Paper 1 · Communication
UGC NET December 2023 (08.12.2023) Shift-II
From the communication viewpoint, Adi Shankara's philosophical concept gives primacy to:
APersonal ego
BMaterialistic desire
CSelf-consciousness ✓ Correct
DSocial conflicts
Correct answer: (C) Self-consciousness — Adi Shankara's concept gives primacy to self-consciousness, so that is the answer.
Explanation
★Adi Shankara's concept gives primacy to self-consciousness, so that is the answer.
★Adi Shankara founded the Advaita Vedanta school of thought.
★Advaita holds that the true self is pure consciousness.
★From the communication viewpoint this places self-consciousness first.
★The self realising its own conscious nature is central.
★So the concept gives primacy to self-consciousness.
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