Delhi University Entrance Test (DUET) 2020 Previous Year Question Paper With Answer Key
DU MPhil Phd in Philosophy
Topic: PHIL MPHIL S2
1) Which among the following statements is not true about Mill's concept of Utilitarian morality?
?
[Question ID = 9616]
1. It recognizes the power of sacrificing in human beings for greater good. / [Option ID =
38458]
2. Any sacrifice which does not augment happiness is wasted. / , [Option ID = 38459]
3. It admits that sacrifice is a virtue in itself. / [Option ID = 38460]
4. It advocates selfrenunciation which leads to happiness. / [Option ID = 38461]
Correct Answer :
It admits that sacrifice is a virtue in itself. / [Option ID = 38460]
2) According to the relativist, ethical theory is not a relevant method for moral practice because
[Question ID = 9617]
1. Of the presence of noncompatibilism / [Option ID = 38462]
2. Moral values are absolute / [Option ID = 38463]
3. These do not acknowledge moral diversity / [Option ID = 38464]
4. The existence of morality itself is questionable / [Option ID = 38465]
Correct Answer :
These do not acknowledge moral diversity / [Option ID = 38464]
3) According to David Hume, the relation from which moral distinctions arise lies
, :
[Question ID = 9618]
1. In the transcendental realm / [Option ID = 38466]
2. In the realm of internal action / [Option ID = 38467]
3. In the realm of external objects / [Option ID = 38468]
4. In the realm between internal action and external objects / [Option ID = 38469]
Correct Answer :
In the realm of external objects / [Option ID = 38468]
4) Which kind of Euthanasia can patients seek via living will in India?
?
[Question ID = 9619]
1. Passive Euthanasia / [Option ID = 38470]
2. Active Euthanasia / [Option ID = 38471]
3. Non voluntary Euthanasia / [Option ID = 38472]
4. Involuntary Euthanasia / [Option ID = 38473]
Correct Answer :
Passive Euthanasia / [Option ID = 38470]
5) Apartheid in South Africa was :
( ):
[Question ID = 9620]
1. Legal but not moral / [Option ID = 38474]
2. Neither legal nor moral / [Option ID = 38475]
3. Both legal and moral / [Option ID = 38476]
4. Moral but not legal / [Option ID = 38477]
Correct Answer :
Legal but not moral / [Option ID = 38474]
6) Meta ethics is concerned with questions such as :
(metaethics)
[Question ID = 9621]
1. What is the criterion of moral conduct? / ? [Option ID = 38478]
2. Are there moral facts? / ? [Option ID = 38479]
3. What ought I to do? / ? [Option ID = 38480]
4. What are the moral standards regulating right and wrong conduct? / ? [Option ID = 38481]
Correct Answer :
Are there moral facts? / ? [Option ID = 38479]
7) Committing the naturalistic fallacy implies :
:
[Question ID = 9622]
1. Mistaking good as synthetic / [Option ID = 38482]
2. Reducing nature to the other / [Option ID = 38483]
3. Reducing ethical terms to natural is a mistake / [Option ID = 38484]
4. Misunderstanding nature's capacity to renew itself / [Option ID = 38485]
Correct Answer :
Reducing ethical terms to natural is a mistake / [Option ID = 38484]
8) Which of the following cannot be ascribed to Aristotle :
?
[Question ID = 9623]
1. Final good for human beings must be pursued for its own sake / [Option ID = 38486]
2. The happy life involves the exercise of reason / [Option ID = 38487]
3. Akrasia or internal harmony underlies the exercise of virtues / [Option ID = 38488]
4. Virtue is an intermediate state between two excesses / [Option ID = 38489]
Correct Answer :
Akrasia or internal harmony underlies the exercise of virtues / [Option ID = 38488]
9) Nikma karma of Gt is followed by
[Question ID = 9624]
1. Loka Sagraha /
[Option ID = 38490]
2. Advaita /
[Option ID = 38491]
3. Yoga /
[Option ID = 38492]
4. Bhakti /
[Option ID = 38493]
Correct Answer :
Loka Sagraha /
[Option ID = 38490]
10) Biocentrism as an ethical theory includes :
:
[Question ID = 9625]
1. Only human beings / [Option ID = 38494]
2. Human beings and animals / [Option ID = 38495]
3. Animals and plants / [Option ID = 38496]
4. Human beings, animals, plants and ecosystems / ,, [Option ID = 38497]
Correct Answer :
Animals and plants / [Option ID = 38496]
11) As per Bernard Williams, the features of utilitarianism are
, :
[Question ID = 9626]
1. It is transcendental / [Option ID = 38498]
2. It is committed to the concept of negative responsibility / [Option ID = 38499]
3. Empirical calculation of consequences is not possible / [Option ID = 38500]
4. The consequences in Utilitarianism can be calculated on a common currency /
[Option ID = 38501]
Correct Answer :
Empirical calculation of consequences is not possible / [Option ID = 38500]
12) According to egoistic hedonism moral worth of an action is decided by
:
[Question ID = 9627]
1. Pleasure of the individual / [Option ID = 38502]
2. Utility of action / [Option ID = 38503]
3. Greatest happiness of greatest number / [Option ID = 38504]
4. Intention of the agent / [Option ID = 38505]
Correct Answer :
Pleasure of the individual / [Option ID = 38502]
13) According to Kant, moral worth of an action is to be evaluated based on the:
, :
[Question ID = 9628]
1. Consequence of action / [Option ID = 38506]
2. Intention of the agent / [Option ID = 38507]
3. Utility of the action / [Option ID = 38508]
4. Means taken to arrive at the end / [Option ID = 38509]
Correct Answer :
Intention of the agent / [Option ID = 38507]
14) Which one of the following cannot be considered under Physical Evil:
() ?
[Question ID = 9629]
1. Floods / [Option ID = 38510]
2. Diseases / [Option ID = 38511]
3. Cowardice / [Option ID = 38512]
4. Bodily deformities / [Option ID = 38513]
Correct Answer :
Cowardice / [Option ID = 38512]
15) It is a chief feature of pragmatism that:
[Question ID = 9630]
1. Metaphysics is nonsense / [Option ID = 38514]
2. Epistemology is a part of science / [Option ID = 38515]
3. Metaphysics has practical implications / [Option ID = 38516]
4. Atheism should be rejected / [Option ID = 38517]
Correct Answer :
Metaphysics has practical implications / [Option ID = 38516]
16) For Searle, a computational program explains:
, :
[Question ID = 9631]
1. No functionality /
[Option ID = 38518]
2. No understanding /
[Option ID = 38519]
3. Wisdom /
[Option ID = 38520]
4. Intentionality /
[Option ID = 38521]
Correct Answer :
No understanding /
[Option ID = 38519]
17) Mental states can be realized by any kind of body is a position held by
, ____ :
[Question ID = 9632]
1. Eliminativists / [Option ID = 38522]
2. Behaviourists / [Option ID = 38523]
3. Functionalists / [Option ID = 38524]
4. Substance dualists / [Option ID = 38525]
Correct Answer :
Functionalists / [Option ID = 38524]
18) Russell's theory of descriptions has
:
[Question ID = 9633]
1. Only metaphysical implications /
[Option ID = 38526]
2. Only epistemological implications /
[Option ID = 38527]
3. Both metaphysical and epistemological implications /
[Option ID = 38528]
4. Neither metaphysical nor epistemological implications /
[Option ID = 38529]
Correct Answer :
Both metaphysical and epistemological implications /
[Option ID = 38528]
19) The fact that the length of the shadow cannot explain the height of the pole that throws the shadow shows that
,
[Question ID = 9634]
1. Explanations have a direction / [Option ID = 38530]
2. Laws have a direction / [Option ID = 38531]
3. Facts have a direction / [Option ID = 38532]
4. Deduction has a direction / [Option ID = 38533]
Correct Answer :
Explanations have a direction / [Option ID = 38530]
20) For Kripke, the identity statement Hesperus is Phosphorus is
, " ":
[Question ID = 9635]
1. An analytic statement / [Option ID = 38534]
2. An analytic aposteriori statement / [Option ID = 38535]
3. A contingent statement / [Option ID = 38536]
4. A necessary aposteriori statement / [Option ID = 38537]
Correct Answer :
A necessary aposteriori statement / [Option ID = 38537]
21) The substance is spoken of by Aristotle in Metaphysics as
:
[Question ID = 9636]
1. What being is for that thing /
[Option ID = 38538]
2. What being is not for that thing /
[Option ID = 38539]
3. What underlies that thing /
[Option ID = 38540]
4. Its universal /
[Option ID = 38541]
Correct Answer :
What being is for that thing /
[Option ID = 38538]
22) The actuality for Aristotle is prior to potentiality in respect of
:
[Question ID = 9637]
1. Being invisible / [Option ID = 38542]
2. Substance / [Option ID = 38543]
3. Being static / [Option ID = 38544]
4. Both invisible and static / [Option ID = 38545]
Correct Answer :
Substance / [Option ID = 38543]
23) If P and Q are both False, then which of the following statements is true
P Q , :
[Question ID = 9638]
1. P & Q / P Q [Option ID = 38546]
2. P Q / P Q [Option ID = 38547]
3. ? P and Q / ? P Q [Option ID = 38548]
4. P v Q / P v Q [Option ID = 38549]
Correct Answer :
P Q / P Q [Option ID = 38547]
24) "Some snakes are poisonous" is to be translated in logic as
" " :
[Question ID = 9639]
1. (x) (Sx Px)
[Option ID = 38550]
2. xSx & Px
[Option ID = 38551]
3. xSx &Px
[Option ID = 38552]
4. (x) (Px Sx)
[Option ID = 38553]
Correct Answer :
xSx & Px
[Option ID = 38551]
25) ? (P & Q) is logically equivalent to
(P & Q) :
[Question ID = 9640]
1. P Q / P Q [Option ID = 38554]
2. P Q / P Q [Option ID = 38555]
3. ? P v Q / ? P vQ [Option ID = 38556]
4. P or Q / P or Q [Option ID = 38557]
Correct Answer :
? P v Q / ? P vQ [Option ID = 38556]
26) "Planets are spherical" is to be translated as
" " :
[Question ID = 9641]
1. xPx & Sx / xPx & Sx [Option ID = 38558]
2. (x) (Px Sx) / (x) (Px Sx) [Option ID = 38559]
3. (x) (Sx Px) / (x) (Sx Px) [Option ID = 38560]
4. (x) (Px & Sx) / (x) (Px & Sx) [Option ID = 38561]
Correct Answer :
(x) (Px Sx) / (x) (Px Sx) [Option ID = 38559]
27) If modal realism about possibilities is true then possible worlds are
[Question ID = 9642]
1. Nonexistent entities / [Option ID = 38562]
2. Physical entities / [Option ID = 38563]
3. Abstract entities / [Option ID = 38564]
4. Sets of propositions / [Option ID = 38565]
Correct Answer :
Physical entities / [Option ID = 38563]
28) The political philosophy of Ambedkar is based on the principles of
________ :
[Question ID = 9643]
1. Educate, agitate, organize / , , [Option ID = 38566]
2. Equality, liberty and fraternity / , [Option ID = 38567]
3. Classless society and socialism / [Option ID = 38568]
4. Brahmanism and capitalism / [Option ID = 38569]
Correct Answer :
Equality, liberty and fraternity / , [Option ID = 38567]
29) Which one of the following is not a part of the triple path prescribed by Buddhism
[Question ID = 9644]
1. Praj? /
[Option ID = 38570]
2. J?na /
[Option ID = 38571]
3. la /
[Option ID = 38572]
4. Samdhi /
[Option ID = 38573]
Correct Answer :
J?na /
[Option ID = 38571]
30) Who among the following considered the theory of karma and rebirth as dogmas of Indian philosophy?
() :
[Question ID = 9645]
1. Dayakrishna /
[Option ID = 38574]
2. Radhakrishnan /
[Option ID = 38575]
3. J. Krishnamurti / .
[Option ID = 38576]
4. Surendranath Dasgupta /
[Option ID = 38577]
Correct Answer :
Surendranath Dasgupta /
[Option ID = 38577]
31) Which of the Indian philosophical tradition is critical about Vedic Brahminism?
:
[Question ID = 9646]
1. ramaa tradition /
[Option ID = 38578]
2. ruti tradition /
[Option ID = 38579]
3. Smti tradition /
[Option ID = 38580]
4. Navya Nyya tradition /
[Option ID = 38581]
Correct Answer :
ramaa tradition /
[Option ID = 38578]
32) The PrvaMmmsakas believe in which one of the following:
[Question ID = 9647]
1. Parata Pramayvda and Parata Aprmayavda / : :
[Option ID = 38582]
2. Svata Pramyavda and Parata Apramyavda / : :
[Option ID = 38583]
3. Parata Pramyavda and Svata Apramyavda / : :
[Option ID = 38584]
4. Svata Pramyavda and Svata Apramyavda / : :
[Option ID = 38585]
Correct Answer :
Svata Pramyavda and Parata Apramyavda / : :
[Option ID = 38583]
33) Consider the following statements with respect to Smkhya, mark the incorrect statement
, :
[Question ID = 9648]
1. All experience is full of sorrow / [Option ID = 38586]
2. The suffering will continue as long as the citta and purua are associated / [Option ID = 38587]
3. In the state of kevala, all samskra and avidy is uprooted / , [Option ID = 38588]
4. The state of kevala implies nondistinction of prakti and purua / , [Option ID = 38589]
Correct Answer :
The state of kevala implies nondistinction of prakti and purua / , [Option ID = 38589]
34) Match the following vttis of the citta and mark the correct code
List I
List II
I. Kipta
A. Onepointed
II. Pramuha
B. Ignorant
III. Vikipta
C. Unsteady
IV. Ekgara
D. Wild
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
:
I
II
I.
A.
II.
B.
III.
C.
IV.
D.
[Question ID = 9649]
1. I D, II B, III C, IV A
[Option ID = 38590]
2. I C, II B, III A IV D
[Option ID = 38591]
3. I C, II A, III B, IV D
[Option ID = 38592]
4. I B, II A, III C, IV D
[Option ID = 38593]
Correct Answer :
I D, II B, III C, IV A
[Option ID = 38590]
35) Which one of the khytivda is accepted by Vaieika system?
[Question ID = 9650]
1. Anyathkhyti /
[Option ID = 38594]
2. Akhyti /
[Option ID = 38595]
3. tmakhti /
[Option ID = 38596]
4. Asatkhyti /
[Option ID = 38597]
Correct Answer :
Anyathkhyti /
[Option ID = 38594]
36) Choose the correct order of the stages of life according to prattyasamutpda of Buddhism:
:
[Question ID = 9651]
1. Bhava, Vedan, Tanh and Updna / , ,
[Option ID = 38598]
2. Bhava, Tanh, Vedan, and Updna / , , ,
[Option ID = 38599]
3. Bhava, Updna, Tanh, and Vedan / , , ,
[Option ID = 38600]
4. Bhava, Vedan, Updna and Tanh / , ,
[Option ID = 38601]
Correct Answer :
Bhava, Updna, Tanh, and Vedan / , , ,
[Option ID = 38600]
37) Consider the following statements with reference to the schools of Vednta and mark the correct code
(i) akara accepted nirgua Brahman and rejected sagua Brahman
(ii) akara and Rmnuja accepted sagua Brahman
(iii) akara accepted both sagua and nirgua Brahman
(iv) akara and Rmnuja both rejected nirgua Brahman
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
[Question ID = 9652]
1. Only (i) is true / (i) [Option ID = 38602]
2. Only (i) and (iv) are true / (i) (iv) [Option ID = 38603]
3. Only (ii) and (iii) are true / (ii) (iii) [Option ID = 38604]
4. Only (iii) and (iv) are true / (iii) (iv) [Option ID = 38605]
Correct Answer :
Only (ii) and (iii) are true / (ii) (iii) [Option ID = 38604]
38) Which one of the following statements is true with regard to theory of causation of Vednta?
[Question ID = 9653]
1. Vivartavda is compatible with rambhavda /
[Option ID = 38606]
2. Vivartavda is incompatible with satkaryavda /
[Option ID = 38607]
3. Satkaryavda is incompatible with pariamavda /
[Option ID = 38608]
4. Vivartavda is compatible with satkaryavda /
[Option ID = 38609]
Correct Answer :
Vivartavda is compatible with satkaryavda /
[Option ID = 38609]
39) Who among the following believes that "The nation is the greatest evil for the Nation."?
" ''?
[Question ID = 9654]
1. Ambedkar / [Option ID = 38610]
2. Tagore / [Option ID = 38611]
3. Gandhi / [Option ID = 38612]
4. Aurobindo / [Option ID = 38613]
Correct Answer :
Tagore / [Option ID = 38611]
40) In the 6th Chapter of the Chndogya Upaniad `Thou Art That' is repeated:
" " :
[Question ID = 9655]
1. 8 times / 8
[Option ID = 38614]
2. 9 times / 9
[Option ID = 38615]
3. 5 times / 5
[Option ID = 38616]
4. 10 times / 10
[Option ID = 38617]
Correct Answer :
9 times / 9
[Option ID = 38615]
41) The Nsadya Sukta is about:
:
[Question ID = 9656]
1. The female creation principle /
[Option ID = 38618]
2. Indra, the God of thunder / ,
[Option ID = 38619]
3. Questions of creation /
[Option ID = 38620]
4. The failure of twosubstance theory /
[Option ID = 38621]
Correct Answer :
Questions of creation /
[Option ID = 38620]
42) According to Russell, numbers are:
, ______
[Question ID = 9657]
1. Logical fictions / [Option ID = 38622]
2. Ideal forms / [Option ID = 38623]
3. Invented / [Option ID = 38624]
4. Transcendental / [Option ID = 38625]
Correct Answer :
Logical fictions / [Option ID = 38622]
43) Who among the following belong to the tradition of communitarianism?
` ' () ?
[Question ID = 9658]
1. J. S. Mill, John Rawls and Will Kymlicka / . . , , [Option ID = 38626]
2. Charles Taylor, Mac Intyre, Michael Sandel / , , [Option ID = 38627]
3. Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci and Louis Althusser / , [Option ID = 38628]
4. Edmund Burke, John Dewey and William James / , [Option ID = 38629]
Correct Answer :
Charles Taylor, Mac Intyre, Michael Sandel / , , [Option ID = 38627]
44) Truth according to Hegel is:
[Question ID = 9659]
1. Static /
[Option ID = 38630]
2. Progressively evolving /
[Option ID = 38631]
3. To be understood through two valued logic /
[Option ID = 38632]
4. To be understood in terms of its utility /
[Option ID = 38633]
Correct Answer :
Progressively evolving /
[Option ID = 38631]
45) Which of the following tool is not used in postmodern research methodology?
?
[Question ID = 9660]
1. Discourse / [Option ID = 38634]
2. Ideology / [Option ID = 38635]
3. Dialectics / [Option ID = 38636]
4. Understanding / [Option ID = 38637]
Correct Answer :
Ideology / [Option ID = 38635]
46) In the Divided Line in Plato's Republic which of the following is true?
" " :
[Question ID = 9661]
1. Mathematical methodology is preferred /
[Option ID = 38638]
2. Methodology of reaching unhypothetical principle is preferred /
[Option ID = 38639]
3. Methodology of copying images is preferred /
[Option ID = 38640]
4. Methodology of experimentation is preferred /
[Option ID = 38641]
Correct Answer :
Methodology of reaching unhypothetical principle is preferred /
[Option ID = 38639]
47) The methodology of logical paraphrase into an ideal language is
[Question ID = 9662]
1. Abandoned by Wittgenstein in Philosophical Investigations /
[Option ID = 38642]
2. Retained by Wittgenstein in Philosophical Investigations /
[Option ID = 38643]
3. Retained with changes by Wittgenstein in Philosophical Investigations /
[Option ID = 38644]
4. Used only when required by Wittgenstein in Philosophical Investigations /
[Option ID = 38645]
Correct Answer :
Abandoned by Wittgenstein in Philosophical Investigations /
[Option ID = 38642]
48) According to Kant the notion of totality is:
(totality) :
[Question ID = 9663]
1. A form of inner sense / [Option ID = 38646]
2. A form of outer sense / [Option ID = 38647]
3. A pure concept / [Option ID = 38648]
4. An empirical concept / [Option ID = 38649]
Correct Answer :
A pure concept / [Option ID = 38648]
49) According to Leibnitz swoon and death are examples of:
[Question ID = 9664]
1. Clear and distinct representation / (representation) [Option ID = 38650]
2. Confused representation / [Option ID = 38651]
3. Absence of all representation / [Option ID = 38652]
4. Empty representation / [Option ID = 38653]
Correct Answer :
Confused representation / [Option ID = 38651]
50) Hume's empiricism demands that all simple ideas are
[Question ID = 9665]
1. Rational / (rational) [Option ID = 38654]
2. Sensory / [Option ID = 38655]
3. Imaginary / [Option ID = 38656]
4. Structured / [Option ID = 38657]
Correct Answer :
Sensory / [Option ID = 38655]
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