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This set of Modern Western Philosophy Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Modern Western Philosophy Set 13

Q1 | The view that knowledge is attained through sense experience is called:
  • Idealism
  • Positivism
  • Rationalism
  • Empiricism
Q2 | Which among the following is the characteristic of Modern Philosophy
  • A revolt against authority and tradition
  • Demand for freedom in thought, feeling, and action
  • Scientific
  • All of the above
Q3 | Who authored ‘Essay on Human Understanding’
  • Rene Descartes
  • John Locke
  • Immanuel Kant
  • David Hume
Q4 | Modern philosophy began in
  • Renaissance
  • The Enlightenment
  • The idealistic period
  • Natural Science Period
Q5 | The father of modern western philosophy
  • Aristotle
  • Socrates
  • Descartes
  • Spinoza
Q6 | Descartes advocated the philosophy of:
  • Pluralism
  • Empiricism
  • Dualism
  • Idealism
Q7 | Descartes is a
  • skeptic
  • empiricist
  • rationalist
  • All of the above
Q8 | The concept of innate ideas is put forward by:
  • Spinoza
  • Leibniz
  • Kant
  • Descartes
Q9 | …………. Is advocated theory of interactionism
  • Descartes
  • Pre-established harmony
  • Berkeley
  • Kant
Q10 | According to Descartes, the Absolute substance refers to:
  • God
  • Mind
  • Matter
  • Mind and Matter
Q11 | According to Descartes, the idea of God is :
  • Adventitious
  • fictitious
  • Demonstrative
  • Innate
Q12 | Which one of the following views is held by Descartes?
  • Mind and body are the two substances which exist independently of each other
  • Mind is the only substance and matter is only a fiction
  • Mind is the only substance and matter is only a fiction
  • Matter is the only substance and mind is one of its modes of existence
Q13 | Which one of the following statements adequately sums up Descartes’ philosophy?
  • Mind and matter are two aspects of the same reality
  • The world is made of two radically different kinds of substance, mind and matter.
  • Matter alone is real and mind is only an illusion.
  • Mind creates matter
Q14 | Which one of the following types of substances is NOT admitted by Descartes?
  • Infinite and uncreated
  • Perpetually changing
  • Finite and spiritual
  • Finite and material
Q15 | In order to escape …………………, Descartes has introduced the idea of God
  • Spiritualism
  • Solipsism
  • Empiricism
  • Dualism
Q16 | The rationalist philosopher …………. wants to give philosophy a stable character like mathematics.
  • Descartes
  • Kant
  • Spinoza
  • Leibnitz
Q17 | .......... defines substance as “ an existent thing which requires nothing but itself in order to exist”.
  • Spinoza
  • Locke
  • Descartes
  • Hume
Q18 | Descartes claims God as the …………..substance, and mind and matter as ……… substance.
  • absolute , created
  • absolute, finite
  • Only, created
  • created, absolute
Q19 | Descartes suggests ……………… as absolute substance
  • God
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • All of these
Q20 | Which one of the following statements is NOT supported by Descartes?
  • Mind and matter are independent substance
  • Mind and matter are two separate substances alongside God.
  • Mind and matter are inter-related to one another
  • Mind and matter are both identical
Q21 | The doctrine of Occassionalism advocated by
  • Descartes
  • Malebranche
  • Spinoza
  • Leibnitz
Q22 | Which one of the following statements is entitled by Descartes’ cogito ergo sum?
  • Only I exist
  • Only God exists
  • I exist while I think
  • Only matter exists
Q23 | Descartes recognizes mind and matter as ……. substances which are created by God.
  • Absolute
  • Relative
  • Neutral
  • Real
Q24 | Descartes suggests mind and matter are ………..
  • Opposed on each other
  • Dependent on each other
  • Independent of each other
  • None of the above
Q25 | Descartes advocates …………..by admitting mind and matter as two substances
  • Dualism
  • Individualism
  • Rationalism
  • None of these