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| 751. |
Gandhi said Satyagraha is an ------------ of a person. |
| A. | basic need |
| B. | inherent birth right |
| C. | basic desire |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. basic desire | |
| 752. |
Satyagraha claims for itself the great virtue of: |
| A. | physical strength |
| B. | power |
| C. | knowledge |
| D. | fearlessness |
| Answer» E. | |
| 753. |
Gandhi said, ----------------------- is the natural consequence of Truth. |
| A. | sarvodaya |
| B. | trusteeship |
| C. | non-violence |
| D. | swadesi |
| Answer» D. swadesi | |
| 754. |
Satyagraha believes in the --------------- of mass. |
| A. | brotherhood |
| B. | strength |
| C. | potentiality |
| D. | knowledge |
| Answer» B. strength | |
| 755. |
Satyagraha literal means: |
| A. | realise truth |
| B. | to hold fast to truth |
| C. | to anticipate truth |
| D. | to strike for truth |
| Answer» C. to anticipate truth | |
| 756. |
To Gandhi Truth is: |
| A. | theoretical principle |
| B. | pragmatic principle |
| C. | instrumental principle |
| D. | dynamic principle |
| Answer» E. | |
| 757. |
Gandhi said “Without ---------------it is impossible to observe any principles in life”. |
| A. | ahimsa |
| B. | astheya |
| C. | sathya |
| D. | aprigraha |
| Answer» D. aprigraha | |
| 758. |
According to Gandhiji --------------- must be as pure as ends. |
| A. | words |
| B. | means |
| C. | practice |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. practice | |
| 759. |
According to Gandhi Truth and Nonviolence are: |
| A. | separable |
| B. | contradictory |
| C. | inseparable |
| D. | hierarchical |
| Answer» D. hierarchical | |
| 760. |
Gandhi’s identification of ---------------------- is considered as fundamental basis forall his thoughts. |
| A. | truth and god |
| B. | truth and love |
| C. | god and soul |
| D. | truth and soul |
| Answer» B. truth and love | |
| 761. |
Thoreau’s famous essay ----------------- made profound influence upon Gandhi. |
| A. | civil resistance |
| B. | passive resistance |
| C. | civil disobedience |
| D. | sesame and lilies |
| Answer» D. sesame and lilies | |
| 762. |
Gandhi symbolise ------------------- is the incarnation of Ahimsa. |
| A. | woman |
| B. | human |
| C. | rama |
| D. | cow |
| Answer» B. human | |
| 763. |
“The Magic Spell of a Book”. By this title Gandhi referred about: |
| A. | song celestial |
| B. | the kingdom of god within you |
| C. | unto this last |
| D. | civil disobedience |
| Answer» D. civil disobedience | |
| 764. |
For the formulation of the concept of Satyagraha Gandhi made strong reference on theconcept of------------------by Tolstoy. |
| A. | civil disobedience |
| B. | bread labour |
| C. | passive resistance |
| D. | active |
| Answer» D. active | |
| 765. |
Tolstoy’s ---------------------- made profound influence upon young Gandhi. |
| A. | song celestial |
| B. | the kingdom of god within you |
| C. | unto this last |
| D. | civil disobedience |
| Answer» C. unto this last | |
| 766. |
--------------- is considered as the great apostle of Non-violence. |
| A. | ruskin |
| B. | thoreau |
| C. | tolstoy |
| D. | hobbes |
| Answer» D. hobbes | |
| 767. |
Gandhi said “It has afforded me invaluable help in my moments of gloom”. In thisassertion ‘It’ means: |
| A. | gita |
| B. | upanisad |
| C. | bible |
| D. | qurn |
| Answer» B. upanisad | |
| 768. |
Gandhi called Bhagavat Gita as: |
| A. | song celestial |
| B. | universal mother |
| C. | first book |
| D. | source book |
| Answer» C. first book | |
| 769. |
Which word from Mandukya Upanisad influenced Gandhi to form his concept oftruth? |
| A. | sathyameva jayathe |
| B. | ekamevadvathiyam |
| C. | aham brahmasmi |
| D. | prajnanam brahma |
| Answer» B. ekamevadvathiyam | |
| 770. |
--------------- is considered as the most favourite Upanisad of Gandhi. |
| A. | chandokya |
| B. | mandukya |
| C. | isavasya |
| D. | kena |
| Answer» D. kena | |
| 771. |
Essential nature of God is described by Gandhi is: |
| A. | satcitananda |
| B. | iswara |
| C. | jiva |
| D. | athman |
| Answer» B. iswara | |
| 772. |
Gandhian philosophy is an echo of philosophy of : |
| A. | quran |
| B. | ramayana |
| C. | bible |
| D. | upanisads |
| Answer» E. | |
| 773. |
Gandhi describes Ultimate reality in terms of : |
| A. | brahman and atman |
| B. | truth and god |
| C. | god and self |
| D. | spirit and |
| Answer» C. god and self | |
| 774. |
Many religious texts made deep influence upon Gandhi.------------------ is ranked fistamong them. |
| A. | upanisads |
| B. | ramayana |
| C. | quran |
| D. | gita |
| Answer» E. | |
| 775. |
Gandhi identified facts of Nonviolence from the teachings of: |
| A. | vedas |
| B. | buddhism and jainism |
| C. | gita |
| D. | ramayana |
| Answer» C. gita | |
| 776. |
First figure who made an influence upon Gandhi was: |
| A. | his mother |
| B. | his father. |
| C. | his teacher |
| D. | his friend |
| Answer» B. his father. | |
| 777. |
Russell’s important article ----- refers to definite and indefinite descriptions. |
| A. | On Denoting |
| B. | Logical Atomism |
| C. | Mathematica |
| D. | All are false |
| Answer» B. Logical Atomism | |
| 778. |
In philosophy of language, who adapted the theory of truth for formalized languagesto provide a semantic theory of meaning for natural languages? |
| A. | Russell |
| B. | Tarski |
| C. | Sartre |
| D. | Carnap |
| Answer» C. Sartre | |
| 779. |
In the United States, ----- rejected the distinction between analytic and syntheticpropositions that was essential to early analytic philosophy. |
| A. | Sartre |
| B. | Russell |
| C. | Quine |
| D. | Carnap |
| Answer» D. Carnap | |
| 780. |
Ernst Mach is an ------ philosopher. |
| A. | Relative |
| B. | Empiricist |
| C. | Rationalist |
| D. | Instrumentalist |
| Answer» C. Rationalist | |
| 781. |
-------- divides all meaningful propositions into two categories: analyticpropositions and synthetic propositions. |
| A. | Logical positivism |
| B. | Existentialist |
| C. | Phenomenologist |
| D. | Positivist |
| Answer» B. Existentialist | |
| 782. |
The philosophy of the Vienna Circle is broadly equivalent to ------ |
| A. | James |
| B. | Dewey |
| C. | logical positivism. |
| D. | Carnap |
| Answer» D. Carnap | |
| 783. |
The founder of legal positivism was -------- |
| A. | Compte |
| B. | Peirce |
| C. | Dewey |
| D. | Jeremy Bentham |
| Answer» E. | |
| 784. |
The positivists today have rejected the so-called-------- school of philosophy prefer tocall themselves logical empiricists. |
| A. | Wolffian |
| B. | Vienna |
| C. | Existentialists |
| D. | Hermeneutical |
| Answer» C. Existentialists | |
| 785. |
Who was not a major proponent of logical positivism in the Vienna Circle? |
| A. | Meinong |
| B. | Carnap |
| C. | Wittgenstein |
| D. | A J Ayer |
| Answer» B. Carnap | |
| 786. |
Who said that science is not about verifying hypotheses or theories, but falsifying them? |
| A. | Carnap |
| B. | Sartre |
| C. | Husserl |
| D. | Popper |
| Answer» E. | |
| 787. |
Pseudo-words or pseudo statements violating the rules of -------- positivism |
| A. | Legel |
| B. | Logical |
| C. | Comte’s |
| D. | All are false |
| Answer» C. Comte’s | |
| 788. |
Wittgenstein’s Tractatus .influenced ---------- PhilosophY. |
| A. | Universal |
| B. | Agnostic |
| C. | Logical positivists |
| D. | Idealist |
| Answer» D. Idealist | |
| 789. |
Pragmatism rejects -------- |
| A. | Abstraction |
| B. | Action |
| C. | Facts |
| D. | concreteness |
| Answer» B. Action | |
| 790. |
--------- French philosopher and the founder of positivism. |
| A. | Dewey |
| B. | Comte |
| C. | Peirce |
| D. | James |
| Answer» C. Peirce | |
| 791. |
Essays in Experimental Logic is the work of ---------- |
| A. | C S Peirce |
| B. | Dewey |
| C. | Richard Rorty |
| D. | Anselm |
| Answer» C. Richard Rorty | |
| 792. |
John Dewey preferred to call his own philosophy as ----- |
| A. | formalism |
| B. | idealism |
| C. | Experimentalism |
| D. | naturalism |
| Answer» D. naturalism | |
| 793. |
---------- is the twentieth century philosophy . |
| A. | Idealism |
| B. | Rationalism |
| C. | Deontology |
| D. | pragmatism |
| Answer» E. | |
| 794. |
Matter is known as our sensations of colour, figure, hardness and the like is thephilosophy of ------ |
| A. | pragmatism |
| B. | Idealism |
| C. | Utilitarianism |
| D. | Existentialism |
| Answer» B. Idealism | |
| 795. |
--------- is a system of philosophy based on experience and empirical knowledge ofnatural phenomena. They regarded metaphysics and theology is inadequate and imperfect systems of knowledge. |
| A. | Relativism |
| B. | Positivism |
| C. | Intentionality |
| D. | Consciousness |
| Answer» C. Intentionality | |
| 796. |
According to Comte the first stage is called ---------- |
| A. | Polytheism |
| B. | monotheism |
| C. | teliological |
| D. | intellectual |
| Answer» D. intellectual | |
| 797. |
Compte reveals a law of -------- stages that govern human development and heanalyzed these stages in his major work. |
| A. | two |
| B. | three |
| C. | four |
| D. | all are false |
| Answer» C. four | |
| 798. |
Dewey insists that truth is -------- of thought to existence . |
| A. | semantic |
| B. | coherence |
| C. | correspondence |
| D. | all are false |
| Answer» D. all are false | |
| 799. |
Dewey says that the problem must be defined before you can reach aSolution and need ------ steps for solving problems. |
| A. | Five |
| B. | four |
| C. | three |
| D. | six |
| Answer» B. four | |
| 800. |
Dewey's own version of pragmatism was called ---------- |
| A. | positivism |
| B. | Relativism |
| C. | absolutism |
| D. | instrumentalism |
| Answer» E. | |