Ans: C
  80. Match List I with List II · Ans: C
  81. Consider the following and select the code consistent with Kant's Categorical Imperative: · Ans: C
  82. Consider the following and select the correct sequence from the codes given below: · Ans: B
  83. Select the correct sequence: · Ans: A
  84. Consider the following explanation of the fallacies: · Ans: A
  85. Given below are two statements: · Ans: A
  86. Consider the following statements with reference to Iqbal's intuition. · Ans: A
  87. Given below are two statements: · Ans: C
  88. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R · Ans: A
  89. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R · Ans: D
  90. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R. Answer with reference to Mill's Utilitarianism. · Ans: A
  91. What do you understand as the import of this paragraph? · Ans: C
  92. "Know yourself" has obscured "Take care of yourself" because: · Ans: B
  93. Secular tradition advocates one of the following: · Ans: D
  94. According to Michel Foucault: · Ans: C
  95. According to Foucault, social morality implies one of the following: · Ans: C
  96. In the name of ecologism, deep movement has various deviations which are one sided and laid emphasis on: · Ans: B
  97. What does Arne Naess intend to convey in this paragraph? · Ans: D
  98. Deep Ecology movement is fortified by one of the following: · Ans: C
  99. According to Naess, Deep Ecology movement involves: · Ans: A
  100. According to Naess, ecosophy is: · Ans: B

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