Modern Western Philosophy Set 19

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This set of Modern Western Philosophy Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Modern Western Philosophy Set 19

Q1 | According to Kant, we ought to treat humanity
  • always only as an end
  • sometimes as an end
  • never simply as a means
  • always as a means
Answer: always only as an end
Q2 | According to Kant, moral law is
  • a priori, and based on reason
  • a priori, and not based on reason
  • a posteriori, and not based on reason
  • a posteriori, and based on reason
Answer: a priori, and based on reason
Q3 | A furtherprocess of synthesis is effected a priori by the three ideas of reason, namely,
  • Sense, object, knowledge
  • Intellect, intuition, cognition
  • World, soul, God
  • Mind, body, absolute
Answer: World, soul, God
Q4 | The philosopher who put forward the dialectical method is:
  • Descartes
  • Kant
  • Hegel
  • Spinoza
Answer: Hegel
Q5 | According to Hegel, there are three stages in the logical development of spirit: subjective mind,objective mind and …..
  • Absolute God
  • Absolute mind
  • Absolute Spirit
  • Absolute idea
Answer: Absolute Spirit
Q6 | Which method is the proper method of philosophy, according to Hegel, is determined by thesubject matter of philosophy itself
  • The synthetical
  • the analytical
  • the dialectical
  • the geometrical
Answer: the dialectical
Q7 | The Absolute for Hegel is
  • Substance
  • Soul
  • God
  • Idea
Answer: Idea
Q8 | The real is the rational, and the rational is the real’ is the doctrine of
  • Fichte
  • Schelling
  • Kant
  • Hegel
Answer: Hegel
Q9 | Having shown that metaphysics is unproved and speculative at best, Kant goes on to arguethat
  • Rather than studying speculative metaphysics to learn about sense perceptions, we ought to study sense perceptions in order to learn about metaphysics.
  • We ought to study metaphysics as a science because it asks good questions.
  • We ought to waste time with that of which we know nothing
  • Metaphysics can only be known innately
Answer: We ought to study metaphysics as a science because it asks good questions.
Q10 | What do we directly observe, according to David Hume?
  • Physical objects
  • Sense impressions
  • Ourselves
  • Our brains
Answer: Sense impressions
Q11 | Absolute Idealism is advocated by
  • John Locke
  • George Berkley
  • Immanuel Kant
  • Hegel
Answer: Hegel
Q12 | According to Absolute Idealism, what is the relationship between being real and beingknowable?
  • No reality is knowable
  • All reality is knowable
  • Some reality is knowable and some isn’t
  • Only God is ultimately unknowable.
Answer: All reality is knowable
Q13 | There is the final movement in which the spirit reduces Nature to the inwardness, which thespirit itself is. Only at this stage the spirit rises to self-consciousness in man. According to Hegel this stage is ………
  • Thesis
  • anti-thesis
  • Synthesis
  • Contradiction
Answer: Synthesis
Q14 | For Hegel, Idea means
  • Concrete particular
  • Concrete universal
  • Abstract particular
  • Abstract universal
Answer: Concrete universal
Q15 | According to the Absolute Idealism of Hegel
  • There is only one reality
  • Reality is relative
  • There are many realities
  • All of these
Answer: There is only one reality
Q16 | What is the highest reality (the Absolute), for Hegel?
  • The entire material world
  • A God who exists beyond the world
  • Infinite thought thinking itself
  • A vast group of independent particulars
Answer: Infinite thought thinking itself
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