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

Q1 | --- recognizes mind and matter as relative substances which are created by God
  • kant
  • descartes
  • leibniz
  • hegel
Q2 | ----- believes that there are no innate ideas in the mind
  • plato
  • spinoza
  • kant
  • locke
Q3 | Who among the following is obsessed with the intellectual love of God?
  • spinoza
  • leibniz
  • kant
  • descartes
Q4 | Who said ‘substance is a product of human imagination’
  • spinoza
  • descartes
  • locke
  • hume
Q5 | -------suggests that the idea of substance is a complexidea
  • spinoza
  • berkeley
  • hume
  • locke
Q6 | According to ---------- , only mind and their ideas exist
  • hume
  • leibniz
  • spinoza
  • berkeley
Q7 | According to ----- God is an absolute substance
  • kant
  • descartes
  • plato
  • none of these
Q8 | ’Ethics’ is the work of ---------
  • descartes
  • leibniz
  • spinoza
  • hegel
Q9 | Berkeley rejects Locke’s distinction between primary and secondary qualities because:
  • all qualities are subjective
  • only secondary qualities are subjective
  • qualities are created by god
  • qualities in here in substance
Q10 | For Descartes, the idea of soul
  • is not related to reason
  • is identical with reason
  • contradicts reason
  • does not contradict reason
Q11 | According to Kant belief in God is:
  • accidental to ethics
  • totally irrelevant to ethics
  • contingent to ethics
  • a presupposition of ethics
Q12 | For Descartes the proposition ‘I think’ is self-verifying because
  • it is a necessary truth.
  • it is a logical truth.
  • doubting it confirms it.
  • thinking is my essence.
Q13 | The primary aim of Descartes is
  • to explain the relation between body and mind.
  • to prove the existence of god.
  • to refute the reality of the external world.
  • to reach clear and certain knowledge.
Q14 | Who called God as Natura Naturata?
  • locke
  • kant
  • spinoza
  • hume
Q15 | Who said that ‘Reason must approach nature not as a pupil, but as a judge’?
  • kant
  • locke
  • hegel
  • spinoza
Q16 | According to Kant _________ the proper objects of faith
  • phenomena
  • noumena
  • both phenomena and noumena
  • neither
Q17 | Which one of the following is not the work of Immanuel Kant?
  • critique of pure reason
  • foundations of metaphysics of morals
  • critique of practical reason
  • the phenomenology of spirit
Q18 | Who highlighted the problem of personal identity first in modern western philosophy?
  • berkeley
  • locke
  • spinoza
  • descartes
Q19 | The concept of categories was advocated by :
  • kant
  • kant and aristotle
  • kant and locke
  • kant and berkeley
Q20 | Who among the following held that space and time are apriori percepts ?
  • pythagoras
  • spinoza
  • kant
  • hegel
Q21 | According to Descartes, the idea of God is -------
  • finite
  • fictitious
  • innate
  • none of these
Q22 | According to Descartes, the infinite substance stands related to finite substanceas ----- to -----
  • universal, particular
  • many, one
  • one, particular
  • none of these
Q23 | Who has said that the mind has innate ideas
  • hume
  • berkeley
  • leibniz
  • none of these
Q24 | The secondary properties of substance are known as
  • attributes
  • modes
  • relative property
  • none of these
Q25 | Spinoza claims that the things which make up the world related toGod as the properties of ------ to its concepts
  • quality
  • theorem
  • geometrical figure
  • none of these