Federal Public Service Commission
CSS Philosophy Past Paper 2018
Optional · 80 marks · three hours
Original FPSC paper
DownloadInstructions specific to this paper
- Attempt ONLY FOUR questions from PART-II. ALL questions carry EQUAL marks.
Questions
- Q. 220 marks
Define Philosophy and explain its main branches.
- Q. 320 marks
Discuss key points of Popper’s Fallibilism.
- Q. 420 marks
Work out the weaknesses and strengths of Deductive method.
- Q. 520 marks
Discuss Berkeley’s critique of Locke’s representative realism.
- Q. 620 marks
Critically evaluate Rawls’ notion of Original Position.
- Q. 720 marks
In what sense Foucault may be treated as a post-modernist thinker.
- Q. 820 marks
Write short notes on any TWO of the following: (10 each) (a) Al-Farabi (b) Al-Ghazali (c) Ibn Rushid
Standard FPSC instructions
Printed on this and every CSS paper.
- Part-II is to be attempted on the separate Answer Book.
- All the parts (if any) of each question must be attempted at one place instead of at different places.
- Write Q. No. in the Answer Book in accordance with Q. No. in the question paper.
- No page/space be left blank between the answers. All the blank pages of the Answer Book must be crossed.
- Extra attempt of any question or any part of the attempted question will not be considered.
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