McqMate
These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy (BA Philosophy) .
| 51. |
According to Socrates knowledge is through -----------. |
| A. | perception |
| B. | concepts |
| C. | both |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. concepts | |
| 52. |
For Socrates knowledge is ----------- |
| A. | relative |
| B. | universal |
| C. | particular |
| D. | absolute |
| Answer» B. universal | |
| 53. |
According to Socrates ------------alone can take us to being. |
| A. | percepts |
| B. | concepts |
| C. | inference |
| D. | testimony |
| Answer» B. concepts | |
| 54. |
------------ believed in universal validity of knowledge. |
| A. | socrates |
| B. | sophists |
| C. | parmenides |
| D. | democritus |
| Answer» A. socrates | |
| 55. |
Sophists failed to accommodate the role -----------plays in the formation of knowledge |
| A. | perception |
| B. | reason |
| C. | inference |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. reason | |
| 56. |
------------------ maintained that virtue is knowledge of the good through concepts. |
| A. | anaximander |
| B. | anaximenes |
| C. | democritus |
| D. | socrates |
| Answer» D. socrates | |
| 57. |
------------ claimed that real knowledge of justice, virtue are already present in man. |
| A. | sophist |
| B. | protagoras |
| C. | socrates |
| D. | anaximander |
| Answer» C. socrates | |
| 58. |
According to ----------- knowledge is virtue and virtue is true knowledge |
| A. | sophists |
| B. | socrates |
| C. | plato |
| D. | aristotle |
| Answer» B. socrates | |
| 59. |
From -------- Plato derived the doctrine of the eternity and changelessness of idea. |
| A. | parmenides |
| B. | heraclitus |
| C. | pythagoras |
| D. | protagoras |
| Answer» A. parmenides | |
| 60. |
From------------Plato derived the notion of the immortality of the soul. |
| A. | pythagoras |
| B. | parmenides |
| C. | heraclitus |
| D. | protagoras |
| Answer» A. pythagoras | |
| 61. |
From-------------Plato accepted the doctrine of the flux of sensible things. |
| A. | heraclitus |
| B. | socrates |
| C. | parmenides |
| D. | protagoras |
| Answer» A. heraclitus | |
| 62. |
------------ is the doctrine that universals have their own independent existence. |
| A. | realism |
| B. | conceptualism |
| C. | nominalism |
| D. | idealism |
| Answer» A. realism | |
| 63. |
-------------- is the doctrine that universals are constructed by human mind. |
| A. | realism |
| B. | conceptualism |
| C. | nominalism |
| D. | idealism |
| Answer» B. conceptualism | |
| 64. |
According to --------------- universals are mere words to think about class. |
| A. | realism |
| B. | nominalism |
| C. | conceptualism |
| D. | idealism |
| Answer» B. nominalism | |
| 65. |
According to --------- virtue is one. |
| A. | heraclitus |
| B. | socrates |
| C. | parmenides |
| D. | protagoras |
| Answer» B. socrates | |
| 66. |
The theory of Ideas is proposed by ------------ . |
| A. | aristotle |
| B. | plato |
| C. | heraclitus |
| D. | parmenides |
| Answer» B. plato | |
| 67. |
---------- is the element common to the Individual man and the idea of the man. |
| A. | third man |
| B. | first man |
| C. | second man |
| D. | last man |
| Answer» A. third man | |
| 68. |
Which among the following is not a characteristic of idea. |
| A. | universal |
| B. | eternal |
| C. | mutable |
| D. | absolute |
| Answer» C. mutable | |
| 69. |
Plato compares the Idea of the Good to that of --------. |
| A. | star |
| B. | sun |
| C. | moon |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. sun | |
| 70. |
He Idea of ----------- is the highest reality and it is the cause of truth and knowledge. |
| A. | good |
| B. | reason |
| C. | beauty |
| D. | logic |
| Answer» A. good | |
| 71. |
------------ period extends from 585 to the middle of the fifth century B.C. |
| A. | pre-sophistic |
| B. | socratic |
| C. | sophistic |
| D. | post- aristotelian |
| Answer» A. pre-sophistic | |
| 72. |
The sophistic period is period of ----------- |
| A. | transition |
| B. | reconstruction |
| C. | decline |
| D. | emergence |
| Answer» A. transition | |
| 73. |
The socratic period is a period of -------------- |
| A. | transition |
| B. | reconstruction |
| C. | decline |
| D. | emergence |
| Answer» B. reconstruction | |
| 74. |
--------- period extends from 430 BC to 320 BC |
| A. | socratic |
| B. | sophistic |
| C. | pre- sophistic |
| D. | ethical |
| Answer» A. socratic | |
| 75. |
The period from 585 to the middle of the fifth century B.C. is known as ------- . |
| A. | post aristotelian |
| B. | pre –sophistic |
| C. | socratic |
| D. | sophistic |
| Answer» B. pre –sophistic | |
| 76. |
The scene of the first period of greek philosophy is -------- . |
| A. | athens |
| B. | sparta |
| C. | colonial world |
| D. | greek mainland |
| Answer» C. colonial world | |
| 77. |
Plato and Aristotle build upon the foundations laid by ---------- |
| A. | heraclitus |
| B. | socrates |
| C. | parmenides |
| D. | protagoras |
| Answer» B. socrates | |
| 78. |
The scene of the -------- period of greek philosophy is laid in Athens, Alexandria, and Rome. |
| A. | first |
| B. | second |
| C. | third |
| D. | fourth |
| Answer» D. fourth | |
| 79. |
According to --------- happiness is the highest good in life. |
| A. | stoics |
| B. | epicureans |
| C. | aristotelians |
| D. | athenians |
| Answer» B. epicureans | |
| 80. |
According to -------------- virtuous life is the highest good. |
| A. | stoics |
| B. | epicureans |
| C. | aristotelians |
| D. | athenians |
| Answer» B. epicureans | |
| 81. |
Anaximander was a pupil of ------------ . |
| A. | thales |
| B. | socrates |
| C. | plato |
| D. | aristotle |
| Answer» A. thales | |
| 82. |
Plato was the student of ------------ . |
| A. | thales |
| B. | socrates |
| C. | plato |
| D. | aristotle |
| Answer» B. socrates | |
| 83. |
Aristotle was the student of ------------- . |
| A. | thales |
| B. | socrates |
| C. | plato |
| D. | aristotle |
| Answer» B. socrates | |
| 84. |
Anaximenes was the student of ----------------------. |
| A. | thales |
| B. | anaximander |
| C. | plato |
| D. | aristotle |
| Answer» B. anaximander | |
| 85. |
The Ionian thinkers were interested in the problem of ---------- . |
| A. | substance |
| B. | change |
| C. | number |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. substance | |
| 86. |
The Eleatics and the Heraclitus were interested in the problem of -------- . |
| A. | substance |
| B. | change |
| C. | number |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. change | |
| 87. |
------- stated that ‘you could not step twice into the same rivers’. |
| A. | heraclitus |
| B. | anaximander |
| C. | plato |
| D. | aristotle |
| Answer» A. heraclitus | |
| 88. |
According to ------------- “for the way upward and the way downward are one." |
| A. | heraclitus |
| B. | anaximander |
| C. | plato |
| D. | aristotle |
| Answer» A. heraclitus | |
| 89. |
According to ----------- everything, therefore, is a union of opposite qualities. |
| A. | heraclitus |
| B. | anaximander |
| C. | plato |
| D. | aristotle |
| Answer» A. heraclitus | |
| 90. |
------------ is the originator of the Eleatic school. |
| A. | xenophanes |
| B. | anaximander |
| C. | plato |
| D. | aristotle |
| Answer» A. xenophanes | |
| 91. |
Zeno and Melissus are the dialecticians of the ----------- school. |
| A. | pythagorean |
| B. | eleatic |
| C. | ionian |
| D. | athenian |
| Answer» B. eleatic | |
| 92. |
"If you associate with me, on the very day you will return a better man than you came.''- this is a statement by ------------ . |
| A. | protagoras |
| B. | xenophanes |
| C. | zeno |
| D. | anaxagoras |
| Answer» A. protagoras | |
| 93. |
According to --------- knowledge depend upon the particular knower. |
| A. | sophist |
| B. | xenophanes |
| C. | zeno |
| D. | anaxagoras |
| Answer» A. sophist | |
| 94. |
The chief concern of ----------- was to meet the challenge of Sophistry, which, in undermining knowledge, threatened the foundations of morality and the State. |
| A. | socrates |
| B. | protagoras |
| C. | anaxagoras |
| D. | gorgias |
| Answer» A. socrates | |
| 95. |
----------- maintained that morality is based on feeling and desires. |
| A. | sophist |
| B. | xenophanes |
| C. | zeno |
| D. | anaxagoras |
| Answer» A. sophist | |
| 96. |
According to ------------ perception can give only relative knowledge. |
| A. | sophist |
| B. | xenophanes |
| C. | zeno |
| D. | anaxagoras |
| Answer» A. sophist | |
| 97. |
ho*mo mensura was the maxim of----------------- . |
| A. | sophist |
| B. | xenophanes |
| C. | zeno |
| D. | anaxagoras |
| Answer» A. sophist | |
| 98. |
The dictum “ Know thyself “ is attributed to ----------- . |
| A. | socrates |
| B. | protagoras |
| C. | anaxagoras |
| D. | gorgias |
| Answer» A. socrates | |
| 99. |
------------- believed in truth, morality and universal validity of knowledge. |
| A. | socrates |
| B. | protagoras |
| C. | anaxagoras |
| D. | gorgias |
| Answer» A. socrates | |
| 100. |
According to ------------- morality and political views based on feeling can only be relative and conventional. |
| A. | socrates |
| B. | protagoras |
| C. | anaxagoras |
| D. | gorgias |
| Answer» A. socrates | |
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