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This set of Modern Western Philosophy Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Modern Western Philosophy Set 9

Q1 | ‘All our reasoning about causality is derived from nothing but custom’. This relates to -----
  • Kant
  • Hegel
  • Leibniz
  • Hume
Q2 | Kant’s Rational theology deals with ---------
  • The idea of God
  • Unity of self
  • The idea of world
  • None of these
Q3 | Who among the following is an Idealist philosopher
  • Descartes
  • Kant
  • Locke
  • None of these
Q4 | Descartes took -------- as the model of his philosophical method
  • Religion
  • Mathematics
  • Sociology
  • Arts
Q5 | ------ is not a secondary quality according to Locke
  • Taste
  • Coluor
  • Extension
  • None of these
Q6 | ‘Real is Rational, Rational is Real’ is the concept of ----------
  • Locke
  • Leibniz
  • Spinoza
  • Hegel
Q7 | Who is considered as the father of modern philosophy
  • Kant
  • Descartes
  • Both (a) and (b)
  • Neither (a) nor (b)
Q8 | According to Kant --------- judgments are always a priori
  • Synthetic
  • Ethical
  • Analytical
  • None of these
Q9 | Which one of the following is a primary quality according to Locke
  • Colour
  • Figure
  • Extension
  • None of these
Q10 | Tabula rasa refers to --------
  • Empty cabinet
  • Subtle emotion
  • Knowledge
  • None of these
Q11 | Kant’s Rational cosmology deals with ----------
  • Unity of self
  • The idea of God
  • The idea of one world
  • All these
Q12 | Which one of the following is a work of Kant
  • Ethics
  • Monadology
  • Critique of pure reason
  • All of these
Q13 | Psycho physical parallelism is a theory of -----
  • Descartes
  • Leibniz
  • Spinoza
  • None of these
Q14 | Hegel developed his philosophy on the foundation laid by -------
  • Descartes
  • Fichte
  • Aristotle
  • None of these
Q15 | Kant’s Rational Psychology deals with ------
  • The idea of world
  • The idea of God
  • Unity of self
  • None of these
Q16 | -------- is the method adopted by Kant
  • Inductive
  • Deductive
  • Empirical
  • Transcendental
Q17 | --------- is a mind body theory of Descartes
  • Psycho physical parallelism
  • Interactionism
  • Pre-established harmony
  • All these
Q18 | According to Kant , knowledge of things – in –itself is called -------
  • Phenomena
  • Substance
  • Noumena
  • None of these
Q19 | Modern western philosophers unlike the medieval thinkers were critical about ___________.
  • scientific advance
  • dogmatic theology
  • rationalism
  • all these
Q20 | Transcendentalism 3. Descartes4. Dialectical materialism 4. Hegel
  • 4, 2, 3,1
  • 1, 3, 4, 2
  • 2, 4, 3, 1
  • 3, 4, 1, 2
Q21 | Modernism marked a clear shift ___________.
  • from faith to reason
  • from reason to faith
  • from science to religion
  • from religion to science
Q22 | European __________ is subdivided into the Humanistic and the Natural Science period.
  • Philosophy
  • Theology
  • Renaissance
  • None of these
Q23 | Modern western philosophers showed increased interest in ___________.
  • theology
  • scientific inquiry
  • astronomy
  • all these
Q24 | In the ___________ era, freedom of thought and rational inquiry became the watchwords ofphilosophy.
  • ancient
  • classical
  • medieval
  • modern
Q25 | _____________ is considered as the father of modern western philosophy as well as rationalism
  • Descartes
  • Kant
  • Hume
  • Socrates