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70+ Western Metaphysics Solved MCQs

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

51.

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
52.

According to Kant ----------judgments are always aposteriori

A. analytical
B. synthetic
C. ethical
D. none of these
Answer» B. synthetic
53.

According to -----, monads are windowless

A. descartes
B. leibniz
C. spinoza
D. hegel
Answer» B. leibniz
54.

In Transcendental Aesthetic, Kant discusses the theory of -----

A. space and time
B. morality
C. god
D. none of these
Answer» A. space and time
55.

----- believes that there are no innate ideas in the mind

A. plato
B. spinoza
C. kant
D. locke
Answer» D. locke
56.

‘To be is to be perceived’ is a theory of---------

A. descartes
B. leibniz
C. spinoza
D. berkeley
Answer» D. berkeley
57.

Leibniz belongs to ---------school

A. rationalism
B. empiricism
C. idealism
D. none of these
Answer» A. rationalism
58.

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
59.

Berkeley is --------

A. pragmatist
B. rationalist
C. empiricist
D. none of these
Answer» C. empiricist
60.

According to Berkeley matter is an----------

A. immanent idea
B. abstract idea
C. pure idea
D. none of these
Answer» B. abstract idea
61.

Pineal gland is the ------------ of the soul according to Descartes

A. subject
B. controller
C. seat
D. none of these
Answer» C. seat
62.

The distinction between impression and idea was made by

A. kant
B. locke
C. hume
D. berkeley
Answer» C. hume
63.

According to Berkeley

A. ideas but not the minds exist
B. minds but not the ideas exist
C. both ideas and the minds exist
D. neither ideas nor the minds exist
Answer» C. both ideas and the minds exist
64.

Who among the following rejected matter as an abstract idea

A. hume
B. berkeley
C. descartes
D. none of these
Answer» B. berkeley
65.

Who introduced the concept ‘Cogito ergosum’

A. spinoza
B. leibniz
C. kant
D. descartes
Answer» D. descartes
66.

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
67.

Who called God as Natura Naturata?

A. locke
B. kant
C. spinoza
D. hume
Answer» C. spinoza
68.

------ claims a material world which exists apart from perceiving mind, is unnecessary and false

A. hume
B. berkeley
C. descartes
D. none of these
Answer» B. berkeley
69.

According to Leibniz the monads are ------ and everything is potential or implicit in it

A. modifications
B. windowless
C. strong
D. none of these
Answer» B. windowless
70.

The Critique of Pure Reason is really a treatise on ----- with special reference to science

A. epistemology
B. metaphysics
C. axiology
D. none of these
Answer» A. epistemology
71.

Locke and Berkeley belong to -------- school

A. empiricism
B. rationalism
C. idealism
D. none of thes
Answer» A. empiricism
72.

According to Spinoza body and mind

A. interact with each other
B. are causally related
C. are parallel to each other
D. none of these
Answer» C. are parallel to each other
73.

The first Philosophy refers to———

A. aesthetics
B. metaphysics
C. epistemology
D. ethics
Answer» B. metaphysics
74.

--------- defines monads as Centres of force or energy

A. kant
B. hegel
C. leibniz
D. hume
Answer» C. leibniz
75.

Who is the principal exponent of representative realism

A. berkeley
B. locke
C. hume
D. none of these
Answer» B. locke
76.

-------- is the view that God is the immanent principle of universe

A. pluralism
B. dualism
C. pantheism
D. atheism
Answer» C. pantheism

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