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) .
| 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 | |
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