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This set of Modern Western Philosophy Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Modern Western Philosophy Set 15

Q1 | According to Spinoza, body and mind
  • Are causally independent
  • interact with each other
  • are parallel to each other
  • are providentially synchronized by God
Q2 | The view that one may consider God both as Naturanaturans and Natruanaturata is maintainedby:
  • Thomas Aquinas
  • Spinoza
  • Leibnitz
  • Berkeley
Q3 | The fundamental property of substance is known as:
  • Modes
  • Attribute
  • Thought
  • Extension
Q4 | …….. declares that there are no substances other than God.
  • Spinoza
  • Kant
  • Hume
  • Locke
Q5 | Who declares that there are no substances other than God
  • Spinoza
  • Kant
  • Hume
  • Locke
Q6 | Spinoza is an advocate of
  • Dualism
  • Pantheism
  • Materialism
  • Empiricism
Q7 | What did Benedict Spinoza think a person is
  • a mode of God/Nature
  • an immaterial mind
  • a physical body
  • an immaterial mind in a physical body.
Q8 | ‘There can only one substance which is causasui (cause of itself) and this single substance mustbe identified with the universe a whole. This unique all inclusive totality is therefore God or Nature’ whose statement?
  • Hegel
  • Marx
  • Hume
  • Spinoza
Q9 | The position of psycho-physical parallelism is advocated by:
  • Descartes
  • Spinoza
  • Leibniz
  • Locke.
Q10 | God according to Leibniz is:
  • Central Monad
  • Queen Monad
  • Soul Monad
  • Monad of Monads
Q11 | Monadology is the famous work of:
  • Descartes
  • Spinoza
  • Leibniz
  • Berkeley
Q12 | A monad is explained as:
  • Physical atom
  • Unit of force
  • Matter
  • Mind
Q13 | Leibniz advocated the theory of:
  • Interactionism
  • Pre-established harmony
  • Parallelism
  • Monism
Q14 | Doctrine of monads is advocated by:
  • Spinoza
  • Leibniz
  • Berkeley
  • Hume
Q15 | For Leibnitz, monad is windowless because
  • It is absolutely free from external influence
  • It is extended
  • It is composite body
  • It is something material
Q16 | …………. Admits innumerable monads or spiritual atoms
  • Leibnitz
  • Hume
  • Berkeley
  • Locke
Q17 | .............. thinks that substance is to be defined by active force
  • Spinoza
  • Hume
  • Descartes
  • Leibnitz
Q18 | The monads are …… and everything is potential or implicit in it
  • Very strong
  • active
  • Windowless
  • None of these
Q19 | Which among is NOT correct regarding monads
  • Windowless
  • Spiritual
  • Perceive each other
  • Active force
Q20 | Leibnitz defines substance or ‘monad’ as
  • Active force
  • physical object
  • mental object
  • none of these
Q21 | Every monad is a …… of the universe which generates the images of things by its own activity
  • Clear aspect
  • definite explanation
  • Living mirror
  • none of these
Q22 | Leibnitz philosophy is
  • Monistic
  • Dualistic
  • Pluralistic
  • Materialistic
Q23 | Which among the following is NOT applicable to Leibnitz
  • God is the creator of harmony
  • Extension is real
  • The monads are eternal and can be destroyed only by miracle on the part of God.
  • No monad has any part and therefore is truly indivisible.
Q24 | Leibnitz claims that there is only a …….. between soul and body, instituted by God
  • Complete substance
  • Complete correspondence
  • Complete interactionism
  • All of these
Q25 | Mind is a ‘tabula rasa’ according to:
  • Berkeley
  • Locke
  • Descartes
  • Spinoza