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WPT : Plato PYQ UPSC
1. Comment : ’Reality is a shadow of ideas’. (Plato) (1992 / 20 mark)
2. Comment : ”For, no law or ordinance is mightier than knowledge." (Plato) (1993 / 20 mark)
3. Comment : ”Until philosophers are kings, or kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, cities will never have rest from evil.” (Plato) (2000 / 20 mark)
4. Explain Plato’s communism and compare it with modern communism. (2003 / 60 mark)
5. Plato’s theory of education ’is the logical result of his conception of justice’. Discuss. (2004 / 60 mark)
6. Comment : ”The State. is Individual Writ Large.” (Plato) (2005 / 20 mark)
7. Comment : ”State is individual writ large.” (Plato) (2006 / 20 mark)
8. Comment : ”Plato’s communism is a supplementary machinery to give effect to' and reinforce that spirit which education is to create.” (Nettleship) (2007 / 20 mark)
9. Comment : ”Western thought, one might say, has been either platonic or anti-platonic but hardly ever non - platonic.” (Popper) (2009 / 20 mark)
10. Plato was an enemy of the the open Society (popper) Comment. (2015 / 20 mark)
11. Trace the evolution of Western Political Thought from ancient to contemporary period (2020 / 20 mark)
