List of top Questions asked in GATE XH- C4- 2021

In Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time, which among the following correctly describe Dasein?
Read the passage carefully and answer the question.
“There is … a subtler domination exercised in the sphere of ideas by one culture on another, a domination all the more serious in the consequence, because it is not ordinarily felt… Slavery begins when one ceases to feel the evil and it deepens when the evil is accepted as a good. Cultural subjection is ordinarily of an unconscious character and it implies slavery from the very start. When I speak of cultural subjection, I do not mean the assimilation of an alien culture. That assimilation need not be an evil; it may be positively necessary for healthy progress and in any case it does not mean a lapse of freedom. There is cultural subjection only when one's traditional cast of ideas and sentiments is superseded without comparison or competition by a new cast representing an alien culture which possesses one like a ghost.”
(K.C. Bhattacharyya, Swaraj in Ideas, p.13)
In the light of the passage above, cultural subjection amounts to
Read the following statements carefully and answer the following question.
i. Rahul is not what he is and is what he is not.
ii. The book is a book and can be nothing more.
iii. Of course, a book is a book, but it can always be something more.
iv. Rahul is what he is and must always be so.
Which of the following pairs of statements given below is NOT compatible with Jean-Paul Sartre’s Existential Philosophy?
Which of the following philosophical tenets are admissible in Cārvāka philosophy?
Read the passage carefully and answer the following question.
‘While I condemn a religion of rules, I must not be understood to hold the opinion that there is no necessity for a religion. On the contrary, I agree with Burke when he says that “True religion is the foundation of society, the basis on which all true Civil Government rests, and both their sanction.” Consequently, when I urge that these ancient rules of life be annulled, I am anxious that their place shall be taken by a religion of principles, which alone can lay claim to being a true religion.’
(B. R. Ambedkar, Annihilation of Caste, 24.1)
From the above passage, which among the following accurately represents Ambedkar’s view on foundation of society?
Which among the following statements are justifiably held from Thomas Hobbes’ political theory on the social contract, in his book Leviathan?
If Descartes' Meditations is credited for a modern version of mind-body dualism, which statements among the following hold true in accordance with it?
John Stuart Mill, in his Utilitarianism, proposes the conception of Utility or Happiness as the directive rule of human conduct. Which of the following are drawn from his conception of Happiness to form the utilitarian standard?
Which among the following statements does W.V.O. Quine REJECT in his work, Two Dogmas of Empiricism?
Read the following statements carefully and answer the following question.
i. Greater welfare of others is to be valued more than the individual freedom.
ii. Only when the conception of justice is on hand, the ideas of respect and human dignity can be given a more definite meaning.
iii. Principles of justice are derived from the ideas of respect and human dignity.
iv. The loss of freedom for some is not made right by a greater welfare of others.
In light of the theory of justice as fairness, as proposed by John Rawls, which of the following pairs of statement DO NOT agree with Rawls’s position?
George Berkeley, in his Principles of Human Knowledge, reflects on the nature of thought and attacks abstract ideas. Which among the following hold true to his view?
In his An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Hume relies on a basic distinction between two forms of perception. Which among the following are true about it?
For Immanuel Kant, which of the following statements are appropriate examples of synthetic a priori judgment?
In the Sāṅkhya system, which among the following are antaḥkaraṇas?
Which of the following are meant by Kant’s notion of autonomy of will?
On which of the following, Plato and Aristotle DISAGREE concerning the realm of the political?
Which among the following are part of yama in Patañjali’s Aṣṭāṅga-Yoga?
Progress of the modern sciences and reflection on method have led to the development of new fields of analysis in Renaissance Philosophy. Which among the following correctly trace the influence of a particular science on a particular philosopher's thought?
Gottlob Frege, in his Sense and Reference, discusses the identity relation between the statements “a=a” and “a=b”. Which of the following are his conclusions?
Which among the following is predominantly a non-dualistic philosophical system?
Gandhi’s doctrine of Trusteeship establishes a normative relationship between labour and capital. Indicate which of the following is NOT in agreement with this doctrine?
Which of the following is NOT a pramāṇa in the Nyāya system?
In the Vaiśeṣika system, which of the following is a padārtha (category)?
Identify which among the following is NOT a characteristic of a simple idea according to John Locke.
Which of the following are in accordance to Democritus’ cosmology?