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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. |
Who wrote ‘The Rules for the Direction of Mind’? |
| A. | spinoza, |
| B. | leibnitz |
| C. | russell |
| D. | descartes |
| Answer» D. descartes | |
| 52. |
The doubt of Descartes should not be confused with ---------------------------------. |
| A. | intuitionalism |
| B. | empiricism |
| C. | scepticism |
| D. | solipsism |
| Answer» C. scepticism | |
| 53. |
Logical doubt of Descartes depends on |
| A. | mind |
| B. | intellect |
| C. | will |
| D. | consciousness |
| Answer» C. will | |
| 54. |
The thing which will resist the doubt will constitute an ------------------------------- certainty. |
| A. | self-evident |
| B. | indubitable |
| C. | theoretical |
| D. | geometrical |
| Answer» B. indubitable | |
| 55. |
Hume says that all knowledge derived from |
| A. | propositions |
| B. | axioms |
| C. | theorems |
| D. | impressions |
| Answer» D. impressions | |
| 56. |
Berkeley argues that all knowledge derived from |
| A. | impressions. |
| B. | ideas |
| C. | theorems |
| D. | laws |
| Answer» B. ideas | |
| 57. |
Kant observed that, contradictory dogmatic philosophies inevitably lead to |
| A. | intuitionalism |
| B. | empiricism |
| C. | scepticism |
| D. | solipsism |
| Answer» C. scepticism | |
| 58. |
Kant believed that Hume’s -------------------------------undermined the sciences. |
| A. | intuitionalism |
| B. | empiricism |
| C. | scepticism |
| D. | solipsism |
| Answer» C. scepticism | |
| 59. |
Hobbs and Descartes professed----------------------------------------method |
| A. | transcendental |
| B. | mathematical |
| C. | geometrical |
| D. | intuitive |
| Answer» B. mathematical | |
| 60. |
Bacon accepted the ------------- method of natural sciences. |
| A. | transcendental |
| B. | mathematical |
| C. | inductive |
| D. | intuitive |
| Answer» C. inductive | |
| 61. |
Kant called his critical method by the name of ---------------------------method also |
| A. | transcendental |
| B. | mathematical |
| C. | inductive |
| D. | intuitive |
| Answer» A. transcendental | |
| 62. |
Kant writes metaphorically--- ----------------------is a resting place for reason. |
| A. | intuitionalism |
| B. | empiricism |
| C. | scepticism |
| D. | solipsism |
| Answer» C. scepticism | |
| 63. |
According to Kant scepticism cannot be a ---------------------------method of philosophy. |
| A. | transcendental |
| B. | rational |
| C. | inductive |
| D. | intuitive |
| Answer» B. rational | |
| 64. |
With the help of his Transcendental method Kant distinguished between the ‘matter’ and the -----------------------------------------------------------forms of knowledge. |
| A. | empirical |
| B. | rational |
| C. | a priori |
| D. | inductive |
| Answer» C. a priori | |
| 65. |
Kant’s method guided the reason to |
| A. | realisation |
| B. | knowledge |
| C. | truth |
| D. | self contemplation |
| Answer» D. self contemplation | |
| 66. |
Some thinkers observe that Kant’s ‘Transcendental method’ lacks intellectual dynamism and it holds only |
| A. | psychological dynamism |
| B. | conceptual dynamism |
| C. | theoretical dynamism |
| D. | intuitive dynamism |
| Answer» A. psychological dynamism | |
| 67. |
Many scholars observe ----------------------------------is a result of the application of Kant’s critical method. |
| A. | antagonism |
| B. | agnosticism |
| C. | scepticism |
| D. | solipsism |
| Answer» B. agnosticism | |
| 68. |
Space and time, and the categories of understanding are treated as the-------------------- of knowledge by Kant |
| A. | presuppositions |
| B. | fundamentals |
| C. | principles |
| D. | impressions |
| Answer» A. presuppositions | |
| 69. |
For Kant the terms ‘a priori’ and --------------------have one and the same meaning. |
| A. | empirical |
| B. | rational |
| C. | non-empirical |
| D. | inductive |
| Answer» C. non-empirical | |
| 70. |
Kant’s claim to have devised a new technique of philosophical inquiry which is |
| A. | direct |
| B. | explicit |
| C. | implicit |
| D. | short |
| Answer» C. implicit | |
| 71. |
Who used dialectics as an instrument for winning disputes? |
| A. | sophist |
| B. | plato |
| C. | socrates |
| D. | hegel |
| Answer» A. sophist | |
| 72. |
The first to introduce the method of dialectics is: |
| A. | socrates |
| B. | plato |
| C. | sophists |
| D. | marx |
| Answer» C. sophists | |
| 73. |
The Greek word ‘dialektos’ means: |
| A. | conversation |
| B. | argument |
| C. | discussion |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» A. conversation | |
| 74. |
The conversational method of Socrates took the form of ....... |
| A. | sceptic |
| B. | doubt |
| C. | dialectic |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» C. dialectic | |
| 75. |
The two operative terms for the possibility and development of ideas under the method of dialogue. |
| A. | consensus and contradiction |
| B. | conversation and contradiction |
| C. | dialogue and dialectics |
| D. | none of the above. |
| Answer» A. consensus and contradiction | |
| 76. |
Plato wrote the book: |
| A. | the republic |
| B. | meditations |
| C. | ethics |
| D. | metaphysics |
| Answer» A. the republic | |
| 77. |
The work ‘Theatetus’ is attributed to: |
| A. | protagoras |
| B. | plato |
| C. | descartes |
| D. | socrates |
| Answer» B. plato | |
| 78. |
The problem of universals was first introduced into philosophy by |
| A. | aquinas |
| B. | aristotle |
| C. | plato |
| D. | berkeley |
| Answer» C. plato | |
| 79. |
In the ........ Plato seeks the definition of Courage |
| A. | theaetetus |
| B. | charmides |
| C. | meno |
| D. | laches |
| Answer» D. laches | |
| 80. |
Who takes dialectics as an argumentative process? |
| A. | socrates |
| B. | plato |
| C. | aristotle |
| D. | zeno |
| Answer» C. aristotle | |
| 81. |
Opposition is the basis of ........ Method |
| A. | analytic |
| B. | synthetic |
| C. | dialectic |
| D. | pragmatic |
| Answer» C. dialectic | |
| 82. |
For -------everything was continually changing into its opposite. |
| A. | zeno |
| B. | heraclitus |
| C. | parmenides |
| D. | thales |
| Answer» B. heraclitus | |
| 83. |
Which among the following is the feature of dialectics? |
| A. | consensus and contradiction |
| B. | conversation or question and answer form |
| C. | dynamicity or movement |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» D. all of the above | |
| 84. |
A method for understanding reality by the triadic movement from thesis to antithesis to synthesis |
| A. | analytical |
| B. | mathematical |
| C. | dialectical |
| D. | phenomenological |
| Answer» C. dialectical | |
| 85. |
Whose method is known as art of intellectual midwifery? |
| A. | socrates |
| B. | plato |
| C. | aristotle |
| D. | kant |
| Answer» A. socrates | |
| 86. |
To bring to light on knowledge which the mind already possesses is known as: |
| A. | intellectual midwifery |
| B. | socratic irony |
| C. | material dialectics |
| D. | absolute idealism |
| Answer» A. intellectual midwifery | |
| 87. |
Which are the characteristics of Socratic dialectic? |
| A. | conversational, conceptual |
| B. | contradiction, methodological doubt |
| C. | critical, inductive and deductive |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» D. all of the above | |
| 88. |
Whose method is the synthesis of opposites? |
| A. | kant |
| B. | hegel |
| C. | both kant and hegel |
| D. | neither kant nor hegel |
| Answer» B. hegel | |
| 89. |
Who is the author of the book Critique of Pure Reason? |
| A. | descartes |
| B. | hume |
| C. | berkeley |
| D. | immanuel kant |
| Answer» D. immanuel kant | |
| 90. |
Who draws limits to the extent of knowledge? |
| A. | kant |
| B. | hegel |
| C. | descartes |
| D. | marx |
| Answer» A. kant | |
| 91. |
For-----, dialectic is the process of the logical development of thought and reality through thesis and antithesis into a synthesis. |
| A. | kant |
| B. | hegel |
| C. | plato |
| D. | zeno |
| Answer» B. hegel | |
| 92. |
There is the final movement in which the spirit reduces Nature to the inwardness, which the spirit itself is. Only at this stage the spirit rises to self consciousness in man. According to Hegel spirit rises to self consciousness in man. According to Hegel this stage is ----- |
| A. | thesis |
| B. | antithesis |
| C. | synthesis |
| D. | none |
| Answer» C. synthesis | |
| 93. |
The key motion of Hegel is ------ |
| A. | the world |
| B. | idea |
| C. | geist |
| D. | none of these. |
| Answer» C. geist | |
| 94. |
For Hegel, Idea means |
| A. | concrete particular |
| B. | concrete universal |
| C. | abstract particular |
| D. | abstract universal |
| Answer» B. concrete universal | |
| 95. |
According to the Absolute Idealism of Hegel. |
| A. | there is only one reality |
| B. | reality is relative |
| C. | there are many realities |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» A. there is only one reality | |
| 96. |
------, in Hegel’s dialectic, means to resolve into a higher unity or to bring into the wholeness that which is fragmentary. |
| A. | sublation |
| B. | geist |
| C. | thesis |
| D. | anti-thesis |
| Answer» A. sublation | |
| 97. |
..... is the author of an all-embracing system of dialectical idealism |
| A. | hegel |
| B. | kant |
| C. | hume |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. hegel | |
| 98. |
According to Hegel, there are three stages in the logical development of spirit: subjective mind, objective mind and ...... |
| A. | absolute god |
| B. | absolute mind |
| C. | absolute spirit |
| D. | absolute idea |
| Answer» C. absolute spirit | |
| 99. |
---- method, which is the proper method of philosophy, according to Hegel, is determined by the subject matter of philosophy itself. |
| A. | the synthetically |
| B. | the analytical |
| C. | the dialectical |
| D. | the geometrical |
| Answer» C. the dialectical | |
| 100. |
According to ......., real is rational and rational is real |
| A. | russell |
| B. | wittgenstein |
| C. | husserl |
| D. | hegel |
| Answer» D. hegel | |
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