Classical Western Philosophy Set 2

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This set of Classical Western Philosophy Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Classical Western Philosophy Set 2

Q1 | The Republic is the famous work of ---------
  • socrates
  • thales
  • plato
  • sartre
Answer: plato
Q2 | Theory of truth lies in the theory of Ideas is the philosophy of
  • socrates
  • pythagoras
  • aristotle
  • plato
Answer: plato
Q3 | Who distinguished world of ideas and physical world?
  • plato
  • socrates
  • aristotle
  • kant
Answer: plato
Q4 | Aristotle mentioned theory of truth in his work------
  • analytic
  • ethics
  • epistemology
  • metaphysics
Answer: metaphysics
Q5 | For Plato, ---- are eternal ideas beyond the physical world.
  • forms
  • dialectics
  • phenomenon
  • episteme
Answer: forms
Q6 | Who wrote Symposium?
  • thales
  • aristotle
  • plato
  • anaxagoras
Answer: plato
Q7 | Aristotle was a student of ---
  • plato
  • socrates
  • protagoras
  • anaximander
Answer: plato
Q8 | Who founded a school in Athens called Lyceum.
  • aristotle
  • plato
  • socrates
  • sophists
Answer: aristotle
Q9 | “There is no form without matter and no matter without form.”
  • leucippus
  • plato
  • socrates
  • aristotle
Answer: aristotle
Q10 | Matter is the substance out of which everything in the world is made isthe statement of -----
  • anaxagoras
  • plato
  • aristotle
  • socrates
Answer: aristotle
Q11 | Who discovered four causes that govern change in everything?
  • plato
  • aristotle
  • st.augustine
  • st.anselm
Answer: aristotle
Q12 | Who believed that God created the world out of nothing and before Godcreated the world nothing existed?
  • anaximander
  • plato
  • socrates
  • st. augustine
Answer: st. augustine
Q13 | The City of God is the work of ----
  • st. augustine
  • plato
  • aristotle
  • pythagoras
Answer: st. augustine
Q14 | Who said that through faith and reason together we could reach“natural theological truth.”
  • socrates
  • st.thomas aquinas
  • moralist
  • atomist
Answer: st.thomas aquinas
Q15 | Summa Theologica is the work of ---------
  • plato
  • st. anselm
  • st. thomas aquinas
  • thale
Answer: st. thomas aquinas
Q16 | ------- predicted an eclipse of the sun
  • thales
  • pythagoras
  • socrates
  • plato
Answer: thales
Q17 | Who was the first Milesian materialist philosopher?
  • heraclitus
  • anaximander
  • pythagoras
  • thales
Answer: thales
Q18 | The major source of Thales’s philosophy is by
  • plato
  • pythagoras
  • socrates
  • aristotle
Answer: aristotle
Q19 | Who said that living things are always moist?
  • plato
  • socrates
  • tales
  • anaximander
Answer: tales
Q20 | Anaximander belongs to --------
  • stagira
  • miletus
  • samos
  • all are false
Answer: miletus
Q21 | The Milesian philosophers were known as ………………………..
  • natural philosophers
  • rationalists
  • empiricists
  • atomists
Answer: natural philosophers
Q22 | Anaximander, a philosopher came after ------
  • anaximenes
  • plato
  • socrates
  • thales
Answer: thales
Q23 | apeiron in Anaximander means -----
  • formal logic
  • infinite
  • eidos
  • hyle
Answer: infinite
Q24 | Anaximander's cosmogony gives rise to a
  • heliocentric
  • teleological
  • geocentric
  • god
Answer: geocentric
Q25 | Who said that in the beginning man was similar to a different animal,namely, a fish.
  • anaximander
  • leucippus
  • pythagoras
  • thales
Answer: anaximander
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