Ancient And Medieval Western Philosophy Set 2

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This set of Ancient and Medieval Western Philosophy Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Ancient And Medieval Western Philosophy Set 2

Q1 | ----------- was a contemporary of Parmenides.
  • heraclitus
  • pythagoreans
  • eleatics
  • parmenides
Answer: heraclitus
Q2 | According to ------------- everything in the universe has in it its own opposites.
  • heraclitus
  • pythagoreans
  • eleatics
  • parmenides
Answer: heraclitus
Q3 | According to Heraclitus the ultimate kind of matter is -------- .
  • water
  • fire
  • air
  • none of these
Answer: fire
Q4 | The Ionian thinkers were --------- .
  • dualistic
  • monistic
  • pluralistic
  • none of these
Answer: monistic
Q5 | The Greek thinkers who drew our attension to proportion, order and harmony are--------- .
  • pythagoreans
  • eleatics
  • heraclitus
  • parmenides
Answer: pythagoreans
Q6 | ------------------- laid emphasis on vegetarianism.
  • pythagoreans
  • eleatics
  • heraclitus
  • parmenides
Answer: pythagoreans
Q7 | ------------------------laid emphasis on asceticism.
  • pythagoreans
  • eleatics
  • heraclitus
  • parmenides
Answer: pythagoreans
Q8 | ------------------ practiced a reformed kind of orphic religion.
  • pythagoreans
  • eleatics
  • heraclitus
  • parmenides
Answer: pythagoreans
Q9 | -------------------- founded an order in which men and women were consideredequal.
  • pythagoras
  • eleatics
  • heraclitus
  • parmenides
Answer: pythagoras
Q10 | According to -------------- the earth revolves round the central fire.
  • heracletus
  • eleatics
  • parmenides
  • pythagoreans
Answer: pythagoreans
Q11 | Truth lies in reason and not in the world of sense is the fundamental position of------ .
  • realism
  • materialism
  • idealism
  • none of these
Answer: idealism
Q12 | For ------- there is no past, no present, no future.
  • being
  • not-being
  • both
  • none of these
Answer: being
Q13 | Pre – sophistic philosophy is -----------because it conceived nature as animate oralive.
  • naturalistic
  • ontological
  • monistic
  • hylozoistic
Answer: hylozoistic
Q14 | Pre – sophistic philosophy is -----------because its attension is directed to nature.
  • naturalistic
  • ontological
  • monistic
  • hylozoistic
Answer: naturalistic
Q15 | Pre – sophistic philosophy is ----------- , it enquires into the essence of things.
  • naturalistic
  • ontological
  • monistic
  • hylozoistic
Answer: ontological
Q16 | Pre – sophistic philosophy is ----------- it seeks to explain phenomena by singleprinciple
  • naturalistic
  • ontological
  • monistic
  • hylozoistic
Answer: monistic
Q17 | Protagoras and Gorgias were ----------
  • sophists
  • philosophers
  • sages
  • none of these
Answer: sophists
Q18 | “Man is the measure of all things” is the famous teachings of ------------- .
  • socrates
  • sophists
  • protagoras
  • gorgias
Answer: protagoras
Q19 | For------------- knowledge is perception.
  • protagoras
  • socrates
  • plato
  • aristotle
Answer: protagoras
Q20 | Homo mensura is the famous saying by
  • socrates
  • plato
  • aristotle
  • protagoras
Answer: protagoras
Q21 | According to ------------ even if there is anything we cannot know it.
  • gorgias
  • aistotle
  • plato
  • socrates
Answer: gorgias
Q22 | Protagoras was influenced by ---------- in propounding his epistemology.
  • leucippus
  • democritus
  • gorgias
  • socrates
Answer: democritus
Q23 | ------------- deny the universality of knowledge.
  • socrates
  • sophists
  • plato
  • none of these
Answer: sophists
Q24 | According to sophists ----------- can give us only relative knowledge.
  • reason
  • perception
  • inference
  • none of these
Answer: perception
Q25 | Which one of the following is not a dialogue by Plato
  • meno
  • republic
  • phaedo
  • poetics
Answer: poetics
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