Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC)
Competitive Examination for Recruitment to BPS-17 Posts under the Federal Government
Time Allowed: 3 Hours
Paper: Philosophy
PART-I (Objective) : 20 Marks
1. According to ______ politics has to be obedient to morality:
(A) Russell (B) Plato (C) Aristotle (D) None of these
2. Representative realism is also known as:
(A) Common sense realism (B) Subjective idealism (C) Transcendental subjectivism (D) None of these
3. ________ has proposed the verification principle as the main idea of logical positivism:
(A) Berkeley (B) Freire (C) A.J. Ayer (D) None of these
4. The nature of Greek philosophy is predominantly:
(A) Mythical (B) Religious (C) Speculative (D) None of these
5. Das Kapital is the work of:
(A) John Rawls (B) Karl Marx (C) Voltaire (D) None of these
6. _______ pragmatism is also known as instrumentalism:
(A) Rorty (B) Dewey (C) Putnam (D) None of these
7. To be is to be perceived is a famous dictum of:
(A) Berkeley (B) Kant (C) Locke (D) None of these
8. Al-Ghazali’s major work The Revival of Religious Sciences focuses upon:
(A) Philosophy (B) Religion (C) Ethics (D) All of these
9. ________ is known as the father of Islamic Neoplatonism:
(A) Al-Farabi (B) Ibn Sina (C) Ibn Khaldun (D) None of these
10. Social contract theory is associated with:
(A) Rawls (B) Rousseau (C) Hobbes (D) All of these
11. Ibn Khaldun’s conception of history is:
(A) Progressive (B) Cyclical (C) Scientific (D) None of these
12. ______ believes that the practice of anatomy enhanced one’s faith in God:
(A) Ibn Rushd (B) Al-Ghazali (C) Ibn Sina (D) None of these
13. Birth of the Clinic is the work of:
(A) Nietzsche (B) Foucault (C) Nozick (D) None of these
14. Bergson prefers ______ over intellect:
(A) Experience (B) Revelation (C) Intuition (D) None of these
15. According to ______ man is a pleasure-seeking animal:
(A) Anaximenes (B) Democritus (C) Plotinus (D) None of these
16. _______ is best known for his theory of monads:
(A) Spinoza (B) Leibniz (C) Hume (D) None of these
17. Mind-body dualism is the theory of:
(A) Kant (B) Descartes (C) Hobbes (D) None of these
18. According to _______ knowledge is sense experience elaborated by understanding:
(A) Iqbal (B) Ibn Khaldun (C) Sir Syed (D) None of these
19. Nihilism is a philosophy of:
(A) Lyotard (B) Nietzsche (C) Popper (D) None of these
20. The term open society is coined by:
(A) Popper (B) Bergson (C) Gadamer (D) None of these
PART-II (Subjective) : 80 Marks
Attempt ONLY FOUR Questions from PART-II. (20×4)
PART-II
Q. No. 2. Discuss some of the implications of Aristotle’s virtue ethics in the context of his notion of moral excellence.
Q. No. 3. Peirce’s pragmatic maxim claims that the purpose of philosophy is to free philosophy from ‘senseless jargon’. Explain.
Q. No. 4. What is the connection between Nietzsche’s Nihilism and Existentialism? Elaborate.
Q. No. 5. Differentiate between Hobbesian and Rawlsian contractarian approaches with examples.
Q. No. 6. Why is Heidegger critical of traditional metaphysics? Discuss in detail.
Q. No. 7. Why is Kantian philosophy known as a Copernican revolution in the history of Western philosophy? Discuss.
Q. No. 8. Why was Shah Wali Allah interested in developing an equilibrium between the angelic and animalistic dimensions of man? Discuss with reference to his conception of man.
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