Modern Western Philosophy Set 2
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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