PMS Philosophy Past Paper 2024 PDF

PUNJAB PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

Combined Competitive Examination (CCE) 2024

For Recruitment to the Posts of Provincial Management Service (PMS)

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SUBJECT: Philosophy (Paper-I)

Time Allowed: 3 Hours

Maximum Marks: 100

Note: Attempt FIVE questions in all, Attempt in Urdu or English. 

Q1. Critically evaluate and examine the difference between nature and the approach of philosophy and Religion.

Q2. Critically examine Plato’s metaphysical view: “Ideas are the first principle of the universe”.

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Q3. Substantiate and examine Spinoza’s concept of human freedom and salvation.

Q4. How much useful is Cartesian doubt in attaining certain knowledge? Critically examine Descartes’s method.

Q5. Why does Sartre maintain that the concepts of authenticity and individuality have to be earned, not learned? Evaluate the concept by giving your arguments.

Q6. Which movement claimed to “refute metaphysics”? Do you think the criterion is correct and did they succeed?

Q7. Aristotle is the founding father of Logic. Write a detailed note on essential components of his logic.

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Q8. Why Richard Rorty uses American Pragmatism as a medium to combine liberalism with continental literature and philosophy. Explain.

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SUBJECT: Philosophy (Paper-II) 

Time Allowed: 3 Hours

Maximum Marks: 100

Note: Attempt FIVE questions in all, Attempt in Urdu or English.

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Q1. Define theology. How did theology originate and develop among Muslim sages?

Q2. Briefly outline the contentious five principles of Mutazilites.

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Q3. Is Sufism alien to Islamic teaching? What is your take on it?

Q4. It is said the difference between Wahdat al Wajud and Wahdat al Shuhd is a lexical one and not of an ontological nature. What is your take on it?

Q5. How do the Asharites tackle the dilemma of determinism and freedom, posed by the earlier theologians?

Q6. Highlight Ibn Rushd’s efforts to defend philosophical inquiry.

Q7. Write a comprehensive note on Iqbal’s concept of Ijtehad.

Q8. A lot of critics saw the whole enterprise of “Islamization of Knowledge” as a failed project. what is your opinion?