PUNJAB PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMBINED COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION
FOR RECRUITMETN TO THE POSTS OF
PROVINCIAL MANAGEMENT SERVICE – 2025
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.
Q.No.1 How far do you agree with the point that Philosophy is nothing but the clarification of thought?
Q.No.2 Why is it difficult to give a generally acceptable definition of Philosophy? Explain.
Q.No.3 Why does Plato aim at refuting false theories of knowledge, and what is his positive exposition about it?
Q.No.4 Write in detail about the method of doubt employed by Descartes.
Q.No.5 Explain the Berkeleyan dictum, “To be is to be perceived.”
Q.No.6 What is Kant’s doctrine of “Transcendental Idealism”? Critically evaluate his ideas about it.
Q.No.7 “Existence precedes essence.” Compare and contrast Sartre’s views with those of the previous idealist philosophers.
Q.No.8 Critically analyze the concept of “Objectivity” and to which domains of philosophy it has been applied?
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