PUNJAB PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMBINED COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR
RECRUITMENT TO THE POSTS OF
PROVINCIAL MANAGEMENT SERVICE-2014
SUBJECT: PHILOSOPHY (OPTIONAL) PAPER-I
TIME ALLOWED: THREE HOURS MAXIMUM MARKS: 100
NOTE: Attempt FIVE Questions in All. Attempt in Urdu or English.
Q.1 Discuss the salient features of Plato’s theory of state. 20
Q.2 Write a critical note on Aristotle’s theory of knowledge. 20
Q.3 “I think, therefore, I am”: Explain and elaborate the Cartesian dictum. 20
Q. 4 Critically examine Locke’s theory of primary and secondary qualities. 20
Q.5 Hume’s skepticism was the logical culmination of British Empiricism. Explain. 20
Q.6 Give a critical account or Hegel’s Absolute Idealism. 20
Q.7 Discuss in detail Nietzsche’s philosophy as manifestation of “Wilt to Power”, with special reference to his concept of ‘Overman’ and ‘Eternal Recurrence’. 20
Q.8 What is Verifiability Principle? Discuss its various forms and its logical status with reference to the Logical Positivism. 20
Q.9 Distinguish between consciousness-for-itself and consciousness-in-itself, as ontological foundations of Sartre’s Phenomenology of human freedom. 20