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120+ Classical 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) .

51.

The thinkers of Milesian school were the thinkers of ------

A. metaphysics
B. nature
C. religion
D. idealism
Answer» B. nature
52.

Pythagoras was born on-------

A. samos
B. iona
C. athens
D. all are false
Answer» A. samos
53.

Who believed in the immortality, transmigration, and reincarnation of souls?

A. ionians
B. atomists
C. pythagoras
D. eleatic
Answer» C. pythagoras
54.

Who included various dietary restrictions against meat and beans.

A. thales
B. pythagoras
C. anaximander
D. socrates
Answer» B. pythagoras
55.

Central to Pythagoreanism is the idea that --------- accounts take precedence over material things.

A. numbers
B. zeros
C. music
D. god
Answer» A. numbers
56.

The order of the world is the result of a harmony, which was also thought to consist in numerical ratios is the philosophy of

A. spirit over matter
B. realism
C. pythagoras
D. materialism
Answer» C. pythagoras
57.

------is a Philosopher who made a distinction between mind and matter

A. anaxagoras
B. thales
C. socrates
D. democritus
Answer» A. anaxagoras
58.

Who said that everything is a mixture of earth, air, fire, and water

A. anaximander
B. plato
C. socrates
D. anaxagoras
Answer» D. anaxagoras
59.

------- philosopher is the main source of Anaxagoras

A. socrates
B. pythagoras
C. plato
D. herodotus
Answer» C. plato
60.

-----gave a power and grandeur to Athenian Democracy

A. pericles
B. thales
C. protagoras
D. anaximander
Answer» A. pericles
61.

-- --is an important element introduced by Anaxagoras into his philosophy and it is the cause of motion.

A. change
B. god
C. matter
D. mind/ nous
Answer» D. mind/ nous
62.

The atomists are the last pre-Socratics and they follow------

A. physis
B. religion
C. theism
D. idealism
Answer» A. physis
63.

The word atom means ----

A. cuttable
B. thesis
C. antithesis
D. uncuttable
Answer» D. uncuttable
64.

------is believed to be a disciple of Leucippus

A. protagoras
B. democritus
C. anaximander
D. plato
Answer» B. democritus
65.

------ say that all things consist of a single kind of matter broken into tiny particles.

A. plato
B. aristotle
C. atomists
D. protagoras
Answer» C. atomists
66.

Who claimed that there are two fundamental types of elements: atoms and void.

A. socrates
B. atomists
C. plato
D. idealist
Answer» B. atomists
67.

Who held that the atoms were so small as to be invisible?

A. democritus
B. pythagoras
C. aristotle
D. plato
Answer» A. democritus
68.

Sophia which means -----

A. wisdom
B. speech
C. action
D. concept
Answer» A. wisdom
69.

Protagoras a native of --------in northeast Greece

A. clazomen
B. samos
C. stagira
D. abdera
Answer» D. abdera
70.

Who was the first of the professional Sophists?

A. socrates
B. democritus
C. protagoras
D. plato
Answer» C. protagoras
71.

Who said that instead of speaking well think well?

A. thales
B. aristotle
C. plato
D. socrates
Answer» D. socrates
72.

Truth and On the Gods are the woks of -------

A. plato
B. socrates
C. protagoras
D. anaximander
Answer» C. protagoras
73.

------ were more concerned with public speaking, rather than thinking well.

A. materialists
B. rationalists
C. idealists
D. sophists
Answer» D. sophists
74.

Man is the measure of all things, says -----

A. leucippus
B. protagoras
C. socrates
D. aristotle
Answer» B. protagoras
75.

Maieutic means -----

A. midwifery
B. dialectical
C. perceptual
D. universal
Answer» A. midwifery
76.

--- –says that knowledge is an adjustment between the knower and the object known

A. plato
B. aristotle
C. protagoras
D. st.anselm
Answer» C. protagoras
77.

-----was known as a self- taught philosopher

A. anaximander
B. plato
C. socrates
D. st. augustine
Answer» C. socrates
78.

Who was known as the street genius philosopher?

A. socrates
B. plato
C. aristotle
D. pythagoras
Answer» A. socrates
79.

Who was the author of philosophic tendency and of a Philosophic method of irony?

A. socrates
B. aquinas
C. plato
D. protagoras
Answer» A. socrates
80.

Who said that the first step is to be wise is to admit that one is not wise.

A. plato
B. anselm
C. socrates
D. thales
Answer» C. socrates
81.

According to ------, knowledge is virtue and ignorance is vice

A. thales
B. plato
C. pythagoras
D. socrates
Answer» D. socrates
82.

Who said that as virtue is knowledge, so virtue can be thought?

A. leucippus
B. protagoras
C. socrates
D. aristotle
Answer» C. socrates
83.

The highest ideal according to Socrates is -----

A. matter
B. dialectical
C. statement
D. virtue
Answer» D. virtue
84.

Concept means ------

A. judgment
B. idea
C. virtue
D. particular
Answer» B. idea
85.

The mentor of Aristotle is ---

A. plato
B. socrates
C. academy
D. lyceum
Answer» A. plato
86.

Who was the founder of Academy?

A. plato
B. aristotle
C. socrates
D. protagoras
Answer» A. plato
87.

Apology is the famous work of ---------

A. socrates
B. thales
C. plato
D. sartre
Answer» C. plato
88.

The concepts lies in the transcendental world is the philosophy of --------

A. socrates
B. pythagoras
C. aristotle
D. plato
Answer» D. plato
89.

Who distinguished knowledge and doxa?

A. plato
B. socrates
C. aristotle
D. kant
Answer» A. plato
90.

The theory of forms/ideas/concepts/essences is the Philosophy of -------

A. aristotle
B. plato
C. thales
D. pythagoras
Answer» B. plato
91.

Plato wrote ------ dialogues

A. 37
B. 24
C. 34
D. 35
Answer» C. 34
92.

Who wrote Theaetetus?

A. thales
B. aristotle
C. plato
D. anaxagoras
Answer» C. plato
93.

Who said that true knowledge lies in conceptual level?

A. plato
B. aristotle
C. protagoras
D. anaximander
Answer» B. aristotle
94.

------stated that the best possible political system (state) will be ruled by philosophers.

A. aristotle
B. sophists
C. socrates
D. plato
Answer» D. plato
95.

Whose philosophy is that one who knows the difference between knowledge, ignorance, and opinion

A. leucippus
B. plato
C. socrates
D. aristotle
Answer» B. plato
96.

The perceptible world (i.e., the world we perceive through our senses) is a reflection or copy of that higher intelligible world is the philosophy of ------

A. plato
B. anaxagoras
C. aristotle
D. socrates
Answer» A. plato
97.

The Greek word for “forms” in Plato is --------- (a)hyle (b) logos (c) eidos (d) philos 98 Plato divided human soul into -------parts

A. three
B. two
C. four
D. all are false
Answer» C. four
98.

Plato’s Theory of Ideas was severely criticized by -------

A. protogoras
B. socrates
C. aristotle
D. all is true
Answer» C. aristotle
99.

Plato admit the immortality of soul in his ---- dialogue

A. apology
B. republic
C. theaetetus
D. phaedo
Answer» D. phaedo
100.

----------is a philosopher who was born at Stagira

A. aristotle
B. plato
C. socrates
D. thles
Answer» A. aristotle

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