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Modern Western Philosophy | Set 3

1. ‘All our reasoning about causality is derived from nothing but custom’. This relates to -----

Correct : D. Hume

2. Kant’s Rational theology deals with ---------

Correct : A. The idea of God

3. Who among the following is an Idealist philosopher

Correct : B. Kant

4. Descartes took -------- as the model of his philosophical method

Correct : B. Mathematics

5. ------ is not a secondary quality according to Locke

Correct : C. Extension

6. ‘Real is Rational, Rational is Real’ is the concept of ----------

Correct : D. Hegel

7. Who is considered as the father of modern philosophy

Correct : B. Descartes

8. According to Kant --------- judgments are always a priori

Correct : C. Analytical

9. Which one of the following is a primary quality according to Locke

Correct : C. Extension

10. Tabula rasa refers to --------

Correct : A. Empty cabinet

11. Kant’s Rational cosmology deals with ----------

Correct : C. The idea of one world

12. Which one of the following is a work of Kant

Correct : C. Critique of pure reason

13. Psycho physical parallelism is a theory of -----

Correct : C. Spinoza

14. Hegel developed his philosophy on the foundation laid by -------

Correct : B. Fichte

15. Kant’s Rational Psychology deals with ------

Correct : C. Unity of self

16. -------- is the method adopted by Kant

Correct : D. Transcendental

17. --------- is a mind body theory of Descartes

Correct : B. Interactionism

18. According to Kant , knowledge of things – in –itself is called -------

Correct : C. Noumena

19. Modern western philosophers unlike the medieval thinkers were critical about ___________.

Correct : B. dogmatic theology

20. Transcendentalism 3. Descartes 4. Dialectical materialism 4. Hegel

Correct : C. 2, 4, 3, 1

21. Modernism marked a clear shift ___________.

Correct : A. from faith to reason

22. European __________ is subdivided into the Humanistic and the Natural Science period.

Correct : C. Renaissance

23. Modern western philosophers showed increased interest in ___________.

Correct : B. scientific inquiry

24. In the ___________ era, freedom of thought and rational inquiry became the watchwords of philosophy.

Correct : D. modern

25. _____________ is considered as the father of modern western philosophy as well as rationalism

Correct : A. Descartes

26. Find the odd one out.

Correct : A. Aristotle

27. _________ is/are not applicable to Descartes. 1. French 2. Medieval 3. Empiricist d) Rationalist

Correct : D. 2 and 3

28. _________ is/are applicable to Descartes and Locke. 1. Medieval 2. Modern 3. Rationalist 4. Empiricist

Correct : B. Only 2

29. __________ propositions need no proof.

Correct : B. Self-evident

30. According to Descartes, deduction and _________ are the means to attain true knowledge.

Correct : C. intuition

31. According to Descartes, ___________ ideas are clear and distinct.

Correct : A. innate

32. ‘Cogito ergo sum’ refers to the idea of __________.

Correct : C. the Self

33. Cartesian skepticism is precisely _____________.

Correct : B. methodological

34. Dualism recognizes ____________.

Correct : B. two substances

35. ___________ is not applicable to Spinoza. 1. Monism 2. Rationalism 3. Dualism 4. Pluralism

Correct : D. 3 and 4

36. ‘A substance cannot depend on anything else, and hence there can be only one substance.’ This position is precisely termed ______________.

Correct : C. Monism

37. Psychophysical ___________ is the view of Spinoza.

Correct : B. parallelism

38. According to Spinoza, Reality is ____________.

Correct : A. God or Nature

39. ‘Mind and matter are not substances’. This is the point of Spinoza’s disagreement with _______.

Correct : D. Descartes

40. Leibnitz conceived plurality of __________ substances.

Correct : A. spiritual

41. ‘No two monads can ever have any causal relation to each other’. Hence, they are __________.

Correct : B. windowless

42. According to Leibnitz, Monads are ___________ in number.

Correct : C. infinite

43. According to Leibnitz, ____________ pre-established the harmony between monads.

Correct : B. God

44. Spinoza’s monism is a solution suggested to resolve the problem of ____________ in Cartesian philosophy.

Correct : C. Dualism

45. ___________ was suggested as a hypothesis to solve the problem of mind-body interaction.

Correct : C. Occasionalism

46. According to Descartes, the very idea of a perfect being implies His existence. This is the _______ proof of the existence of God.

Correct : A. Ontological

47. ___________ recognize sense perception as the source and standard of knowledge.

Correct : B. Empiricists

48. ____________ is the author of Essay Concerning Human Understanding.

Correct : D. Locke

49. Sensation and reflection are the primary sources of all ideas. This is the postulate of _________.

Correct : C. Empiricism

50. According to Locke, we understand the internal states of mind by __________.

Correct : C. Reflection

51. For ______________, knowledge is a posteriori.

Correct : D. Empiricists

52. For ______________, true knowledge is a priori.

Correct : D. Rationalists

53. According to Locke, qualities are divided into __________.

Correct : C. primary and secondary

54. ____________ is the dictum of Subjective Idealism.

Correct : B. esse est percipi

55. The term Tabula rasa implies the rejection of _____________.

Correct : C. innate ideas

56. Mentalism is another term for _____________.

Correct : A. Subjective Idealism

57. Ideas do not exist without a perceiving mind. This is the argument of __________.

Correct : C. Berkeley

58. _________ rejected the existence of a material substance apart from the perceiver’s idea.

Correct : A. Berkeley

59. Hume divided all perceptions into ____________.

Correct : B. impressions and ideas

60. __________ proposed the Law of Association of Ideas.

Correct : D. Hume

61. According to Hume, our idea of causation is only the result of a constant __________ of ideas.

Correct : D. conjunction

62. According to Hume, our idea of causation does not imply ________.

Correct : B. necessity

63. In Locke’s system, __________ is a primary quality.

Correct : D. extension

64. According to Locke, solidity and extension are ___________ qualities.

Correct : A. primary

65. _________ is not included in Locke’s catalogue of primary qualities.

Correct : C. colour

66. According to Locke, there are no _________ ideas and hence mind is a tabula rasa.

Correct : C. innate

67. ‘If no one perceives a thing, God always perceives everything’. This is the view of ________.

Correct : A. Berkeley

68. Both Locke and Berkeley are ____________.

Correct : A. Empiricists

69. ___________ ends up in skepticism regarding any certain knowledge.

Correct : D. Hume

70. ___________ is the author of the Critique of Pure Reason.

Correct : B. Kant

71. In a/an ___________ proposition, the predicate is part of the subject.

Correct : B. analytic

72. ___________ knowledge is independent of sense experience.

Correct : A. a priori

73. According to Kant, causality is a/an ____________ concept.

Correct : B. synthetic a priori

74. Noumena refer to ___________.

Correct : A. thing-in-itself

75. According to Kant, sensibility and __________ constitute knowledge.

Correct : C. understanding

76. According to Kant, space and time are the ___________ conditions of all knowledge.

Correct : B. a priori

77. According to Kant, human reason cannot have genuine knowledge about the ____________.

Correct : B. noumena

78. In Kant’s table of judgments, universal, particular and singular represent ___________.

Correct : D. quantity

79. __________ is/are applicable to Hegel. 1. German 2. Materialist 3. Idealist 4. Absolutist

Correct : B. All except 2

80. Dialectic has a central place in the philosophy of ____________.

Correct : C. both (a) and (b)

81. Marx had rejected the __________ in Hegelian philosophy.

Correct : A. idealism

82. “The real is rational and the rational is real”. This is the crux of _________ philosophy.

Correct : C. Hegelian

83. The first of the dialectical triad is ___________.

Correct : A. thesis

84. In Hegelian dialectic, __________ is the synthesis stage.

Correct : C. Becoming

85. Dialectical development involves the negation of ____________.

Correct : D. negation

86. Berkeley and Hegel are ____________.

Correct : B. Idealists

87. In Hegel’s philosophy, ____________ is the ultimate reality.

Correct : D. Absolute Idea

88. The source of Marxian materialism is ____________.

Correct : A. Feuerbach

89. __________ is the author of Phenomenology of Spirit.

Correct : C. Hegel

90. Marx insisted on the philosopher’s task of ____________ the world.

Correct : B. changing

91. According to Marx, ___________ is the lever of social change.

Correct : B. Class war

92. The necessary and basic cause of class war, according to Marx, is ___________.

Correct : A. economic

93. Marxian revolution aims at the liberation of the ____________ class.

Correct : C. working

94. Marx conceived ____________as the necessary culmination of class war.

Correct : B. proletariat dictatorship

95. __________ was closely associated with Marx in developing his philosophy.

Correct : A. Engels

96. Bourgeoisie vs. Proletariat determines the class conflict in ___________ society.

Correct : C. Capitalist

97. Who among the following is NOT a rationalist thinker?

Correct : A. John Locke

98. Who among the following is an empiricist thinker?

Correct : D. David Hume

99. Who among the following is a rationalist thinker?

Correct : D. Rene Descartes

100. The view that knowledge is attained through reason not the senses is called:

Correct : C. Rationalism