McqMate
| 201. |
‘All our reasoning about causality is derived from nothing but custom’. This relates to ----- |
| A. | Kant |
| B. | Hegel |
| C. | Leibniz |
| D. | Hume |
| Answer» D. Hume | |
| 202. |
Kant’s Rational theology deals with --------- |
| A. | The idea of God |
| B. | Unity of self |
| C. | The idea of world |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» A. The idea of God | |
| 203. |
Who among the following is an Idealist philosopher |
| A. | Descartes |
| B. | Kant |
| C. | Locke |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Kant | |
| 204. |
Descartes took -------- as the model of his philosophical method |
| A. | Religion |
| B. | Mathematics |
| C. | Sociology |
| D. | Arts |
| Answer» B. Mathematics | |
| 205. |
------ is not a secondary quality according to Locke |
| A. | Taste |
| B. | Coluor |
| C. | Extension |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Extension | |
| 206. |
‘Real is Rational, Rational is Real’ is the concept of ---------- |
| A. | Locke |
| B. | Leibniz |
| C. | Spinoza |
| D. | Hegel |
| Answer» D. Hegel | |
| 207. |
Who is considered as the father of modern philosophy |
| A. | Kant |
| B. | Descartes |
| C. | Both (a) and (b) |
| D. | Neither (a) nor (b) |
| Answer» B. Descartes | |
| 208. |
According to Kant --------- judgments are always a priori |
| A. | Synthetic |
| B. | Ethical |
| C. | Analytical |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Analytical | |
| 209. |
Which one of the following is a primary quality according to Locke |
| A. | Colour |
| B. | Figure |
| C. | Extension |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Extension | |
| 210. |
Tabula rasa refers to -------- |
| A. | Empty cabinet |
| B. | Subtle emotion |
| C. | Knowledge |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» A. Empty cabinet | |
| 211. |
Kant’s Rational cosmology deals with ---------- |
| A. | Unity of self |
| B. | The idea of God |
| C. | The idea of one world |
| D. | All these |
| Answer» C. The idea of one world | |
| 212. |
Which one of the following is a work of Kant |
| A. | Ethics |
| B. | Monadology |
| C. | Critique of pure reason |
| D. | All of these |
| Answer» C. Critique of pure reason | |
| 213. |
Psycho physical parallelism is a theory of ----- |
| A. | Descartes |
| B. | Leibniz |
| C. | Spinoza |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Spinoza | |
| 214. |
Hegel developed his philosophy on the foundation laid by ------- |
| A. | Descartes |
| B. | Fichte |
| C. | Aristotle |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Fichte | |
| 215. |
Kant’s Rational Psychology deals with ------ |
| A. | The idea of world |
| B. | The idea of God |
| C. | Unity of self |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Unity of self | |
| 216. |
-------- is the method adopted by Kant |
| A. | Inductive |
| B. | Deductive |
| C. | Empirical |
| D. | Transcendental |
| Answer» D. Transcendental | |
| 217. |
--------- is a mind body theory of Descartes |
| A. | Psycho physical parallelism |
| B. | Interactionism |
| C. | Pre-established harmony |
| D. | All these |
| Answer» B. Interactionism | |
| 218. |
According to Kant , knowledge of things – in –itself is called ------- |
| A. | Phenomena |
| B. | Substance |
| C. | Noumena |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Noumena | |
| 219. |
Modern western philosophers unlike the medieval thinkers were critical about ___________. |
| A. | scientific advance |
| B. | dogmatic theology |
| C. | rationalism |
| D. | all these |
| Answer» B. dogmatic theology | |
| 220. |
Transcendentalism 3. Descartes 4. Dialectical materialism 4. Hegel |
| A. | 4, 2, 3,1 |
| B. | 1, 3, 4, 2 |
| C. | 2, 4, 3, 1 |
| D. | 3, 4, 1, 2 |
| Answer» C. 2, 4, 3, 1 | |
| 221. |
Modernism marked a clear shift ___________. |
| A. | from faith to reason |
| B. | from reason to faith |
| C. | from science to religion |
| D. | from religion to science |
| Answer» A. from faith to reason | |
| 222. |
European __________ is subdivided into the Humanistic and the Natural Science period. |
| A. | Philosophy |
| B. | Theology |
| C. | Renaissance |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Renaissance | |
| 223. |
Modern western philosophers showed increased interest in ___________. |
| A. | theology |
| B. | scientific inquiry |
| C. | astronomy |
| D. | all these |
| Answer» B. scientific inquiry | |
| 224. |
In the ___________ era, freedom of thought and rational inquiry became the watchwords of philosophy. |
| A. | ancient |
| B. | classical |
| C. | medieval |
| D. | modern |
| Answer» D. modern | |
| 225. |
_____________ is considered as the father of modern western philosophy as well as rationalism |
| A. | Descartes |
| B. | Kant |
| C. | Hume |
| D. | Socrates |
| Answer» A. Descartes | |
| 226. |
Find the odd one out. |
| A. | Aristotle |
| B. | Kant |
| C. | Hume |
| D. | Descartes |
| Answer» A. Aristotle | |
| 227. |
_________ is/are not applicable to Descartes. 1. French 2. Medieval 3. Empiricist d) Rationalist |
| A. | 1 and 2 |
| B. | 2 and 4 |
| C. | Only 2 |
| D. | 2 and 3 |
| Answer» D. 2 and 3 | |
| 228. |
_________ is/are applicable to Descartes and Locke. 1. Medieval 2. Modern 3. Rationalist 4. Empiricist |
| A. | 1 and 4 |
| B. | Only 2 |
| C. | Only 3 |
| D. | 2 and 4 |
| Answer» B. Only 2 | |
| 229. |
__________ propositions need no proof. |
| A. | Universal |
| B. | Self-evident |
| C. | Particular |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Self-evident | |
| 230. |
According to Descartes, deduction and _________ are the means to attain true knowledge. |
| A. | experience |
| B. | logic |
| C. | intuition |
| D. | all these |
| Answer» C. intuition | |
| 231. |
According to Descartes, ___________ ideas are clear and distinct. |
| A. | innate |
| B. | adventitious |
| C. | factitious |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. innate | |
| 232. |
‘Cogito ergo sum’ refers to the idea of __________. |
| A. | God |
| B. | World |
| C. | the Self |
| D. | Reason |
| Answer» C. the Self | |
| 233. |
Cartesian skepticism is precisely _____________. |
| A. | ontological |
| B. | methodological |
| C. | ethical |
| D. | axiological |
| Answer» B. methodological | |
| 234. |
Dualism recognizes ____________. |
| A. | one and only one substance |
| B. | two substances |
| C. | many substances |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. two substances | |
| 235. |
___________ is not applicable to Spinoza. 1. Monism 2. Rationalism 3. Dualism 4. Pluralism |
| A. | Only 3 |
| B. | Only 1 |
| C. | 1 and 2 |
| D. | 3 and 4 |
| Answer» D. 3 and 4 | |
| 236. |
‘A substance cannot depend on anything else, and hence there can be only one substance.’ This position is precisely termed ______________. |
| A. | Rationalism |
| B. | Dualism |
| C. | Monism |
| D. | Empiricism |
| Answer» C. Monism | |
| 237. |
Psychophysical ___________ is the view of Spinoza. |
| A. | dualism |
| B. | parallelism |
| C. | interactionism |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. parallelism | |
| 238. |
According to Spinoza, Reality is ____________. |
| A. | God or Nature |
| B. | Neither God nor Nature |
| C. | Only God |
| D. | Only Nature |
| Answer» A. God or Nature | |
| 239. |
‘Mind and matter are not substances’. This is the point of Spinoza’s disagreement with _______. |
| A. | Kant |
| B. | Hume |
| C. | Hegel |
| D. | Descartes |
| Answer» D. Descartes | |
| 240. |
Leibnitz conceived plurality of __________ substances. |
| A. | spiritual |
| B. | physical |
| C. | material |
| D. | all these |
| Answer» A. spiritual | |
| 241. |
‘No two monads can ever have any causal relation to each other’. Hence, they are __________. |
| A. | interactive |
| B. | windowless |
| C. | both (a) and (b) |
| D. | neither (a) nor (b) |
| Answer» B. windowless | |
| 242. |
According to Leibnitz, Monads are ___________ in number. |
| A. | two |
| B. | one |
| C. | infinite |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. infinite | |
| 243. |
According to Leibnitz, ____________ pre-established the harmony between monads. |
| A. | None |
| B. | God |
| C. | Mind |
| D. | Matter |
| Answer» B. God | |
| 244. |
Spinoza’s monism is a solution suggested to resolve the problem of ____________ in Cartesian philosophy. |
| A. | Rationalism |
| B. | God |
| C. | Dualism |
| D. | Cogito |
| Answer» C. Dualism | |
| 245. |
___________ was suggested as a hypothesis to solve the problem of mind-body interaction. |
| A. | Dualism |
| B. | Rationalism |
| C. | Occasionalism |
| D. | all these |
| Answer» C. Occasionalism | |
| 246. |
According to Descartes, the very idea of a perfect being implies His existence. This is the _______ proof of the existence of God. |
| A. | Ontological |
| B. | Cosmological |
| C. | Causal |
| D. | All these |
| Answer» A. Ontological | |
| 247. |
___________ recognize sense perception as the source and standard of knowledge. |
| A. | Rationalists |
| B. | Empiricists |
| C. | Idealists |
| D. | Intuitionists |
| Answer» B. Empiricists | |
| 248. |
____________ is the author of Essay Concerning Human Understanding. |
| A. | Spinoza |
| B. | Descartes |
| C. | Hegel |
| D. | Locke |
| Answer» D. Locke | |
| 249. |
Sensation and reflection are the primary sources of all ideas. This is the postulate of _________. |
| A. | Rationalism |
| B. | Idealism |
| C. | Empiricism |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Empiricism | |
| 250. |
According to Locke, we understand the internal states of mind by __________. |
| A. | Sensation |
| B. | Intuition |
| C. | Reflection |
| D. | All these |
| Answer» C. Reflection | |
| 251. |
For ______________, knowledge is a posteriori. |
| A. | Rationalists |
| B. | Idealists |
| C. | Intuitionists |
| D. | Empiricists |
| Answer» D. Empiricists | |
| 252. |
For ______________, true knowledge is a priori. |
| A. | Empiricists |
| B. | Idealists |
| C. | Intuitionists |
| D. | Rationalists |
| Answer» D. Rationalists | |
| 253. |
According to Locke, qualities are divided into __________. |
| A. | a priori and a posteriori |
| B. | physical and mental |
| C. | primary and secondary |
| D. | empirical and spiritual |
| Answer» C. primary and secondary | |
| 254. |
____________ is the dictum of Subjective Idealism. |
| A. | Cogito ergo sum |
| B. | esse est percipi |
| C. | both (a) and (b) |
| D. | neither (a) nor (b) |
| Answer» B. esse est percipi | |
| 255. |
The term Tabula rasa implies the rejection of _____________. |
| A. | sense experience |
| B. | empiricism |
| C. | innate ideas |
| D. | primary qualities |
| Answer» C. innate ideas | |
| 256. |
Mentalism is another term for _____________. |
| A. | Subjective Idealism |
| B. | Rationalism |
| C. | Absolute Idealism |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» A. Subjective Idealism | |
| 257. |
Ideas do not exist without a perceiving mind. This is the argument of __________. |
| A. | Locke |
| B. | Spinoza |
| C. | Berkeley |
| D. | Marx |
| Answer» C. Berkeley | |
| 258. |
_________ rejected the existence of a material substance apart from the perceiver’s idea. |
| A. | Berkeley |
| B. | Locke |
| C. | Spinoza |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» A. Berkeley | |
| 259. |
Hume divided all perceptions into ____________. |
| A. | primary and secondary |
| B. | impressions and ideas |
| C. | matter and mind |
| D. | innate and acquired |
| Answer» B. impressions and ideas | |
| 260. |
__________ proposed the Law of Association of Ideas. |
| A. | Locke |
| B. | Spinoza |
| C. | Berkeley |
| D. | Hume |
| Answer» D. Hume | |
| 261. |
According to Hume, our idea of causation is only the result of a constant __________ of ideas. |
| A. | impression |
| B. | dissociation |
| C. | separation |
| D. | conjunction |
| Answer» D. conjunction | |
| 262. |
According to Hume, our idea of causation does not imply ________. |
| A. | perception |
| B. | necessity |
| C. | contingency |
| D. | any of these |
| Answer» B. necessity | |
| 263. |
In Locke’s system, __________ is a primary quality. |
| A. | colour |
| B. | sound |
| C. | smell |
| D. | extension |
| Answer» D. extension | |
| 264. |
According to Locke, solidity and extension are ___________ qualities. |
| A. | primary |
| B. | secondary |
| C. | both (a) and (b) |
| D. | neither (a) nor (b) |
| Answer» A. primary | |
| 265. |
_________ is not included in Locke’s catalogue of primary qualities. |
| A. | extension |
| B. | solidity |
| C. | colour |
| D. | figure |
| Answer» C. colour | |
| 266. |
According to Locke, there are no _________ ideas and hence mind is a tabula rasa. |
| A. | clear |
| B. | sensible |
| C. | innate |
| D. | complex |
| Answer» C. innate | |
| 267. |
‘If no one perceives a thing, God always perceives everything’. This is the view of ________. |
| A. | Berkeley |
| B. | Spinoza |
| C. | Descartes |
| D. | Hume |
| Answer» A. Berkeley | |
| 268. |
Both Locke and Berkeley are ____________. |
| A. | Empiricists |
| B. | Idealists |
| C. | Occasionalists |
| D. | Rationalists |
| Answer» A. Empiricists | |
| 269. |
___________ ends up in skepticism regarding any certain knowledge. |
| A. | Spinoza |
| B. | Descartes |
| C. | Locke |
| D. | Hume |
| Answer» D. Hume | |
| 270. |
___________ is the author of the Critique of Pure Reason. |
| A. | Berkeley |
| B. | Kant |
| C. | Locke |
| D. | Descartes |
| Answer» B. Kant | |
| 271. |
In a/an ___________ proposition, the predicate is part of the subject. |
| A. | synthetic |
| B. | analytic |
| C. | empirical |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. analytic | |
| 272. |
___________ knowledge is independent of sense experience. |
| A. | a priori |
| B. | a posteriori |
| C. | both (a) and (b) |
| D. | neither (a) nor (b) |
| Answer» A. a priori | |
| 273. |
According to Kant, causality is a/an ____________ concept. |
| A. | empirical |
| B. | synthetic a priori |
| C. | synthetic a posteriori |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. synthetic a priori | |
| 274. |
Noumena refer to ___________. |
| A. | thing-in-itself |
| B. | sensible objects |
| C. | empirical reality |
| D. | all these |
| Answer» A. thing-in-itself | |
| 275. |
According to Kant, sensibility and __________ constitute knowledge. |
| A. | perception |
| B. | causality |
| C. | understanding |
| D. | noumena |
| Answer» C. understanding | |
| 276. |
According to Kant, space and time are the ___________ conditions of all knowledge. |
| A. | possible |
| B. | a priori |
| C. | a posteriori |
| D. | perceived |
| Answer» B. a priori | |
| 277. |
According to Kant, human reason cannot have genuine knowledge about the ____________. |
| A. | phenomena |
| B. | noumena |
| C. | both (a) and (b) |
| D. | neither (a) nor (b) |
| Answer» B. noumena | |
| 278. |
In Kant’s table of judgments, universal, particular and singular represent ___________. |
| A. | quality |
| B. | modality |
| C. | relation |
| D. | quantity |
| Answer» D. quantity | |
| 279. |
__________ is/are applicable to Hegel. 1. German 2. Materialist 3. Idealist 4. Absolutist |
| A. | Only 1 |
| B. | All except 2 |
| C. | All except 4 |
| D. | Both 1 and 2 |
| Answer» B. All except 2 | |
| 280. |
Dialectic has a central place in the philosophy of ____________. |
| A. | Hegel |
| B. | Marx |
| C. | both (a) and (b) |
| D. | neither (a) nor (b) |
| Answer» C. both (a) and (b) | |
| 281. |
Marx had rejected the __________ in Hegelian philosophy. |
| A. | idealism |
| B. | dialectic |
| C. | materialism |
| D. | all these |
| Answer» A. idealism | |
| 282. |
“The real is rational and the rational is real”. This is the crux of _________ philosophy. |
| A. | Cartesian |
| B. | Kantian |
| C. | Hegelian |
| D. | Marxian |
| Answer» C. Hegelian | |
| 283. |
The first of the dialectical triad is ___________. |
| A. | thesis |
| B. | antithesis |
| C. | synthesis |
| D. | all these |
| Answer» A. thesis | |
| 284. |
In Hegelian dialectic, __________ is the synthesis stage. |
| A. | Being |
| B. | Non-being |
| C. | Becoming |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Becoming | |
| 285. |
Dialectical development involves the negation of ____________. |
| A. | Becoming |
| B. | reasoning |
| C. | relation |
| D. | negation |
| Answer» D. negation | |
| 286. |
Berkeley and Hegel are ____________. |
| A. | Empiricists |
| B. | Idealists |
| C. | Materialists |
| D. | Skeptics |
| Answer» B. Idealists | |
| 287. |
In Hegel’s philosophy, ____________ is the ultimate reality. |
| A. | God |
| B. | Dialectics |
| C. | Material world |
| D. | Absolute Idea |
| Answer» D. Absolute Idea | |
| 288. |
The source of Marxian materialism is ____________. |
| A. | Feuerbach |
| B. | Hegel |
| C. | Engels |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» A. Feuerbach | |
| 289. |
__________ is the author of Phenomenology of Spirit. |
| A. | Feuerbach |
| B. | Engels |
| C. | Hegel |
| D. | Marx |
| Answer» C. Hegel | |
| 290. |
Marx insisted on the philosopher’s task of ____________ the world. |
| A. | interpreting |
| B. | changing |
| C. | understanding |
| D. | negating |
| Answer» B. changing | |
| 291. |
According to Marx, ___________ is the lever of social change. |
| A. | Absolute Idea |
| B. | Class war |
| C. | Love |
| D. | God |
| Answer» B. Class war | |
| 292. |
The necessary and basic cause of class war, according to Marx, is ___________. |
| A. | economic |
| B. | cultural |
| C. | religious |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. economic | |
| 293. |
Marxian revolution aims at the liberation of the ____________ class. |
| A. | ruling |
| B. | bourgeois |
| C. | working |
| D. | noble |
| Answer» C. working | |
| 294. |
Marx conceived ____________as the necessary culmination of class war. |
| A. | dialectics |
| B. | proletariat dictatorship |
| C. | capitalism |
| D. | historical materialism |
| Answer» B. proletariat dictatorship | |
| 295. |
__________ was closely associated with Marx in developing his philosophy. |
| A. | Engels |
| B. | Hegel |
| C. | Feuerbach |
| D. | Lenin |
| Answer» A. Engels | |
| 296. |
Bourgeoisie vs. Proletariat determines the class conflict in ___________ society. |
| A. | Feudal |
| B. | Communist |
| C. | Capitalist |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. Capitalist | |
| 297. |
Who among the following is NOT a rationalist thinker? |
| A. | John Locke |
| B. | Rene Descartes |
| C. | Benedict Spinoza |
| D. | W. Leibniz |
| Answer» A. John Locke | |
| 298. |
Who among the following is an empiricist thinker? |
| A. | Rene Descartes |
| B. | Benedict Spinoza |
| C. | William Leibniz |
| D. | David Hume |
| Answer» D. David Hume | |
| 299. |
Who among the following is a rationalist thinker? |
| A. | John Locke |
| B. | George Berkeley |
| C. | David Hume |
| D. | Rene Descartes |
| Answer» D. Rene Descartes | |
| 300. |
The view that knowledge is attained through reason not the senses is called: |
| A. | Idealism |
| B. | Positivism |
| C. | Rationalism |
| D. | Empiricism |
| Answer» C. Rationalism | |
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