PUNJAB PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMBINED COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION
FOR RECRUITMETN TO THE POSTS OF
PROVINCIAL MANAGEMENT SERVICE – 2023
SUBJECT: PHILOSOPHY (PAPER-I)
TIME ALLOWED: THREE HOURS
MAXIMUM MARKS: 100
NOTE:
i. All the parts (if any) of each Question must be attempted at one place instead of at different places.
ii. Write Q. No in the Answer Book in accordance with Q. No in the Q. Paper.
iii. No Page/Space be left blank between the answer. All the blank pages of Answer Book must be crossed.
iv. Extra attempt of any question or any part of the question will not be considered.
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”.
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.
Q8. Why Richard Rorty uses American Pragmatism as a medium to combine liberalism with continental literature and philosophy. Explain.
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