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Question 42

Appeared in Year: 2019

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Answer the following questions in about 150 words each:

How far do you think John Rawls is continuing with Plato՚s concept of justice?

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John Rawls and Plato՚s Concept of Justice

Plato՚s Concept of Justice
  • Plato՚s conception of justice is informed by his conviction that everything in nature is part of a hierarchy, and that nature is ideally a vast harmony, a cosmic symphony, every species and every individual serving a purpose. In this vision, anarchy is the supreme vice, the most unn…

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Question 43

Appeared in Year: 2019

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Discuss the relationship between man and God according to anyone of the religions in India.

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Relationship between Man and God According to Islam

  • There is no god but one God and Muhammad is the Prophet of God: this simple sentence is the bedrock of the Islamic creed. God is the Creator; to Him alone therefore belongs the kingdom and He is the only sovereign.
  • God is the Creator. To him alone, therefore, as his only Lord and Master, man must su…

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Question 44

Appeared in Year: 2007

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Write short note on Plato՚s recollection theory of knowledge. (Marks 20)

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Plato՚s Recollection Theory of Knowledge

  • As per Plato՚s theory of ideas, forms or ideas are knowledge. Ideas are universals and reals. All humans have all ideas, but have forgotten it. Here Plato gives theory of recollection
  • According to Plato we need to recollect ideas already in us. Ideas can be known through cognition and rational insight and they…

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Question 45

Appeared in Year: 2012

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John Locke said that ‘No man՚s knowledge can go beyond his experience’ . Discuss critically the implications of this statement. (Marks 12)

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John Locke “No Man՚s Knowledge Can Go Beyond His Experience”

  • John Locke refuted the theory of innate ideas and believed that all the knowledge originated from the ideas which we get from our experiences. He said that our mind, at the beginning is usually blank, like a white board (Tabula rasa) , which gets impression with our experiences. These impr…

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Question 46

Appeared in Year: 2019

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Examine whether there is any difference between the views of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Baba Saheb Ambedkar on the philosophical foundations of secular democracy.

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Views of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Baba Saheb Ambedkar on Secular Democracy

  • When the amendment motion of the constitution was moved by Prof Shah for the inclusion of the word “secular” in the constitution then the Baba Saheb replied that the amendment is purely superfluous. That Prof. Shah, does not seem to have taken into account the fact that apart f…

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Question 47

Appeared in Year: 2019

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Can there be a philosophical argument to support violence in the name of religion? Discuss.

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Violence in the Name of Religion

  • We are witnessing a dangerous trend in the world of the rising violence in the name of religion. People and organizations, we see, are encouraging the gruesome acts of violence by invoking religion. They are killing a person only because he belongs to a different religion. They are killing the innocent՚s lives becaus…

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Question 48

Appeared in Year: 2019

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Does capital punishment weaken the doctrine of social justice? Discuss.

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Capital Punishment and the Doctrine of Social Justice

The Doctrine of Social Justice
  • Abolitionists believe capital punishment is the worst violation of human rights, because the right to life is the most important, and capital punishment violates it without necessity and inflicts to the condemned a psychological torture.
  • Human rights activists oppose …

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