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180+ Ancient and Medieval Western Philosophy Solved MCQs

These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy (BA Philosophy) .

1.

Orphism greatly influenced --------------------

A. aristotle
B. plato
C. socrates
D. thales
Answer» C. socrates
2.

------------- subscribed to the doctrine of the transmigration of the souls.

A. orphism
B. fideism
C. occultism
D. narcissm
Answer» A. orphism
3.

According to Thales universe is fundamentally ------------

A. water
B. air
C. fire
D. none of these
Answer» A. water
4.

For ------------------ primary matter was boundless something.

A. anaximander
B. thales
C. anaximenes
D. heraclitus
Answer» A. anaximander
5.

Greek philosophy begins as an enquiry into the --------- world.

A. subjective
B. objective
C. social
D. none of these
Answer» B. objective
6.

According to ----------- the world arises from water and return to water.

A. anaximander
B. thales
C. anaximenes
D. protagoras
Answer» B. thales
7.

------------ held the view that the ultimate stuff of the universe is boundless something.

A. anaximander
B. thales
C. anaximenes
D. protagoras
Answer» A. anaximander
8.

-------- is the fundamental thing underlying the universe according to Anaximenes.

A. air
B. fire
C. water
D. number
Answer» A. air
9.

---------- stated that all things are full of gods .

A. anaximander
B. thales
C. anaximenes
D. protagoras
Answer» B. thales
10.

------------- held that earth is cylindrical in shape and moves freely in space.

A. anaximander
B. thales
C. anaximenes
D. protagoras
Answer» A. anaximander
11.

------------ calls his infinite boundless matter God.

A. anaximander
B. thales
C. anaximenes
D. protagoras
Answer» A. anaximander
12.

According to ------------ the primary air is regulated by the opposed principles of condensation and rarefaction.

A. anaximander
B. thales
C. anaximenes
D. protagoras
Answer» C. anaximenes
13.

----------- declared that whatever exists,exists in number.

A. protogoras
B. pythagoras
C. plato
D. aristotle
Answer» B. pythagoras
14.

-------------tried to show that things are numbers in some arbitrary manner.

A. eleatics
B. milesians
C. samoans
D. pythagoreans
Answer» D. pythagoreans
15.

According to ------------- change alone is real , and manyness and changes are unreal.

A. heraclitus
B. parmenides
C. plato
D. aristotle
Answer» B. parmenides
16.

--------- holds the identity of thought and being.

A. heraclitus
B. parmenides
C. plato
D. aristotle
Answer» B. parmenides
17.

-----------belongs to the Eleatic school.

A. heraclitus
B. parmenides
C. plato
D. aristotle
Answer» B. parmenides
18.

------- is the sole reality according to Parmenides.

A. being
B. not-being
C. becoming
D. none of these
Answer» A. being
19.

According to Parmenides the world that presented to us through senses is -----.

A. being
B. not-being
C. real
D. none of these
Answer» B. not-being
20.

------------ makes the distinction between sense and reason.

A. parmenides
B. heraclitus
C. protagoras
D. aristotle
Answer» A. parmenides
21.

----------- is the doctrine that the sense world is an appearence

A. idealism
B. realism
C. materialism
D. monism
Answer» A. idealism
22.

According to ----------- only being is , becoming is not at all.

A. heraclitus
B. pythagoreans
C. eleatics
D. parmenides
Answer» C. eleatics
23.

According to ------------- being and not being are in everything at one and the same time.

A. heraclitus
B. pythagoreans
C. eleatics
D. parmenides
Answer» A. heraclitus
24.

For ----------- both being and not being are equally real .

A. heraclitus
B. pythagoreans
C. eleatics
D. parmenides
Answer» A. heraclitus
25.

According to ------------- being has not being in it.

A. heraclitus
B. pythagoreans
C. eleatics
D. parmenides
Answer» A. heraclitus
26.

----------- was a contemporary of Parmenides.

A. heraclitus
B. pythagoreans
C. eleatics
D. parmenides
Answer» A. heraclitus
27.

According to ------------- everything in the universe has in it its own opposites.

A. heraclitus
B. pythagoreans
C. eleatics
D. parmenides
Answer» A. heraclitus
28.

According to Heraclitus the ultimate kind of matter is -------- .

A. water
B. fire
C. air
D. none of these
Answer» B. fire
29.

The Ionian thinkers were --------- .

A. dualistic
B. monistic
C. pluralistic
D. none of these
Answer» B. monistic
30.

The Greek thinkers who drew our attension to proportion, order and harmony are --------- .

A. pythagoreans
B. eleatics
C. heraclitus
D. parmenides
Answer» A. pythagoreans
31.

------------------- laid emphasis on vegetarianism.

A. pythagoreans
B. eleatics
C. heraclitus
D. parmenides
Answer» A. pythagoreans
32.

------------------------laid emphasis on asceticism.

A. pythagoreans
B. eleatics
C. heraclitus
D. parmenides
Answer» A. pythagoreans
33.

------------------ practiced a reformed kind of orphic religion.

A. pythagoreans
B. eleatics
C. heraclitus
D. parmenides
Answer» A. pythagoreans
34.

-------------------- founded an order in which men and women were considered equal.

A. pythagoras
B. eleatics
C. heraclitus
D. parmenides
Answer» A. pythagoras
35.

According to -------------- the earth revolves round the central fire.

A. heracletus
B. eleatics
C. parmenides
D. pythagoreans
Answer» D. pythagoreans
36.

Truth lies in reason and not in the world of sense is the fundamental position of ------ .

A. realism
B. materialism
C. idealism
D. none of these
Answer» C. idealism
37.

For ------- there is no past, no present, no future.

A. being
B. not-being
C. both
D. none of these
Answer» A. being
38.

Pre – sophistic philosophy is -----------because it conceived nature as animate or alive.

A. naturalistic
B. ontological
C. monistic
D. hylozoistic
Answer» D. hylozoistic
39.

Pre – sophistic philosophy is -----------because its attension is directed to nature.

A. naturalistic
B. ontological
C. monistic
D. hylozoistic
Answer» A. naturalistic
40.

Pre – sophistic philosophy is ----------- , it enquires into the essence of things.

A. naturalistic
B. ontological
C. monistic
D. hylozoistic
Answer» B. ontological
41.

Pre – sophistic philosophy is ----------- it seeks to explain phenomena by single principle

A. naturalistic
B. ontological
C. monistic
D. hylozoistic
Answer» C. monistic
42.

Protagoras and Gorgias were ----------

A. sophists
B. philosophers
C. sages
D. none of these
Answer» A. sophists
43.

“Man is the measure of all things” is the famous teachings of ------------- .

A. socrates
B. sophists
C. protagoras
D. gorgias
Answer» C. protagoras
44.

For------------- knowledge is perception.

A. protagoras
B. socrates
C. plato
D. aristotle
Answer» A. protagoras
45.

ho*mo mensura is the famous saying by

A. socrates
B. plato
C. aristotle
D. protagoras
Answer» D. protagoras
46.

According to ------------ even if there is anything we cannot know it.

A. gorgias
B. aistotle
C. plato
D. socrates
Answer» A. gorgias
47.

Protagoras was influenced by ---------- in propounding his epistemology.

A. leucippus
B. democritus
C. gorgias
D. socrates
Answer» B. democritus
48.

------------- deny the universality of knowledge.

A. socrates
B. sophists
C. plato
D. none of these
Answer» B. sophists
49.

According to sophists ----------- can give us only relative knowledge.

A. reason
B. perception
C. inference
D. none of these
Answer» B. perception
50.

Which one of the following is not a dialogue by Plato

A. meno
B. republic
C. phaedo
D. poetics
Answer» D. poetics

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