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) .
| 1. |
---------- is considered as the father of modern philosophy |
| A. | descartes |
| B. | kant |
| C. | hegel |
| D. | plato |
| Answer» A. descartes | |
| 2. |
According to, -------- experience is the only source of knowledge |
| A. | rationalism |
| B. | empiricism |
| C. | idealism |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. empiricism | |
| 3. |
Who has said that mind has innate ideas |
| A. | spinoza |
| B. | kant |
| C. | descartes |
| D. | hume |
| Answer» C. descartes | |
| 4. |
‘Meditations’ is the work of------ |
| A. | kant |
| B. | descartes |
| C. | spinoza |
| D. | all these |
| Answer» B. descartes | |
| 5. |
Who among the following is a representative of Rationalism? |
| A. | hegel |
| B. | kant |
| C. | leibniz |
| D. | all these |
| Answer» C. leibniz | |
| 6. |
Interactionism is the Mind body theory of -------- |
| A. | hume |
| B. | berkeley |
| C. | descartes |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. descartes | |
| 7. |
Who among the following is not a German Philosopher? |
| A. | kant |
| B. | berkeley |
| C. | hegel |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. berkeley | |
| 8. |
------ is not a representative of Rationalism |
| A. | kant |
| B. | descartes |
| C. | spinoza |
| D. | all of these |
| Answer» A. kant | |
| 9. |
John Locke is -----Philosopher |
| A. | rationalist |
| B. | empiricist |
| C. | idealist |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. empiricist | |
| 10. |
Generally the rise of modern Philosophy had been marked by---------- |
| A. | critical thinking |
| B. | reflective spirit |
| C. | revolt against authority |
| D. | all these |
| Answer» D. all these | |
| 11. |
Leibniz defines substance or monads as |
| A. | physical object |
| B. | active force |
| C. | geometrical figure |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. active force | |
| 12. |
As an empiricist, Locke claims that all our knowledge is derived either through sensation or |
| A. | perception |
| B. | reflection |
| C. | thinking |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» B. reflection | |
| 13. |
Who among the following is a French Philosopher |
| A. | kant |
| B. | descartes |
| C. | plato |
| D. | aristotle |
| Answer» B. descartes | |
| 14. |
Who introduced the concept ‘Cogito ergosum’ |
| A. | spinoza |
| B. | leibniz |
| C. | kant |
| D. | descartes |
| Answer» D. descartes | |
| 15. |
‘Monadology’ is the work of------- |
| A. | kant |
| B. | descartes |
| C. | leibniz |
| D. | hegel |
| Answer» C. leibniz | |
| 16. |
Who among the following is a German philosopher |
| A. | plato |
| B. | spinoza |
| C. | kant |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. kant | |
| 17. |
------------ is an Idealist philosopher |
| A. | spinoza |
| B. | locke |
| C. | kant |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. kant | |
| 18. |
Whose ideal is ‘Real is Rational, Rational isReal’ |
| A. | descartes |
| B. | kant |
| C. | locke |
| D. | hegel |
| Answer» D. hegel | |
| 19. |
Who among the following propounded the theory of Psycho physicalparallelism |
| A. | descartes |
| B. | leibniz |
| C. | spinoza |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. spinoza | |
| 20. |
------ developed his philosophy on the foundation laid byFichte |
| A. | descartes |
| B. | hegel |
| C. | aristotle |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. hegel | |
| 21. |
Who is considered as the founder of Rationalism |
| A. | hume |
| B. | berkeley |
| C. | descartes |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. descartes | |
| 22. |
Which one of the following is not a work of Kant? |
| A. | critique of practical reason |
| B. | critique of pure reason |
| C. | meditations |
| D. | none |
| Answer» C. meditations | |
| 23. |
Who among the following is the author of ‘Monadology’ |
| A. | spinoza |
| B. | descartes |
| C. | hume |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» D. none of these | |
| 24. |
According to Descartes-----------as an absolute substance |
| A. | mind |
| B. | soul |
| C. | god |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. god | |
| 25. |
The rationalism of--------is heightened by Spinoza |
| A. | hume |
| B. | berkeley |
| C. | descartes |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. descartes | |
| 26. |
--- recognizes mind and matter as relative substances which are created by God |
| A. | kant |
| B. | descartes |
| C. | leibniz |
| D. | hegel |
| Answer» B. descartes | |
| 27. |
----- believes that there are no innate ideas in the mind |
| A. | plato |
| B. | spinoza |
| C. | kant |
| D. | locke |
| Answer» D. locke | |
| 28. |
Who among the following is obsessed with the intellectual love of God? |
| A. | spinoza |
| B. | leibniz |
| C. | kant |
| D. | descartes |
| Answer» A. spinoza | |
| 29. |
Who said ‘substance is a product of human imagination’ |
| A. | spinoza |
| B. | descartes |
| C. | locke |
| D. | hume |
| Answer» D. hume | |
| 30. |
-------suggests that the idea of substance is a complexidea |
| A. | spinoza |
| B. | berkeley |
| C. | hume |
| D. | locke |
| Answer» D. locke | |
| 31. |
According to ---------- , only mind and their ideas exist |
| A. | hume |
| B. | leibniz |
| C. | spinoza |
| D. | berkeley |
| Answer» D. berkeley | |
| 32. |
According to ----- God is an absolute substance |
| A. | kant |
| B. | descartes |
| C. | plato |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. descartes | |
| 33. |
’Ethics’ is the work of --------- |
| A. | descartes |
| B. | leibniz |
| C. | spinoza |
| D. | hegel |
| Answer» C. spinoza | |
| 34. |
Berkeley rejects Locke’s distinction between primary and secondary qualities because: |
| A. | all qualities are subjective |
| B. | only secondary qualities are subjective |
| C. | qualities are created by god |
| D. | qualities in here in substance |
| Answer» A. all qualities are subjective | |
| 35. |
For Descartes, the idea of soul |
| A. | is not related to reason |
| B. | is identical with reason |
| C. | contradicts reason |
| D. | does not contradict reason |
| Answer» A. is not related to reason | |
| 36. |
According to Kant belief in God is: |
| A. | accidental to ethics |
| B. | totally irrelevant to ethics |
| C. | contingent to ethics |
| D. | a presupposition of ethics |
| Answer» D. a presupposition of ethics | |
| 37. |
For Descartes the proposition ‘I think’ is self-verifying because |
| A. | it is a necessary truth. |
| B. | it is a logical truth. |
| C. | doubting it confirms it. |
| D. | thinking is my essence. |
| Answer» C. doubting it confirms it. | |
| 38. |
The primary aim of Descartes is |
| A. | to explain the relation between body and mind. |
| B. | to prove the existence of god. |
| C. | to refute the reality of the external world. |
| D. | to reach clear and certain knowledge. |
| Answer» D. to reach clear and certain knowledge. | |
| 39. |
Who called God as Natura Naturata? |
| A. | locke |
| B. | kant |
| C. | spinoza |
| D. | hume |
| Answer» C. spinoza | |
| 40. |
Who said that ‘Reason must approach nature not as a pupil, but as a judge’? |
| A. | kant |
| B. | locke |
| C. | hegel |
| D. | spinoza |
| Answer» A. kant | |
| 41. |
According to Kant _________ the proper objects of faith |
| A. | phenomena |
| B. | noumena |
| C. | both phenomena and noumena |
| D. | neither |
| Answer» B. noumena | |
| 42. |
Which one of the following is not the work of Immanuel Kant? |
| A. | critique of pure reason |
| B. | foundations of metaphysics of morals |
| C. | critique of practical reason |
| D. | the phenomenology of spirit |
| Answer» D. the phenomenology of spirit | |
| 43. |
Who highlighted the problem of personal identity first in modern western philosophy? |
| A. | berkeley |
| B. | locke |
| C. | spinoza |
| D. | descartes |
| Answer» B. locke | |
| 44. |
The concept of categories was advocated by : |
| A. | kant |
| B. | kant and aristotle |
| C. | kant and locke |
| D. | kant and berkeley |
| Answer» B. kant and aristotle | |
| 45. |
Who among the following held that space and time are apriori percepts ? |
| A. | pythagoras |
| B. | spinoza |
| C. | kant |
| D. | hegel |
| Answer» C. kant | |
| 46. |
According to Descartes, the idea of God is ------- |
| A. | finite |
| B. | fictitious |
| C. | innate |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. innate | |
| 47. |
According to Descartes, the infinite substance stands related to finite substance as ----- to ----- |
| A. | universal, particular |
| B. | many, one |
| C. | one, particular |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. one, particular | |
| 48. |
Who has said that the mind has innate ideas |
| A. | hume |
| B. | berkeley |
| C. | leibniz |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» D. none of these | |
| 49. |
The secondary properties of substance are known as |
| A. | attributes |
| B. | modes |
| C. | relative property |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. modes | |
| 50. |
Spinoza claims that the things which make up the world related to God as the properties of ------ to its concepts |
| A. | quality |
| B. | theorem |
| C. | geometrical figure |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. geometrical figure | |
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