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Western Philosophy | Set 1

1. The original principle of this universe is------- according to Thales

Correct : A. water

2. Thales is a------ philosopher

Correct : A. milesian

3. -------- was counted among the Seven Wise Men

Correct : C. thales

4. The arche of things is apeiron, according to ------

Correct : D. anaximander

5. According to Anaximenes--- is the first principle

Correct : D. air

6. Who said number is the essence and basis of all things?

Correct : B. pythagoras

7. Who is known as the Father of Western Philosophy?

Correct : A. thales

8. Who advocated theory of atoms?

Correct : B. democritus

9. Who is the main atomist?

Correct : B. leucippus

10. Protagoras is a ------Philosopher

Correct : A. sophist

11. Man is the measure of all things, according to ------

Correct : D. protagoras

12. Democritus and Leucippus are belonging to------ school

Correct : B. atomist

13. ----- was the first Athenian born Philosopher

Correct : D. socrates

14. Knowledge is relative associated with

Correct : A. protagoras

15. Maieutic method is by ------Philosopher

Correct : C. socrates

16. Who said that the unexamined life is not worth living?

Correct : C. socrates

17. Socrates is a prominent ------ philosopher

Correct : A. greek

18. Whose doctrine is ?Know Thyself??

Correct : D. socrates

19. Socrates is a mentor of --------

Correct : C. plato

20. ---- invented the dialectic method of finding truth through conversation

Correct : A. socrates

21. Athens where Plato established ------, the first university in the Western world

Correct : C. academy

22. In his famous ?Allegory of the Cave,? ----- relates a story illustrating the journey of the soul from ignorance to knowledge.

Correct : A. plato

23. The Republic is the famous work of ---------

Correct : C. plato

24. Theory of truth lies in the theory of Ideas is the philosophy of

Correct : D. plato

25. Who distinguished world of ideas and physical world?

Correct : A. plato

26. Aristotle mentioned theory of truth in his work------

Correct : D. metaphysics

27. For Plato, ---- are eternal ideas beyond the physical world.

Correct : A. forms

28. Who wrote Symposium?

Correct : C. plato

29. Aristotle was a student of ---

Correct : A. plato

30. Who founded a school in Athens called Lyceum.

Correct : A. aristotle

31. ?There is no form without matter and no matter without form.?

Correct : D. aristotle

32. Matter is the substance out of which everything in the world is made is the statement of -----

Correct : C. aristotle

33. Who discovered four causes that govern change in everything?

Correct : B. aristotle

34. Who believed that God created the world out of nothing and before God created the world nothing existed?

Correct : D. st. augustine

35. The City of God is the work of ----

Correct : A. st. augustine

36. ------- predicted an eclipse of the sun

Correct : A. thales

37. Who was the first Milesian materialist philosopher?

Correct : D. thales

38. The major source of Thales?s philosophy is by

Correct : D. aristotle

39. Who said that living things are always moist?

Correct : C. tales

40. Anaximander belongs to --------

Correct : B. miletus

41. Anaximander, a philosopher came after ------

Correct : D. thales

42. apeiron in Anaximander means -----

Correct : B. infinite

43. Anaximander's cosmogony gives rise to a

Correct : C. geocentric

44. Who said that in the beginning man was similar to a different animal, namely, a fish.

Correct : A. anaximander

45. The thinkers of Milesian school were the thinkers of ------

Correct : B. nature

46. Pythagoras was born on-------

Correct : A. samos

47. Who believed in the immortality, transmigration, and reincarnation of souls?

Correct : C. pythagoras

48. Who included various dietary restrictions against meat and beans.

Correct : B. pythagoras

49. Central to Pythagoreanism is the idea that --------- accounts take precedence over material things.

Correct : A. numbers

50. ------is a Philosopher who made a distinction between mind and matter

Correct : A. anaxagoras

51. Who said that everything is a mixture of earth, air, fire, and water

Correct : D. anaxagoras

52. ------- philosopher is the main source of Anaxagoras

Correct : C. plato

53. -----gave a power and grandeur to Athenian Democracy

Correct : A. pericles

54. -- --is an important element introduced by Anaxagoras into his philosophy and it is the cause of motion.

Correct : D. mind/ nous

55. The atomists are the last pre-Socratics and they follow------

Correct : A. physis

56. The word atom means ----

Correct : D. uncuttable

57. ------is believed to be a disciple of Leucippus

Correct : B. democritus

58. ------ say that all things consist of a single kind of matter broken into tiny particles.

Correct : C. atomists

59. Who claimed that there are two fundamental types of elements: atoms and void.

Correct : B. atomists

60. Who held that the atoms were so small as to be invisible?

Correct : A. democritus

61. Sophia which means -----

Correct : A. wisdom

62. Protagoras a native of --------in northeast Greece

Correct : D. abdera

63. Who was the first of the professional Sophists?

Correct : C. protagoras

64. Who said that instead of speaking well think well?

Correct : D. socrates

65. Truth and On the Gods are the woks of -------

Correct : C. protagoras

66. ------ were more concerned with public speaking, rather than thinking well.

Correct : D. sophists

67. Man is the measure of all things, says -----

Correct : B. protagoras

68. Maieutic means -----

Correct : A. midwifery

69. --- ?says that knowledge is an adjustment between the knower and the object known

Correct : C. protagoras

70. -----was known as a self- taught philosopher

Correct : C. socrates

71. Who was known as the street genius philosopher?

Correct : A. socrates

72. Who was the author of philosophic tendency and of a Philosophic method of irony?

Correct : A. socrates

73. Who said that the first step is to be wise is to admit that one is not wise.

Correct : C. socrates

74. According to ------, knowledge is virtue and ignorance is vice

Correct : D. socrates

75. Who said that as virtue is knowledge, so virtue can be thought?

Correct : C. socrates

76. The highest ideal according to Socrates is -----

Correct : D. virtue

77. Concept means ------

Correct : B. idea

78. The mentor of Aristotle is ---

Correct : A. plato

79. Who was the founder of Academy?

Correct : A. plato

80. Apology is the famous work of ---------

Correct : C. plato

81. The concepts lies in the transcendental world is the philosophy of --------

Correct : D. plato

82. Who distinguished knowledge and doxa?

Correct : A. plato

83. The theory of forms/ideas/concepts/essences is the Philosophy of -------

Correct : B. plato

84. Plato wrote ------ dialogues

Correct : C. 34

85. Who wrote Theaetetus?

Correct : C. plato

86. Who said that true knowledge lies in conceptual level?

Correct : B. aristotle

87. ------stated that the best possible political system (state) will be ruled by philosophers.

Correct : D. plato

88. Whose philosophy is that one who knows the difference between knowledge, ignorance, and opinion

Correct : B. plato

89. The perceptible world (i.e., the world we perceive through our senses) is a reflection or copy of that higher intelligible world is the philosophy of ------

Correct : A. plato

90. The Greek word for ?forms? in Plato is ---------

Correct : C. eidos

91. Plato divided human soul into -------parts

Correct : A. three

92. Plato?s Theory of Ideas was severely criticized by -------

Correct : C. aristotle

93. Plato admit the immortality of soul in his ---- dialogue

Correct : D. phaedo

94. ----------is a philosopher who was born at Stagira

Correct : A. aristotle

95. Which of the following philosopher who taught Alexander, the Great

Correct : D. aristotle

96. Which thinker who went to Athens and joined Plato?s Academy.

Correct : C. aristotle

97. The works of------ are divided into two types-exoteric and esoteric.

Correct : B. aristotle

98. Who wrote the famous work the Metaphysics?

Correct : A. aristotle

99. Who defined substance is something that we can point out as ?this?

Correct : C. aristotle

100. Who made the statement that Universals are extremely real but are not separable from their particulars.

Correct : D. aristotle