Ancient And Medieval Western Philosophy Set 3

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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 3

Q1 | According to Socrates knowledge is through -----------.
  • perception
  • concepts
  • both
  • none of these
Answer: concepts
Q2 | For Socrates knowledge is -----------
  • relative
  • universal
  • particular
  • absolute
Answer: universal
Q3 | According to Socrates ------------alone can take us to being.
  • percepts
  • concepts
  • inference
  • testimony
Answer: concepts
Q4 | ------------ believed in universal validity of knowledge.
  • socrates
  • sophists
  • parmenides
  • democritus
Answer: socrates
Q5 | Sophists failed to accommodate the role -----------plays in the formation ofknowledge
  • perception
  • reason
  • inference
  • none of these
Answer: reason
Q6 | ------------------ maintained that virtue is knowledge of the good through concepts.
  • anaximander
  • anaximenes
  • democritus
  • socrates
Answer: socrates
Q7 | ------------ claimed that real knowledge of justice, virtue are already present in man.
  • sophist
  • protagoras
  • socrates
  • anaximander
Answer: socrates
Q8 | According to ----------- knowledge is virtue and virtue is true knowledge
  • sophists
  • socrates
  • plato
  • aristotle
Answer: socrates
Q9 | From -------- Plato derived the doctrine of the eternity and changelessness of idea.
  • parmenides
  • heraclitus
  • pythagoras
  • protagoras
Answer: parmenides
Q10 | From------------Plato derived the notion of the immortality of the soul.
  • pythagoras
  • parmenides
  • heraclitus
  • protagoras
Answer: pythagoras
Q11 | From-------------Plato accepted the doctrine of the flux of sensible things.
  • heraclitus
  • socrates
  • parmenides
  • protagoras
Answer: heraclitus
Q12 | ------------ is the doctrine that universals have their own independent existence.
  • realism
  • conceptualism
  • nominalism
  • idealism
Answer: realism
Q13 | -------------- is the doctrine that universals are constructed by human mind.
  • realism
  • conceptualism
  • nominalism
  • idealism
Answer: conceptualism
Q14 | According to --------------- universals are mere words to think about class.
  • realism
  • nominalism
  • conceptualism
  • idealism
Answer: nominalism
Q15 | According to --------- virtue is one.
  • heraclitus
  • socrates
  • parmenides
  • protagoras
Answer: socrates
Q16 | The theory of Ideas is proposed by ------------ .
  • aristotle
  • plato
  • heraclitus
  • parmenides
Answer: plato
Q17 | ---------- is the element common to the Individual man and the idea of the man.
  • third man
  • first man
  • second man
  • last man
Answer: third man
Q18 | Which among the following is not a characteristic of idea.
  • universal
  • eternal
  • mutable
  • absolute
Answer: mutable
Q19 | Plato compares the Idea of the Good to that of --------.
  • star
  • sun
  • moon
  • none of these
Answer: sun
Q20 | He Idea of ----------- is the highest reality and it is the cause of truth andknowledge.
  • good
  • reason
  • beauty
  • logic
Answer: good
Q21 | ------------ period extends from 585 to the middle of the fifth century B.C.
  • pre-sophistic
  • socratic
  • sophistic
  • post- aristotelian
Answer: pre-sophistic
Q22 | The sophistic period is period of -----------
  • transition
  • reconstruction
  • decline
  • emergence
Answer: transition
Q23 | The socratic period is a period of --------------
  • transition
  • reconstruction
  • decline
  • emergence
Answer: reconstruction
Q24 | --------- period extends from 430 BC to 320 BC
  • socratic
  • sophistic
  • pre- sophistic
  • ethical
Answer: socratic
Q25 | The period from 585 to the middle of the fifth century B.C. is known as ------- .
  • post aristotelian
  • pre –sophistic
  • socratic
  • sophistic
Answer: pre –sophistic
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