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This set of Classical Western Philosophy Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Classical Western Philosophy Set 4

Q1 | --- –says that knowledge is an adjustment between the knower and theobject known
  • plato
  • aristotle
  • protagoras
  • st.anselm
Q2 | -----was known as a self- taught philosopher
  • anaximander
  • plato
  • socrates
  • st. augustine
Q3 | Who was known as the street genius philosopher?
  • socrates
  • plato
  • aristotle
  • pythagoras
Q4 | Who was the author of philosophic tendency and of a Philosophicmethod of irony?
  • socrates
  • aquinas
  • plato
  • protagoras
Q5 | Who said that the first step is to be wise is to admit that one is not wise.
  • plato
  • anselm
  • socrates
  • thales
Q6 | According to ------, knowledge is virtue and ignorance is vice
  • thales
  • plato
  • pythagoras
  • socrates
Q7 | Who said that as virtue is knowledge, so virtue can be thought?
  • leucippus
  • protagoras
  • socrates
  • aristotle
Q8 | The highest ideal according to Socrates is -----
  • matter
  • dialectical
  • statement
  • virtue
Q9 | Concept means ------
  • judgment
  • idea
  • virtue
  • particular
Q10 | The mentor of Aristotle is ---
  • plato
  • socrates
  • academy
  • lyceum
Q11 | Who was the founder of Academy?
  • plato
  • aristotle
  • socrates
  • protagoras
Q12 | Apology is the famous work of ---------
  • socrates
  • thales
  • plato
  • sartre
Q13 | The concepts lies in the transcendental world is the philosophy of --------
  • socrates
  • pythagoras
  • aristotle
  • plato
Q14 | Who distinguished knowledge and doxa?
  • plato
  • socrates
  • aristotle
  • kant
Q15 | The theory of forms/ideas/concepts/essences is the Philosophy of -------
  • aristotle
  • plato
  • thales
  • pythagoras
Q16 | Plato wrote ------ dialogues
  • 37
  • 24
  • 34
  • 35
Q17 | Who wrote Theaetetus?
  • thales
  • aristotle
  • plato
  • anaxagoras
Q18 | Who said that true knowledge lies in conceptual level?
  • plato
  • aristotle
  • protagoras
  • anaximander
Q19 | ------stated that the best possible political system (state) will be ruled byphilosophers.
  • aristotle
  • sophists
  • socrates
  • plato
Q20 | Whose philosophy is that one who knows the difference betweenknowledge, ignorance, and opinion
  • leucippus
  • plato
  • socrates
  • aristotle
Q21 | The perceptible world (i.e., the world we perceive through our senses) isa reflection or copy of that higher intelligible world is the philosophy of ------
  • plato
  • anaxagoras
  • aristotle
  • socrates
Q22 | The Greek word for “forms” in Plato is --------- (a)hyle (b) logos (c) eidos (d) philos98 Plato divided human soul into -------parts
  • three
  • two
  • four
  • all are false
Q23 | Plato’s Theory of Ideas was severely criticized by -------
  • protogoras
  • socrates
  • aristotle
  • all is true
Q24 | Plato admit the immortality of soul in his ---- dialogue
  • apology
  • republic
  • theaetetus
  • phaedo
Q25 | ----------is a philosopher who was born at Stagira
  • aristotle
  • plato
  • socrates
  • thles