BPSC Exam 2025: Integrated 70th Combined Main (Written) Competitive Examination, Optional, Philosophy
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PHILOSOPHY
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1. Which one of the following is a 5. Concept of ‘First Sin’ has been
characteristic of logical positivism ? mentioned in which text ?
(A) New testament
(B) Sense-experience is the main source (B) Old testament
of knowledge
(C) Quran
(C) Elimination of metaphysics
(D) Vedas
(D) All the above
6. Which is the Chief Text of Charvaka
2. Which one of the following gives much
system ?
importance to law instead of individual ?
(A) Nyaya Sutra
(A) Constitutionalism
(B) Brahaspatya Sutra
(B) Revolution
(C) Nyaya Bindu
(C) Terrorism
(D) Vedartha Sangraha
(D) Satyagraha
7. Principle of ‘Pancha-Kakar’ is given by
3. Who has given Theory of Monads ?
whom ?
(A) Locke
(A) Hinduism
(B) Ayer
(B) Sikhism
(C) Liebnitz
(C) Islam
(D) Green
(D) Buddhism
4. Which one of the following is not an ideal 8. Who has done Copernicus revolution in
of Democracy ?
(A) Equality (A) Hegal
(B) Liberty (B) Kant
(C) Tolerance (C) Plato
(D) Fraternity (D) Descartes
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9. Who is the founder of Judaism ? 13. Theory of ‘Negative Facts’ is given by
whom ?
(A) Zarthustra
(A) Russell
(B) Moses
(B) Moore
(C) Ismile
(C) Ayer
(D) Jesus Christ
(D) Wittgenstein
10. Which one of the following is a terrorist
14. Who is known as the father of Western
activity ? philosophy ?
(A) Assassination (A) Aristotle
(B) Hijacking (B) Becon
(C) Kidnapping (C) Kant
(D) All the above (D) Descartes
11. Theory of Syadavada is associated with 15. Does Purva-Mimamsa accept ‘Vidhi’ and
whom ? ‘Nishedha’ ?
(A) Nyaya Darshan (A) Not clear
(B) Samkhya Darshan (B) Uncertain
(C) Jaina Darshan (C) True (Yes)
(D) Yoga Darshan (D) Not Known
12. Religious conversion is of how many 16. What is the foundation of Constitutionism ?
type ?
(A) Literacy
(A) 3
(B) Freedom
(B) 2
(C) Agreement of policy matters
(C) 5
(D) 4 (D) Equality
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17. Which theory is accepted by Spinoza ? 20. Which one of the following is known as
‘Prasthan Trayi’ ?
(A) Interactionism
(A) Veda, Purana and Smriti
(B) Parallelism
(B) Ramayan, Mahabharata and
Upanishad
(D) None of these (C) Upanishad, Bhagvadgita and
Brahma-Sutra
18. Who has denied law of causality ? (D) None of the above
(A) Lord Buddha
21. Which one of the following is a
(B) Kapil characteristic of mysticism, according to
William James ?
(C) Mahaveer
(A) Noetic quality
(D) Charvaka
(B) Tolerance
19. ‘Modernity has entered into Indian (C) Faith
character and society by it has done so
(D) None of these
through assimilation not replacement.’
This statement is
22. The book entitled, ‘Appearance and
(A) Not known Reality’ is written by whom ?
(A) Berkley
(B) Not clear
(B) Green
(C) Right
(C) Hegal
(D) Wrong (D) Bradley
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23. Is Sikhism a revealed religion ? 27. In a Democratic State, Government is
based on the ________ of the people.
(A) Doubtful
(A) Votes
(B) Not known
(B) Will
(C) No
(C) Understand
(D) Yes
(D) None of these
24. Who gives importance to violence ? 28. Who has introduced seventh category in
the philosophy of Vaisheshika ?
(A) Fascism
(A) Kanad
(B) Gandhism
(B) Gangesh
(C) Theocracy
(C) Udayan
(D) Socialism
(D) Prashastapada
25. Which one of the following is an 29. Who among the following has given
advocate of unity of religions ?
(A) Ramkrishna Paramhans religious language ?
(B) Vivekananda (A) A.J. Ayer
(C) Bhagwan Das (B) Plato
(D) Iqbal (C) William James
(D) Moore
26. ‘Philosophy of religion is a philosophical
inquiry into the nature, function, value 30. Hegal belongs to which one of the
and truth of religious experience’ – Who
following ?
said these words ?
(A) Objective idealism
(A) John A. Nicholson
(B) W.K. Right (B) Subjective idealism
(C) D.M. Edwards (C) Absolute idealism
(D) John Hick (D) None of these
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31. ‘Submission to God’ is the meaning of 35. ‘Political obligation entails the notion of
revolution.’ This statement is
(A) Sthitaprajna
(A) False
(B) Bodhisattva (B) True
(C) Doubtful
(C) Islam
(D) Ambiguous
(D) Kevali
36. Which school of Indian philosophy has
32. ‘In its narrow sense tradition is a part of propounded ‘Atomic Theory’ ?
social heritage’. This statement is
(A) Vaisheshika
(A) False
(B) Mimamsa
(B) True
(C) Baudha
(C) Doubtful
(D) Jaina
(D) Ambiguous
37. ‘Arhat’ is the ideal of which one of the
33. Which one of the following is not a following ?
‘mode’ ?
(A) Mahayana
(A) Soul
(B) Hinayana
(B) God
(C) Upanishad
(C) Devil
(D) Bhagvadgita
(D) None of these
38. Which book belongs to later Wittgenstein ?
34. Who has rejected the idea of ‘Nirguna
Brahma’ ? (A) Tractatus
(A) Kumarila
(B) Philosophical Investigations
(B) Madhva
(C) Prabhakar (C) Both (A) and (B)
(D) Shankara (D) None of these
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39. ‘Theology provides material to philosophy 43. Change is a characteristic of which one
of religion’ – This statement is of the following ?
(A) False (A) Revolution
(B) True
(B) Sarvodaya
(C) Ambiguous
(C) Terrorism
(D) Not known
(D) None of these
40. Which one of the following accepts 44. According to Ramanuja, what is the
‘Asat-Khyativada’ ?
relation between God and Soul ?
(A) Mimamsa
(A) Identical relation
(B) Yoga
(B) Aprathaka-Siddhi
(C) Nyaya
(C) Relation of difference
(D) Samkhya
(D) None of these
41. ‘By tradition is meant the transmission of
thinking and believing’– Who has given 45. Which one of the following is correctly
matched ?
(A) Ross (A) Rejection of – Kant
metaphysics
(B) Dialectical method – Ayer
(C) Milton Singer
(C) Theory of description – Moore
(D) Ginsberg
(D) Method of doubt – Descartes
42. Who has accepted that ‘perception is an
adequate source of knowledge’ ? 46. What is the chief value of socialism ?
(A) Empiricist (A) Justice
(B) Idealist (B) Equality
(C) Spiritualist (C) Liberty
(D) Skeptic (D) Reason
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47. Who has written ‘Brahma-Sutra’ ? 51. Which kind of difference is accepted by
Ramanuja, between Brahman and Soul ?
(A) Ramanuja
(A) Sajatiya Bheda
(B) Nagarjuna
(B) Swagat Bheda
(C) Badrayan
(C) Vijatiya Bheda
(D) Shankaracharya
(D) None of the above
48. Does ‘old testament’ supports
52.
Theocracy ? advancements promote Terrorism ?
(A) No (A) Uncertain
(B) Yes (B) Not known
(C) Uncertain (C) Yes
(D) Doubtful (D) Doubtful
49. According to Descartes, ‘mind’ is a/an 53. Who has given picture theory of meaning ?
(A) Independent substance (A) Ayer
(B) Dependent substance (B) Wittgenstein
(C) Neutral substance (C) Russell
(D) Both dependent and independent (D) G. E. Moore
50. Hetvabhasa is a fallacy of 54. Which one is a basic trait of Indian
tradition ?
(A) Inference
(A) Honesty
(B) Perception (B) Summum Bonum
(C) Testimony (C) Austerity
(D) Analogy
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55. Who has written ‘Nyaya-Kusumanjali’ ? 59. The negative meaning of ‘Nirvana’ is
(A) Udayan (A) Blownout
(B) Gautam (B) Cooling
(C) Gangesh Upadhyaya
(C) Craving
(D) Kanad
(D) Bliss
56. Which one of the following belongs to
60. Buddhist philosophy accepts which two
idealism ? Pramanas ?
(A) Aristotle (A) Perception and Inference
(B) Socrates (B) Comparison and Testimony
(C) Locke (C) Perception and Analogy
(D) Plato (D) Inference and Testimony
61. According to Locke, what are the two
57. Which one is known as philosophical
types of ideas ?
anarchism ?
(A) Communism (A) Simple and complex
(B) Socialism (B) Ordinary and extra-ordinary
(C) Fascism (C) Positive and negative
(D) Sarvodaya (D) None of these
58. Who has given the concept of ‘Epoche’ ? 62. ‘Religion is faith in the conservation of
(A) Russell
(A) John Hick
(B) Edmund Husserl
(B) D.M. Edwards
(C) William James (C) H. Hoffding
(D) Sartre (D) McTaggart
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63. Which one of the following is correctly 66. Which is not a cause according to
matched ?
Aristotle’s philosophy ?
(A) Jaina Darshan – Theory of
(A) Necessary cause
Momentariness
(B) Nyaya Darshan – Mayavada
(C) Samkhya – Theory of (C) Material cause
Darshan Atomism
(D) Final cause
(D) Mimamsa – Apoorva
Darshan Theory
67. What is the birth-place of Fascism ?
64. Which religion has given Trinitarian
(A) Russia
concept of God ?
(B) Italy
(A) Christianity
(B) Judaism (C) France
(C) Jainism (D) None of these
(D) Islam
68. Which one is not correctly matched ?
65. Who is the supporter of ‘A -Khyativada’ ?
(A) Samkhya – Kapil
(A) Shankaracharya
(B) Charvaka – Brahaspati
(B) Kumarila Bhatta
(C) Buddhism – Kanad
(C) Shabar Swami
(D) Prabhakar Mishra (D) Mimamsa – Jaimini
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69. Which one of the following is not a 72. Whose theory of Justice is known as
means of Satyagraha ? ‘Sarvodaya’ ?
(A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(A) Non-cooperation
(B) M. K. Gandhi
(B) Dialogue
(C) Sardar Ballabh Bhai Patel
(C) Fasting
(D) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(D) Strike
73. ‘Space and time are the spectacles of
70. Which one of the following is not a reason’ – who said these words ?
Theory of Truth ?
(A) Hegal
(A) Coherence Theory
(B) Hume
(B) Pragmatic Theory
(C) Kant
(C) Sense-datum Theory
(D) Bradley
(D) Correspondence Theory
74. Who has refuted emotive theory of
71. Teachings of Jesus is known as religious language ?
(A) Pancha-Mahavakya (A) Thomas Aquinas
(B) Ten commandments (B) William James
(C) Sermon on the mount (C) A.J. Ayer
(D) None of these (D) Braithwait
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75. Dialectical materialism is a theory related 79. Does Buddhism accept immortality of
to whom ? soul ?
(A) No
(A) Democracy
(B) Yes
(B) Socialism
(C) Not clear
(C) Communism (D) Not known
(D) Facism
80. Problem of evil is not a problem for
76. How many pramanas are accepted by (A) Pantheism
Kumarila Bhatt ?
(B) Theism
(A) 4
(C) Atheism
(B) 2
(D) Polytheism
(C) 6
(D) 5
81. Which one of the following is a
characteristic of Indian philosophy ?
77. Concept of ‘Tri-Ratna’ is given by whom ?
(A) Spiritual attitude
(A) Islam
(B) Law of Karma
(B) Sikhism
(C) Immortality of Soul
(C) Judaism
(D) All the above
(D) Jainism
82. ‘Satyagraha is a non-violent resistance’ –
78. Plato’s chief concern of Universal was
who said these words ?
associated to
(A) Jawahar Lal Nehru
(A) Mathematical entities
(B) Vinoba Bhave
(B) General properties
(C) M. K. Gandhi
(C) Ideas of moral principles
(D) Geometrical proof (D) Jyotiba Phule
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83. ‘I am proud to belong to a religion which 86. Communism is a result of
has taught the world both tolerance and
(A) Industrial revolution
universal acceptance’– Who said these
words ? (B) Class struggle
(A) S. Radhakrishnan (C) Increase of literacy
(B) Gandhi (D) Technical progress
(C) Bhagwan Das
87. What is the name of Aristotle’s theory of
(D) Vivekananda
matter and form ?
(A) Realism
84. Who has advocated ‘Representative
Realism’ ? (B) Nominalism
(A) Spinoza (C) Hylomorphism
(B) Descartes (D) Idealism
(C) Liebnitz
(D) Locke 88. Which one of the following is an atheistic
religion ?
85.
(A) Islam
(A) Rishabh Dev
(B) Christianity
(B) Mahavir
(C) Buddhism
(C) Parshvanath
(D) None of these (D) Hinduism
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89. Which theory of Pramanyavada is 92. According to whom, ‘Religious language
accepted by Mimamsa ? is symbolical’ ?
(A) Svatah – Pramanyavada (A) R. M. Hare
(B) Partah – Pramanyavada (B) Paul Tillich
(C) Svatah – Apramanyavada (C) Russell
(D) Partah – Apramanyavada (D) None of these
90. Who has given the doctrine of ‘Triple - 93. What is the basis of Theocracy ?
Perception’ ?
(A) Freedom of the Will
(A) Prabhakar
(B) Freedom of Speech
(B) Ramanuja
(C) Freedom of Education
(C) Jaimini
(D) Principle of Divine Right
(D) Shabar Swami
94. Which one of the following is a materialistic
91. Who has refuted theory of Idealism ? system of Indian philosophy ?
(A) C. S. Pierce (A) Vedanta
(B) A. J. Ayer (B) Samkhya
(C) Moore (C) Jaina philosophy
(D) Ryle (D) Charvaka
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95. Who had introduced two types of 98. ‘Kevali-Gyan’ is accepted by whom ?
Tradition : Great and little ?
(A) Samkhya
(A) Milton Singer
(B) Shankaracharya
(B) Ginsberg
(C) Jaina Darshan
(C) Ross
(D) Nyaya
99. Which of the following is not a
96. Which book contains Plato’s theory of
innate ideas ? characteristic of socialism ?
(A) Phaedo (A) Importance of labour
(B) Republic (B) Societal control over economy
(C) Crito (C) Opposition of capitalism
(D) Meno
(D) Promotion of individual property
97. Which one of the following is not a pillar
100. Principle of ‘Artha-Kriya Karittvam Sat ’ is
of Islam ?
related with which one of the following ?
(A) Pilgrimage
(A) Theory of Momentariness
(B) Prayer (B) Non-Soul Theory
(C) Fasting (C) Theory of Liberation
(D) Idol worship (D) Theory of Causation
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