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CSS Philosophy Past Paper 2018
CSS Philosophy 2018 carries 100 marks over 3 hours. It has 7 questions.
- Marks
- 100
- Time
- 3 hours
- Questions
- 7
How to attempt: Attempt ONLY FOUR questions from PART-II. ALL questions carry EQUAL marks.
Questions
Question 1 (Part I) is the paper's MCQs, which are not reproduced here.
- Q. 2Define Philosophy and explain its main branches.(20)
- Q. 3Discuss key points of Popper’s Fallibilism.(20)
- Q. 4Work out the weaknesses and strengths of Deductive method.(20)
- Q. 5Discuss Berkeley’s critique of Locke’s representative realism.(20)
- Q. 6Critically evaluate Rawls’ notion of Original Position.(20)
- Q. 7In what sense Foucault may be treated as a post-modernist thinker.(20)
- Q. 8Write short notes on any TWO of the following: (10 each)(20)
- (a)Al-Farabi(10)
- (b)Al-Ghazali(10)
- (c)Ibn Rushid(10)
- Part-II is to be attempted on the separate Answer Book.
- Attempt ONLY FOUR questions from PART-II. ALL questions carry EQUAL marks.
- All the parts (if any) of each Question must be attempted at one place instead of at different places.
- Candidate must write Q. No. in the Answer Book in accordance with Q. No. in the Q.Paper.
- No Page/Space be left blank between the answers. All the blank pages of Answer Book must be crossed.
- Extra attempt of any question or any part of the attempted question will not be considered.