All Model Answers of Plato: UPSC PSIR Optional PYQs 1990-2025
Here you will find all the PYQs of Topic Plato asked in UPSC PSIR Optional Paper along with the expert written Model Answers of it to get an extra edge in your Examination.
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UPSC Optional PSIR Comment: "The State is Individual Writ Large." (Plato) (2005)
UPSC Optional PSIR: Plato's theory of education is the logical result of his concept on of justice'. Discuss.
UPSC Mains 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." (2000)
UPSC Mains: Comment: 'Reality is a shadow of ideas'. (Plato) (1992)
UPSC Mains Comment: "Western thought, one might say, has been either platonic or anti-platonic but hardly ever non - platonic." (Popper) (2009)
UPSC Optional PSIR: Comment: For, no law or ordinance is mightier than knowledge (Plato)
UPSC Optional PSIR: Comment: "Plato's Communism is a supplementary machine to give effect to and reinforce that spirit which education is to create. (Nettleship)"
UPSC Optionals PSIR: Explain Aristotle's critique of Plato's Idealism. (20 m- 2019)
UPSC Optionals PSIR: Comment: “The State is Individual Writ Large.” (Plato) (2005)
UPSC Optionals PSIR: “Plato was an enemy of the Open Society.” (Popper) Comment. (2015)
UPSC Mains PSIR: Trace the evolution of Western Political Thought from ancient to contemporary period. (20 m- 2020)