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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.
Q. No. 1 How far do you agree with the point that Philosophy is nothing but clarification of thought? (20 Marks)
Q. No. 2 Why is it difficult to give a generally acceptable definition of Philosophy? Explain. (20 Marks)
Q. No. 3 Why does Plato aim at refuting false theories of knowledge and what is his positive exposition about it? (20 Marks)
Q. No. 4 Write in detail about the method of doubt employed by Descartes. (20 Marks)
Q. No. 5 Explain the Berkeleyan dictum, “To be is to be perceived.” (20 Marks)
Q. No. 6 What is Kant’s doctrine of “Transcendental Idealism”? Critically evaluate his ideas about it. (20 Marks)
Q. No. 7 “Existence precedes essence.” Compare and contrast Sartre’s views with the previous idealist philosophers. (20 Marks)
Q. No. 8 Critically analyze the concept of “Objectivity” and to which domains of philosophy it has been applied? (20 Marks)
SUBJECT: Philosophy (Paper-II)
Time Allowed: 3 Hours
Maximum Marks: 100
Note: Attempt FIVE questions in all, Attempt in Urdu or English.
Q.No.1 What role Bait-ul-Hikma, established by Al-Mamun, did play in the development of Muslim philosophical and theological thought? Discuss. (20 Marks)
Q.No.2 Trace out the impacts of Hellenic thought on the development of Muslim philosophical thought. (20 Marks)
Q.No.3 What is the etymology of the term ‘Sufi’? Explain how Sufism emerged and was influenced by the different non-Islamic mystic theories in Islam. (20 Marks)
Q.No.4 Ibn Sina’s Psychology provides a carefully systematized account of the various kinds of minds and their faculties. Explain. (20 Marks)
Q.No.5 How Mutazilites interpreted anthropomorphic verses of the Quran? Elaborate. (20 Marks)
Q.No.6 For benefitting more from the Islamization of knowledge, what priorities should be set out first? (20 Marks)
Q.No.7 “Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself widower in the next”. In view of this quote how do you comment on the trend of Religious Modernism? (20 Marks)
Q.No.8 Expound salient features of Ibn Khaldun’s concept of history. (20 Marks)
