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Question 57

Appeared in Year: 2019

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Discuss whether and how does religious symbolism lead to mysticism?

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Religious Symbolism and Mysticism

Religious Symbolism
  • When in the pursuit of ultimate a sage experiences some mystical thought, he tries to translate it in some kind of song, fable and pictorial form. This is the beginning of symbolism. Symbolism does not lead to mysticism. Mysticism experiences in order to express themselves use symbols as a tool.
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Question 58

Appeared in Year: 2019

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Does technological development lead to progress in the ethical standards of the society? Explain.

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Technological Developments and Ethical Standards of the Society

Werhner Von Braun
  • Let us take some technological advancements and study them in the context of ethical advancements.
  • Prenatal genetic screening and selection to detect certain diseases that may result in terminating a pregnancy is commonplace. Another method of achieving the same outcome …

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Question 59

Appeared in Year: 2009

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Comment on – Plato՚s analogy of the cave and its significance in his theory of knowledge. (Marks 20)

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Plato՚s Analogy of the Cave

  • Analogy of the cave in important part of Plato՚s epistemology.
  • He asks us to imagine prisoners tied from birth who look at a wall. The prisoners only see shadows of the world of sunlight. This world is not visible to the prisoners and hence the prisoners assume the world of shadows to be real. One prisoner escapes and sees…

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Question 60

Appeared in Year: 2007

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State and discuss Locke՚s views on Substance. (Marks 60)

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Question 61

Appeared in Year: 2019

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State and evaluate the Personalistic and impersonalistic aspects of God.

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Personalistic God

A Personal God
  • A personal god is a deity who can be related to as a person instead of as an impersonal force, such as the Absolute, “the All” , or the “Ground of Being” .
  • In the scriptures of the Abrahamic religions, God is described as being a personal creator, speaking in the first person and showing emotion such as anger and pride…

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Question 62

Appeared in Year: 2019

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Do rights make citizens accountable to the state? Argue in the context of present Indian scenario

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Rights and Citizens

  • Every state or country provides its citizens with some fundamental civil rights such as personal rights, religious rights, social rights, moral rights, economic rights, and political rights, etc. A right is a liberty that is protected by the state, such as the right to free speech and religion.
  • Rights are given to the citizens for…

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Question 63

Appeared in Year: 2019

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Does liberty put limitations to equality? Discuss.

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Liberty and Limitations to Equality

Thomas Jefferson
  • Equality and freedom are directly opposed — the more you have of one, the less you have of the other. As historians Will and Ariel Durant testify in The Lessons of History, “freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.”
  • How can this be the case? I thi…

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Question 64

Appeared in Year: 2019

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Answer the following questions in about 150 words each:

Evaluate Mahatma Gandhi as a political anarchist.

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Mahatma Gandhi as a Political Anarchist

  • Anarchy is about abolishing hierarchy. According to the original, Greek meaning of the word, Anarchy stands to create a world where there is no separation between the rulers and the ruled — a place where everyone rules themselves. (Anarchy in Greek means without rulers.) An anarchic vision of society is nonvio…

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Question 65

Appeared in Year: 2019

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How far can religious experience be made a topic of public discourse? Analyse.

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Religious Experience and Public Discourse

  • The stigma of most of the world՚s religious institutions as outdated or brimming with controversy has caused many to disregard its arguments particularly on topics such as same-sex marriage.
  • In turn, the logic by a person commonly goes as follows, “I don՚t think God exists, and your argument is rooted in a be…

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